The Kandy Kids, a team of seven Brewer fifth graders, will visit with researchers at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, Thursday, April 28, from 3:45 – 4:30. They will work with UMaine engineers to testing a structure they built on the way to winning the State of Maine Destination Imagination Challenge.
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Five University of Maine students participated in a recent launch process as a rocket loaded with wireless sensors the students developed in a UMaine lab blasted off in California’s Mojave Desert. The students, working under UMaine electrical and computer engineering Associate Professor Ali Abedi, collaborated on the NASA-funded project with faculty and student researchers at […]
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A Camden firm which is a member of the UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium received earlier this month a $500,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute, the Village Soup website noted. WindFloat Maine LLC will use the grant to help fund the development of a floating foundation for deepwater offshore wind turbines, a project being developed at […]
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A Forbes Magazine blogger has a post about the lobster shell golf balls developed at UMaine by engineering professor David Neivandt and his student, Alex Caddell of Winterport. Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742
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ORONO — Six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology (MET) students will square off for competition Wednesday, April 27, to see which of six distinctive pill-crushing devices work best, as part of an annual Senior Design Competition.
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The Boston Globe ran on Monday a story linking the lobster shell golf balls engineered at UMaine with the revival of the practice of hitting golf balls off of cruise ships, which was banned in around 1988. The Globe story included interviews with UMaine engineering professor Dave Neivandt and UMaine-based Lobster Institute Executive Director Bob […]
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Maine Public Radio broadcast a report about golf balls made from lobster shells, a UMaine innovation that’s getting widespread international news media attention. The story includes comments from Engineering Prof. David Neivandt, his student Alex Cadell and Lobster Institute Executive Director Bob Bayer. The story notes that that those involved with the project envision the […]
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The website Mental Floss is featuring in its Number of the Day section a story about UMaine-engineered lobster shell golf balls. The web post says there were 100,000 golf balls discovered submerged in Scotland’s Loch Ness in 2009, and links that number to the lobster shell golf balls, which are completely biodegradable and designed for […]
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The University of Maine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced winners of this year’s second annual Undergraduate Research & Academic Showcase held last week. Nine awards were made after consideration of more than 50 research projects presented as end-of-the year capstone exhibits or displays. The research represents disciplines from across campus.
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The website Geek.com noted the lobster shell golf ball project that UMaine engineer David Neivandt and student Alex Caddell worked on recently. The golf balls are made discarded lobster shells and are entirely biodegradable. Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742
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