ASCC students present during Fall 2022 Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

ASCC students present during Fall 2022 Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

Orono, Maine — The University of Maine Department of Mechanical Engineering hosted a series of weekly seminar talks during the Fall 2022 semester. Six of the nine speakers in the series were ASCC graduate student researchers. The talks were held live and in-person, and fulfilled the requirement for mechanical engineering graduate students to present a seminar on their research in advance of their final defense. 

We are proud of our graduate students and the meaningful research that they do! 



Lauren Dickson

 “Wave Environmental Characterization for Scaled Ocean Test Sites” 



Alyssa McGlynn

 “Development on an Active Mooring Simulator for Scale Model Testing of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines



Philip Bean

 “Microstructural Analysis toward Topology Optimization with 3D Printed Gyroid Infill” 




Ben Blood

“Comparison of Global Performance of a 15, 20, and 24 MW Floating Offshore Wind Turbine” 




Chase Flaherty

“Thermoplastic Welding for Joining Additively Manufactured Wind Blade Mold Segments”




Leah Sirkis

“A Tuned OpenFAST Hydrodynamics Model of the VolturnUS Floating Offshore Wind Turbine” 




Contact: Katelin Moody, katelin.moody@maine.edu