UMaine News

Television stations WABI and WLBZ/WCSH broadcast Thursday reports about a bridge construction project in Belfast.  The Perkins Bridge is being replaced using bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

The ongoing Belfast bridge project using technology developed by UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center is highlighted in a Bangor Daily News story. The bridge-in-a-backpack technology has also been used in Pittsfield, Anson and Hermon.

Please Contact:  Roberta Laverty, AEWC, (207) 581-2110 Mylan Bannon, AIT, (207) 735-7399 BELFAST – The Perkins Bridge in Belfast is going high tech. The 28’ bridge has been carrying motorists across the Little River since 1921.   But, wear and tear on the deteriorating bridge has forced the state to consider a more durable option to […]

Maine Ahead magazine features an extensive profile of Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.  The story focuses primarily on offshore wind technology initiatives at the center, but also features background on Dagher himself and a sidebar about bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed there.

Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, commented in a Thursday WABI television story about the installation of a new bridge in Hermon.  The structure uses “bridge in a backpack” technology developed under Dagher’s direction at the UMaine center.  UMaine spinoff company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies is working with a local construction […]

Several UMaine initiatives, such as research into tidal power and the use of composites in bridge-building, were on display last week for attendees of the two-day Atlantica conference held in the Bangor area, according to a Mainebiz story. The conference, which drew more than 100 people from the U.S. and Canada, aims to promote increased […]

An extensive online report in the Chautauquan Daily, the official newspaper of the Chautauqua Institution, describes a Tuesday presentation by Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.  Dagher, speaking as part of the institution’s “Powering the Future” lecture series, described the potential for deep offshore wind power and talked about the […]

University of Maine engineering student Ashley Bailey is interviewed about Maine’s farming tradition in a story about the Union Fair.

UMaine mechanical engineering professor Mick Peterson is quoted in a Los Angeles Times report and several other stories about a Thursday California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) ruling.  The group decided against the Oak Tree Racing Association’s proposal to use the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, Cal. for fall facing.  CHRB engaged Peterson to assess […]

Contact: Ali Abedi, 581-2231 orabedi@ieee.org ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine will host this month representatives from the government, academic community and aerospace industry companies to discuss future uses of wireless technology in the aerospace industry, and how the technology can be applied to commercial aviation, during the CANEUS Fly-By-Wireless Workshop. The conference will […]