Engineering

Media report UMaine a partner in Navy-funded boat hull building project

The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, Mainebiz and the Republican Journal reported the University of Maine is a partner in a boat hull building project led by the Portland, Maine location of Honolulu, Hawaii-based company Navatek and funded by an $8 million U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research contract. The goal of the project is to […]

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UMaine in Princeton Review’s ‘The Best 385 Colleges’

The Princeton Review’s 2020 edition of its annual college guide again cites UMaine as among the best 385 colleges nationwide. The colleges and universities profiled in this year’s “The Best 385 Colleges” represent nearly 13 percent of America’s 3,000 four-year colleges, according to Princeton Review. The company chooses the colleges for the book based on […]

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WABI, BDN quote Dagher in reports on new bridge technology for Brewer business

WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News quoted Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, in reports on new technology the center helped develop for a composite bridge business in Brewer. AIT Bridges and the UMaine Composites Center are launching a composite tub girder, […]

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Sens. Collins, King welcome DOE official to UMaine Composites Center, media report

News Center Maine, WVII (Channel 7) and WABI (Channel 5) reported U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King joined officials from the Maine governor’s office in welcoming Daniel Simmons, Department of Energy (DOE) assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, to the University of Maine. Simmons toured the 100,000-square-foot Advanced Structures and Composites Center […]

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Sens. Collins, King, state leaders welcome DOE assistant secretary to UMaine Composites Center

U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King joined officials from the Maine governor’s office July 26 in welcoming Daniel Simmons, Department of Energy (DOE) assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, to the University of Maine.   Simmons toured the 100,000-square-foot Advanced Structures and Composites Center and its innovations under development, including next-generation floating wind […]

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UMaine debuts new center for 3D metal printing, WABI reports

WABI (Channel 5) reported a new center at the University of Maine is focusing on 3D printing of metal objects. The Center for Additive Manufacturing of Metals (CAMM) is based in the Advanced Manufacturing Center. UMaine hopes CAMM will help the state stay up to speed with the rest of the Northeast in additive metal […]

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The County announces College of Engineering, Presque Isle dual-enrollment program

The County announced a dual-enrollment program between the University of Maine College of Engineering, the Presque Isle Regional Career and Technical Center and Bridge Year Educational Services, Inc. Second-year students in the PIRCTC drafting and engineering technology program will be able to earn three college credits for the UMaine course CIE 101, Engineering Graphics for […]

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Dunning named UMaine’s first ABET Fellow

Scott Dunning, director of the University of Maine School of Engineering Technology and professor of electrical engineering technology, has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The Fellow of ABET Award recognizes individuals who have given sustained, quality service to their fields and to the board’s accredited disciplines. […]

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Bousfield quoted in Mainebiz article on Maine eco-entrepreneurs

Douglas Bousfield, Calder Professor in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Mainebiz article about three Maine innovators in the green economy. Paramount Planet Product, a company that makes disposable consumer goods out of paper rather than plastic, was founded in 2017 by UMaine alumna Ariadne Dimoulas. […]

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