Contact: Rita Cooper, (207) 329-6320 or president.ewb.um@gmail.com The University of Maine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UMaine) is urgently seeking donations to fund the construction of a community sanitation system in the small town of Dulce Vivir, Honduras, where poor sanitation conditions limit economic opportunities of the residents and cause environmental and health concerns. […]
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Contact: Ashish Deshpande, (207) 581-2180; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO – Medical science and engineering technology have taken great strides toward the development of prosthetic hands since the implementation of steel hooks, and a University of Maine researcher in the College of Engineering is pushing the envelope revolutionizing hand prosthetics with novel robotics technology. Mechanical […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a guest column by UMaine engineering grad student Ali Shareef. The column, published in cooperation with the Islamic Center of Maine in Orono, discusses issues related to the perception of Muslims in the U.S. and other parts of the world.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a front-page story about a Friday event unveiling a NASA lunar habitat that’s been assembled at UMaine for research work in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The UMaine research will focus on the wireleess sensor technology that would be vital to monitoring conditions and protecting the astronauts who […]
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ROCKLAND–A generous donation from the family of the late Matthew R. Simmons, the founder and chair of the Ocean Energy Institute (OEI), along with all the gifts from friends and colleagues given to OEI in his memory, will create opportunities for the University of Maine to further the OEI objectives rooted in his visionary perspectives on […]
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Contact: Elizabeth Viselli, Associate Program Manager Advanced Structures and Composites Center DeepCwind Consortium 207-221-5639 elizabeth.viselli@umit.maine.edu 207-581-2831 Contact: Sue Jones, Conference Coordinator sue@communityenergypartners.com ORONO — The University of Maine will present an exciting addition to the Maine Wind Working Group’s Maine Wind Energy Conference, scheduled for next week in Augusta. The wind energy track, scheduled for […]
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UMaine’s Lunar Habitat, Wireless Sensing Laboratory Opening Friday Contact: Ali Abedi, (207) 581-2231 or abedi@eece.maine.edu The world’s first inflatable lunar habitat, which was assembled on the University of Maine campus last fall and will be a test site for NASA as it prepares for voyages to the moon, Mars and Venus, will be unveiled Friday […]
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Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins issued a joint statement announcing a $512,736 National Science Foundation grant to support prosthetic robotic hand research under the supervision of UMaine engineering professor Ashish Deshpande.
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Contact: Vicky Blanchette at (207) 581-2204 The Maine Coalition, comprising Challenger Learning Center of Maine, Maine Discovery Museum and University of Maine College of Engineering, has been chosen by WGBH/NOVA and the Materials Research Society to present a series of local events on nano and materials science as part of the four-part Making Stuff NOVA […]
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Comments from Dean Dana Humphrey of UMaine’s College of Engineering are included in a Thursday Portland Press Herald story about a Wednesday Portland forum on the “technical revolution” and Maine’s economic future. Humphrey notes that the UMaine college is at record enrollment levels, but it is not able to educate enough engineers to meet the […]
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