A conversation with Habib Dagher, Director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center Bath Iron Works Professor at the University of Maine.
Habib Dagher is the founding Executive Director of the Advanced Structures & Composites Center, a National Science Foundation funded research center housed in an 100,000 square foot laboratory with over 350 full and part-time personnel. Habib and his team have been responsible for some remarkable innovations in composites, off-shore wind, and bridge technology - to name just a few. The center has worked with over 500 clients world-wide, including 150 Maine-based companies, and has received top national awards for its research. In October 2015, Habib was recognized as a 2015 White House Transportation Champion of Change as the primary inventor of the composite arch bridge system. He holds 80 U.S. and international patents with 8 additional patents pending.
More information about the Bridge in Backpack: https://www.kleinfelder.com/project/bridge-in-a-backpack-technology/
Habib was part of the 2021 online forums, in a session about "Off Shore Wind from the UK to Maine." The video of that forum is on the MSF YouTube page: https://youtu.be/hI4lECVXCKI.
Our conversation was recorded August 2022.
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