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UMaine announces floating offshore wind partnership with UK’s ORE Catapult, Innovate UK and NREL to advance US supply chains
The University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composite Center (ASCC) announced a new partnership with Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Innovate UK along with the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Up to five U.K. companies will be chosen to receive between £300,000 and £500,000 in grant funding to engage with the ASCC and…
UMaine ASCC unveils new world’s largest 3D printer
The University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) unveils the world’s largest 3D printer. Read more here.
Forecasting the Future: Rudy Alkarem’s Award-Winning Research on Predictive Digital Twins in Renewable Energy
Yuksel “Rudy” Alkarem, a doctoral candidate and research assistant at the ASCC, has won the Best Poster award at WindEurope’s Annual Event for his research; “On Building Predictive Digital Twin Incorporating Wave Predicting Capabilities: Case Study on UMaine Experimental Campaign – FOCAL,”. Alkarem, as well as researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,…
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.
The Pier of the Future
It is one thing for a student to get hands-on experience in field construction and another to be a project manager overseeing construction of Maine’s first wood…
Space-age gavels
In the latest session of the Maine legislature, at least nine wooden gavels were broken in the House of Representatives by House Speaker Michael Saxl as he…
Composite Strength
Editorial Voters who two years ago supported the state’s first attempt to fuel its university system with money for research and development now can see their…
The State Of Composites
Materials Made By Combining Several Others, Are Becoming Big Business In Maine By L. Mercedes Wesel David Patch imagines a town in Midcoast Maine known not…
Making Magic with Wood
By Susan Young, Bangor Daily News Carefully perched on a rock, Habib Dagher tapped away at the keys of a laptop computer balanced on steel rods…
Making magic with wood UM professor engineers feats with composites
By Susan Young Carefully perched on a rock, Habib Dagher tapped away at the keys of a laptop computer balanced on steel rods protruding from a…