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Notice to Mariners – May 2nd, 2025
This notice is to inform you that the University of Maine will be towing a research floating wind turbine weighing 375 tons and is 56ft wide x 111ft tall. The barge will be towed about 5.5 nautical miles from Mack Point in Searsport, Maine to just off of Dyce Head in Castine, Maine. For public…
NOTICE TO MARINERS
UMaine will be towing a research floating barge weighing 375 tons and is 56ft wide x 32ft tall. The barge will be towed about 60 miles from Desert Narrows off Trenton, Maine to Mack Point in Searsport, Maine. The date of the tow is highly dependent on weather and vessel traffic at Mack Point but…
ASCC Researcher Joins ACMA Emerging Leaders Program
Cody Sheltra, ASCC Senior Research Manager, has been accepted into the American Composites Manufacturing Association (ACMA) Emerging Leaders Program. This inaugural group will learn how to advocate for the composites industry; advancing a new generation of thinkers and leaders. Sheltra’s research focuses on projects related to the manufacturing and testing of large-scale thermoset composites and…
Designed to address labor shortages and supply chain issues that are driving high costs and constricting the supply of affordable housing, BioHome3D is the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based, recyclable materials
The American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit (AFloat) brings together industry, academia, academiarnment floating offshore wind experts from around the world to chart a course for floating offshore wind in the US.
Dr. Yousoo Han Promoted to Associate Research Professor
Dr. Yousoo Han is among twenty-one University of Maine faculty who received tenure and/or promotion earlier this week. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Susan…
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…
Dwyer featured in Journal of Light Construction
Mark Dwyer, a research engineer at the UMaine Composites Center, was recently featured in the Journal of Light Construction for a personal side project: designing and…
Paper by McDonald, Goupee, Berube, and Lopez-Anido published in book on Structural Health Monitoring
A paper titled, “Numerical Model for Predicting Carbon Fiber Composite Cable Forces in a Cable-Stayed Bridge,” was recently published in Structural Health Monitoring 2017: Proceedings of the…
Shaping the Future: Thermoplastics research focuses on advancing manufacturing
Roberto Lopez-Anido is the faculty lead for procurement and implementation in the Alfond Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory for Structural Thermoplastics, where the mission…
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…