A University of Maine contingent will be in South Carolina on Aug. 21 to provide people around the world with a live view of the total eclipse from the edge of space. The engineering group is part of the NASA-sponsored project, “Great American Eclipse,” during which students from 55 teams nationwide will launch high-altitude balloons […]
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Chloe Lilly is a rising junior in the bioengineering department. Her research is looking at paper diagnostics and how this impacts Maine’s paper industry.
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Sarah Caron is a graduate mechanical engineering student from Holden, Maine at the University of Maine working on her masters. A Maine aquaculture farming facility teamed up with the University in need of a large volume photobioreactor (PBR) to grow algae that would be used to feed oysters at their facility. The facility is currently […]
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The SWE Future Leaders coordination team would like to recognize the 21 SWEFL’s that completed the FY17 SWEFL Program. These collegiates have grown in their leadership skills and had opportunities to meet a variety of SWE global leaders. Below, we are highlighting SWEFLs that have gone above and beyond their core program requirements. One SWE […]
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Ready to take your career to the next level by earning a Professional Science Masters in Engineering & Business? Aerospace and Surveying tracks are offered online so that you can finish your degree from just about anywhere. https://mcec.umaine.edu/psm/ “As I continued to grow, both personally and professionally, I had long been contemplating graduate school. I […]
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Cadet Jenny Dalrymple takes on the 64-foot rappel tower at Cadet Summer Training Advanced Camp at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, where she is building confidence in both herself and her equipment. Cadet Dalrymple-way to represent! Did you know that the Army ROTC and Navy ROTC are both under the College of Engineering at the University of […]
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The Lincoln County News covered the May 24th launch of a high-altitude balloon carrying experiments of students at Jefferson Village School and Bristol Consolidated School. The launch was part of the Maine Space Grant Consortium’s Maine Student High Altitude Platform Program, designed to increase student interest in STEM. Richard Eason, a University of Maine associate […]
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Donald Bistri, Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Engineering Donald Bistri of Tirana, Albania is a mechanical engineering major who has been a student research assistant for two years in the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC). At UMaine, his honors included the Alton S. and Adelaide B. Hamm College of Engineering Scholarship. […]
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This December, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) UMaine embarks on a second assessment trip to the community of El Descanso, Ecuador! This trip lays the groundwork for the development of a sustainable water supply system. The 120-person community resides about 30 miles from the Ecuadorian coast, and has been lucky enough to miss most of the […]
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