Plourde designs free iPad app based on Borns’ map of Maine Ice Age Trail
Plourde designs free iPad app based on Borns’ map of Maine Ice Age Trail.
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Mark Dwyer: From Student to Staff
Civil engineering major becomes full-time Composites Center employee after graduation.
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Blaine Livingston: Manufacturing Armor Panels
Nontraditional student veteran manufacturing parts for Department of Defense project at Composites Center.
Read moreUMaine Advanced Manufacturing Center, Maine MEP Announce Partnership
The University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) has entered into a new agreement with the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Maine MEP) that will expand the center’s capacity, Maine MEP announced. The partnership, which will place a Maine MEP project manager at AMC, will promote closer collaboration between the organizations with the goal of enhancing […]
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Carnegie Foundation Selects UMaine for 2015 Community Engagement Classification
The University of Maine is one of 240 colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the 2015 Community Engagement Classification of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UMaine and 156 other institutions received reclassification; 83 colleges and universities received first-time classification. In 2008, UMaine and Bates College were the first […]
Read moreUMaine Completes 56-meter Wind Blade Test for Gamesa
The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has completed static strength testing of a 56-meter (184-foot) wind turbine blade for Gamesa, a global technological leader in the wind industry, based in Spain. The blade was manufactured in North America and delivered to the University of Maine in late August. In the testing, the […]
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UMaine Scientists Developing Green Adhesive Made of CNF, as Well as a Plant to Produce Large Quantities of Wood-Based Fibers
University of Maine researchers have been awarded $700,000 to develop eco-friendly particleboard panels with adhesive made of cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), as well as design a commercial-scale plant to manufacture the CNF. With one $350,000 grant, UMaine scientists Mehdi Tajvidi, William Gramlich, Doug Bousfield, Doug Gardner and Mike Bilodeau, as well as John Hunt from the […]
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UMaine’s Wind-Wave Generating Lab Will Replicate Realistic, To-Scale Ocean Conditions
What’s it like to weather a perfect storm? Engineers at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) soon will find out. They’ll have the capability to create one. Earlier this summer, UMaine broke ground for an $8 million facility that will house W² — the world’s first wind and […]
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DOE Officials Mark Yearlong Deployment of VolturnUS, Sign $3.97M Cooperative Research Agreement
Editor’s note: This is an edited version of the original story. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud welcomed top officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to Castine on Sept. 5 to celebrate a successful year of the VolturnUS floating wind turbine deployed off Castine. “This anniversary is another great day […]
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UMaine’s inflatable technology expertise utilized by NASA, U.S. Army
The Curiosity Rover took a selfie June 24 to celebrate its one Martian-year anniversary — 687 Earth days — on the Red Planet. If NASA perfects its Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD), a spacecraft nose-mounted “giant cone of inner tubes” stacked like a ring toy, one day people also may be taking selfies on the […]
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