Carlton Brown, 581-2781 ORONO — The University of Maine’s team of surveying engineering students recently won second place in the National Society of Professional Surveyors’ 10th annual student competition in Las Vegas. As part of the competition, held in conjunction with the California Land Surveyors and Nevada Association of Land Surveyors joint conference, seven student […]
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Comments from Bruce Segee of the UMaine electrical and computer engineering faculty are included in a front-page Mainebiz story about efforts to leverage cyberinfrastructure and supercomputing resources to assist in statewide economic development efforts. The story notes that a University of Maine System-led initiative, Cyberinfrastructure Investment for Development, Economic Growth and Research (CIDER) recently received […]
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Contacts: Thomas Ordelt, (207) 581-2328; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A University of Maine track and field coach has teamed up with exercise science and mechanical engineering researchers to improve the performance of his athletes. A study being conducted on the UMaine campus is employing scientific methods to identify the timing and magnitude of […]
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The blast-resistant technology developed at the UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center could also be used in areas where earthquakes occur, officials at the center told WLBZ television. Center Director Habib Dagher and Larry Parent, assistant director of operations and program management, who were interviewed for the story, said blast-resistant structures have been tested […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3941; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A team of University of Maine computer students recently received a $3,000 contract from the Jackson Laboratory to write an educational computer program for middle and high school students. The contract was awarded by Jackson Lab’s Center for Genome Dynamics, directed by Gary Churchill, […]
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Contact: Nick Knowlen, nicholas.knowlen@umit.maine.edu or (207) 699-8052 University of Maine senior chemical engineering major Nick Knowlen has been named the Paper Industry Management Association (PIMA) Student of the Year Knowlen, a Freeport native, will receive his award in May at PaperCon 2011, the national meeting of the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry […]
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Contact: John Belding, (207) 299-7904; Carl Spang, (617) 510-9295 ORONO — University of Maine researchers in the College of Engineering’s Advanced Manufacturing Center and AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center have successfully designed a composite toe-protection insert for Falcon Performance Footwear, an Auburn shoe company. The new composite component replaces traditional steel toe protection. Falcon […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Thursday aired a report on how the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center is helping Maine businesses with innovative manufacturing projects, including the recent design for a composite safety toe cap for an Auburn company that manufactures boot for firefighters. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center created the composite resin […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about a group of UMaine professors who will spend a month in the Netherlands working at a wind turbine testing facility. The researchers, including AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center director Habib Dagher, will test three models for deepwater offshore turbines at the Marine Research Institute Netherlands.
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Contact: Harlan Onsrud, (207) 581-2175 or onsrud@spatial.maine.edu University of Maine Professor Harlan Onsrud was named a Fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) at the organization’s recent spring meeting. Onsrud, a member of the Department of Spatial Information and Science at UMaine, served as president of UCGIS and was instrumental in its […]
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