Advanced Materials for Infrastructure and Energy

Washington Post talks with Shaler about mass timber construction

The Washington Post talked with Stephen Shaler, director of the School of Forest Resources and associate director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, for its story “Forget the log cabin. Wood buildings are climbing skyward — with pluses for the planet.” Shaler said, “There’s not a silver bullet out there” with regards to mass […]

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PPH article cites UMaine research referenced in state’s economic plan 

The Portland Press Herald story that covered Gov. Janet Mills’ unveiling of the state’s 10-year economic development plan cited University of Maine research that it contained that identifies new composite materials, some of which combine derivatives of forest products, to make new building materials, bioplastics and biofuels. The development plan seeks to increase average annual […]

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Irja Hepler: Early College leads to hands-on engineering at ASCC

Irja Hepler started working at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) before college, when she landed an internship as a sophomore in high school. Now Hepler, a civil engineering major from Orono, is a senior at UMaine.  “I really like math and I especially like applying it to the real world, […]

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Mainebiz interviews engineering faculty about Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center projects

Mainebiz interviewed Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, about the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center, a collaboration of New England universities led by UMaine. The center seeks to identify new materials and technologies that maximize transportation infrastructure investment, according to Mainebiz. “There are hundreds of thousands of bridges […]

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BDN, AP report on Bussiere’s 3D-printed prosthetic for duck

The Bangor Daily News and Associated Press reported on a 3D-printed prosthetic leg for Faith, a Mallard duck who lost her leg in a fox attack. The prosthetic is being created by Paul Bussiere, 3D printing lab manager at the University of Maine Advanced Structure and Composites Center. “I have eight 3D printers at my […]

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VolturnUS

UMaine receives new DOE funding to advance VolturnUS floating offshore platform

The University of Maine’s floating offshore wind technology demonstration project is one of two initiatives that have been awarded U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding. The two projects will share up to a total of $10 million to conduct additional innovation development to reduce offshore wind energy impact and cost.   The funding announcement was made […]

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Media report on award to design concrete floating offshore wind turbine

Mainebiz and Offshore WIND announced the U.S. Department of Energy had awarded the University of Maine $1.4 million to design a concrete floating offshore wind turbine. The grant — one of 13 made nationwide totaling $26 million — is part of the federal agency’s Aerodynamic Turbines, Lighter and Afloat, with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control […]

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Wind-Wave basin

UMaine awarded nearly $1.4 million for transformational floating offshore wind energy technology

The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (UMaine Composites Center) has been awarded nearly $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, and will collaborate on a more than $1.5 million award to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, both focused on research related to transformational floating offshore […]

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Smart Cities Dive cites UMaine leadership in mass timber research

Smart Cities Dive listed the University of Maine as one of 10 universities to receive a combined $1 million in grants for mass timber projects. Mass timber is lauded for its ability to help cities reduce carbon footprints. The structures can last up to 100 years and sequester carbon from the atmosphere, according to the […]

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