The website Azorobotics.com has an item about the work UMaine’s Ashish Deshpande is doing to develop an advanced robotic prosthetic hand. Deshpande, a mechanical engineering professor, recently won a $512,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research.
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Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2138 or hd@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been issued a patent (US Patent #7,862,675) for a method of prestressing glued-laminated timber beams that significantly increases the strength of the wood for use in bridges and other structures. Associate Professor of civil engineering Mac Gray […]
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Mainebiz has a report about a patent awarded to UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The center has invented a method to strengthen glulam wood beams, something researchers have been studying for five years. The center’s method involves the application of a strip of fiberglass, which increases by 38 percent the strength of beams […]
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Several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News, reported on new technology for strengthening wood glulam beams for which UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center was recently awarded a patent. AEWC Director Habib Dagher and Professor Mac Gray were interviewed by the BDN and Bangor television station WABI included comments from UMaine graduate student […]
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WLBZ reported on the Tuesday’s Nano Expo, which took place on the UMaine campus. The event, which drew more than 200 students and teachers from three area middle schools, is part of UMaine’s “Making Stuff” collaboration with Boston public television station WGBH, the Challenger Learning Center and the Maine Discovery Museum, and introduces students to […]
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Comments from retired UMaine mechanical engineering professor Dick Hill are included in an extensive Lewiston Sun Journal story about issues related to home heating oil use and Maine’s economy. Hill points out that “social adjustments” are part of the solution, noting that Americans have more residential space per person than people who live in other […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a front-page story about UMaine Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) project involving the development of wireless sensor technology for use in the jet engine maintenance industry and with particular relevance for military applications. The sensors are built to allow technicians to monitor the condition of engines and their […]
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An article on the Feb. 1 edition of the Bangor Daily News about SnapSpace Solutions Inc., a business opening in Brewer to create novel homes out of shipping containers, cited collaboration by the company owner and the University of Maine’s Knowledge Transfer Alliance and the UMaine Advanced Manufacturing Center. The newspaper carried a story Feb. […]
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Contact: Deborah Kelley, (207) 990-7604; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — After nearly 10 years in research, development and testing, engineers and scientists in the University of Maine’s interdisciplinary Laboratory for Surface Science & Technology (LASST) have created state-of-the-art wireless high-temperature sensors able to withstand temperatures of up to at least 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit — […]
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The UMaine branch of the national group Engineers Without Borders was the focus of a Bangor Daily News story about the group’s effort to raise funds for the completion of a new public works project in Honduras. The story noted the urgent nature of the fundraising effort as students need to have money in place […]
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