Staff Bios

About the Advanced Manufacturing Center

The Advanced Manufacturing Center is part of the University of Maine’s College of Engineering. The mission of the AMC program is to link the traditional University of Maine activities of education and research with the University's active industrial support and economic development programs.

The Advanced Manufacturing Center is an engineering support and service center that is dedicated to promoting economic development in Maine, and supporting the research programs at the University of Maine and would be readily accessible to businesses, entrepreneurs, and researchers throughout Maine.

The AMC is centered on an engineering approach to solving manufacturing problems and has experience working on projects in: Product development, prototyping, and commercialization

--Improvement of existing products and manufacturing methods
--Research support system design and integration
--Ongoing operational support and training
--Manufacturing streamlining and process development

The AMC offers these capabilities to campus research laboratories and manufacturers in Maine:

--Material Cutting and Machining Process Development
--Rapid Prototyping & Reverse Engineering
--Short-Term Production Services
--Advanced Engineering Support (CAD/CAM/CAE)
--Student Training in a real world job shop/ manufacturing environment

The AMC program is committed to maintaining a first-class facility equipped with the latest manufacturing technologies. The Advanced Manufacturing Center will design and build projects ranging from large scale fabrications to machined parts with micro-millimeter tolerances. It has the ability to expand its range of expertise by working with other engineering faculty and through cooperative efforts with other UMaine research centers.

Facilities

The Advanced Manufacturing Center is centrally located on the University of Maine campus in Orono. The new facility is approximately 30,000 square feet, with 20,000 square feet of that being dedicated to machining and materials testing space. A large portion of the bottom floor is a high bay manufacturing floor with a 5-ton bridge crane that houses the AMC's large equipment. The entire building is temperature and humidity controlled.