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Roberto Lopez-Anido featured on Composites Weekly Podcast

Roberto Lopez-Anido featured on Composites Weekly Podcast Orono, Maine – ASCC researcher Roberto Lopez-Anido was recently featured on the Composites Weekly podcast, a news and information podcast designed for the composites and advanced materials industry. Podcast host Jonathan Taylor interviewed Lopez-Anido for an episode titled “Developing the Next Generation of Environmentally Sustainable Structural Thermoplastic Composites.” […]

ASCC Work Featured in Scientific American: How Indigenous Groups Are Using 3-D Technology to Preserve Ancient Practices

How Indigenous Groups Are Using 3-D Technology to Preserve Ancient Practices To safeguard fragile cultural objects, some groups are replicating them with digital models Scientific American | Rachel Parsons June 29, 2022, In a cavernous Smithsonian Institution workshop, a team of imaging experts laser scans a small, hand-carved cedar hat. It was crafted more than […]

Project Summary: Hybrid Thermoplastic Composite-Concrete Beam with Welded Shear Studs

Project Summary The Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers works with the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) at the University of Maine on a variety of projects. Task two focuses on using thermoplastic materials for the development of a stiffened panel system for use in load bearing […]

Shaping the Future: Thermoplastics research focuses on advancing manufacturing

This article originally appeared in the Winter 2017 Engineering Special Edition of UMaine Today. Click here to download the full story spread from UMaine Today. Last summer, a team of students, staff and faculty reverse engineered the rear differential cover for a 1998 Dodge Dakota and made a new one. That might seem like a […]

Justin Baron: from Madawaska to Paris, mechanical engineering technology’s a good fit

Justin Baron worked a couple of dead-end jobs after graduating high school. He knew he wanted more. The Madawaska, Maine native found what he was looking for in mechanical engineering technology (MET). The University of Maine senior enjoys ensuring a smooth transition between development, design, testing and manufacturing of innovative products. Baron realized that MET […]

Gardner Receives Dr. Jackie Rehkopf 2nd Place Best Paper Award At SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition

A paper published by Dr. Douglas J. Gardner was recognized with the Dr. Jackie Rehkopf Second Place Best Paper Award at the Society of of Plastics Engineers’ Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition in recognition of excellence in technical writing. The paper is titled: “Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Basalt-Carbon Fiber-Filled Recycled Polypropylene and Polyamide Composites.” The abstract reads: This […]

Madeline Wehrle: Researching structural thermoplastics for use in medical field

Madeline Wehrle was interested in medicine from an early age. After being introduced to isometric drawing and computer-aided design, or CAD, modeling in high school, she also became interested in bioengineering. “It was more of a realization that innovation or engineering is applicable to whatever field you are most passionate about — which for me […]