Recent News Archives - Page 15 of 37 - Advanced Structures & Composites Center

Recent News

Dr. Habib J. Dagher Recognized as 2019 Transportation Champion by the Maine Better Transportation Association

Dr. Habib Dagher, Executive Director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (UMaine Composites Center), was recognized as the 2019 Transportation Champion by the Maine Better Transportation Association (MBTA) during an award ceremony on Friday, October 4th in Freeport, Maine. The MBTA is the largest transportation organization in the state with 700 members. The […]

UMaine awarded nearly $1.4 million for transformational floating offshore wind energy technology

The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (UMaine Composites Center) has been awarded nearly $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, and will collaborate on a more than $1.5 million award to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, both focused on research related to transformational floating offshore […]

Navatek’s Collaboration with the Advanced Structures and Composites Center

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 […]

WABI quotes Dr. Habib Dagher in report on new composite bridge girder designed at the ASCC

WABI (Channel 5) quoted Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, in a report on new technology the Center helped develop for a composite bridge business in Brewer. AIT Bridges and the UMaine Composites Center are launching a composite tub girder, which will be a […]

Sens. Collins, King, state leaders welcome DOE assistant secretary to UMaine Composites Center

Orono, Maine — U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King joined officials from the Maine governor’s office July 26 to in welcoming Daniel Simmons, Department of Energy (DOE) assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, to the University of Maine. Simmons toured the 100,000-square-foot Advanced Structures and Composites Center and its innovations under development, […]

Eben Lenfest Named as UMaine’s 2019 Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Engineering

Eben Lenfest of Smithfield, Maine, has been named as one of the ten 2019 Outstanding Graduating Students at UMaine. Specifically, Lenfest is the Outstanding Graduating Student for the College of Engineering. Lenfest is a mechanical engineering major with minors in robotics as well as ocean and marine engineering. He is an Eagle Scout and a […]

2016 Windstorm Challenge Participants Find Engineering Industry Experience and Success as Interns

Donovan Savage, Chathu Karunasiri, and Michael Hunter, three students from Caribou High School, participated in the 2016 Kleinschmidt Windstorm Challenge, which asks teams of students to design and construct a floating platform for a scale model wind turbine, and then deliver a presentation to a panel of expert judges. While their team lost, their work […]

UMaine Ph.D. candidate nears the end of his dissertation and looks towards a future with the ASCC

Murtada Alrubaie is a Ph.D. candidate working on his dissertation at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC). Originally from a city south of Baghdad in Iraq, he obtained two engineering degrees before coming to UMaine. Alrubaie received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Basrah in 2005, and his master’s degree […]

Lakes Region High School from Naples Triumphs at the Kleinschmidt Windstorm Challenge

ORONO, Maine — More than 400 Maine middle and high school students participated in the 7th Annual Kleinschmidt Windstorm Challenge on May 17 in the Harold Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Laboratory at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. In the Kleinschmidt Windstorm Challenge, teams of middle and high school students collaborate to […]

Article by Elliott Sanders, Yousoo Han, Todd Rushing, and Douglas Gardner Published in MDPI Nanomaterials

An article by PhD student Elliott Sanders, titled Electrospinning of Cellulose Nanocrystal-Filled Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Solutions: Material Property Assessment, has been published on the website of the Nanomaterials journal by the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. The article was coauthored by Yousoo Han, Todd Rushing, and Doctor Douglas Gardner. The following is the abstract for the article: Poly […]

« Previous 1 … 13 14 15 16 17 … 37 Next »

Campus weather closure

Advanced Structures & Composites Center

Recent News