Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced that the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) has been awarded a total of $3,215,332 from the U.S. Army Natick Soldiers Systems Center (SSC).  The funding will support UMaine ASCC’s continued research to better protect the men and women of our nation’s military, including the development of […]

The Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine and Navatek are working together in developing advanced boat hull designs using new materials. While Navatek is based in Hawaii, it opened an office in Portland in order to be closer to UMaine. Navatek is a world leader in designing and analyzing ship hull […]

Eben Lenfest and William Ramsay, mechanical engineering students from the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, interned at NASA over this past summer. They acted as the two design leads on a project regarding a new model of offshore wind turbines. Eben and William have been working for the past ten months on improving the VolturnUS, […]