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 […]
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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, […]
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The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) has announced the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center will receive one of four new awards for collaborative projects that boost Maine’s high-potential, technology-enabled clusters. Under MTI’s Cluster Initiative Program (CIP), the UMaine Composites Center was awarded $438,046 to establish a Smart Materials Industry Consortium and Smart Materials Lab […]
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