UMaine News

Maritime Professional and MarineLink highlighted an upcoming virtual presentation on May 18 at the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association event, where the keynote speaker will be Habib Dagher. Dagher, founding director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Sector, will be talking about the Composite Center’s design and construction of the world’s largest 3D-printed vessels.

In an article about the impact of large additive manufacturing on the aerospace and energy industries, Additive Manufacturing noted that the University of Maine is developing a 3D printing solution to make segmented wind turbine blades with funding from the US. Department of Energy.  

In an article about pioneers in floating offshore wind power, the Business Download featured the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center director Habib Dagher, and engineers Jacob Ward and Anthony Viselli, who both grew up in rural Maine and graduated from UMaine. Today, these engineers and their team are making history — and […]

MaineBiz reported on an omnibus federal funding package that includes $35 million to help build a digital research laboratory at the University of Maine. The facility, dubbed the “factory of the future,” will advance large-scale, biobased additive manufacturing using technologies such as artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and arrays of large 3D printers and subtractive systems.

In an article about developing wave energy on the U.S. East Coast, Richard Kimball, Presidential Professor of Ocean Engineering and Energy at the University of Maine, told Offshore Source that a scaled ocean field test site in Castine and a full-scale demonstration site in Mohegan are available to move wave energy systems from concept to […]

3D Printing Industry included the University of Maine’s eco-friendly turbine blade mold 3D printing process, which is backed by $2.8 million in federal funding, in an article about the ways in which 3D printing is used to advance renewable energy technology.