SOUTHFIELD - Staff of The Engineering Society of Detroit spent the week of June 8 visiting Michigan Technological University in Houghton and Ferris State University in Big Rapids. The visits advanced creation of an ESD student chapter at both schools. The chapters will offer engineering students of all disciplines a chance to meet and network
STERLING HEIGHTS - An Italian manufacturer of laser cutting tools has opened a technology center in Sterling Heights. Cy-Laser S.r.L. of Schio, Italy, held a grand opening to mark the opening of Cy-Laser America LLC. The 12,000-square-foot space includes a demonstration area and technical center. http://technologycentury.com/2015/05/27/italian-laser-maker-opens-sterling-heights-tech-center/
LANSING - Cloud services provider Liquid Web will be purchased by the Chicago private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners. As part of the deal, Liquid Web founder and CEO Matthew Hill will be replaced by James F. Geiger, founder of Atlanta, Ga.-based Cbeyond, which developed the world's first all-Voice Over Internet Protocol network. Cbeyond was
SOUTHFIELD - Three teams from Hamtramck High School swept the top three spots Thursday in The Engineering Society of Detroit's Engineering SMArT Michigan competition, held at Lawrence Technological University. A total of 20 members of the top four finalist teams received $30,000 scholarship offers from Lawrence Technological University at the event. The winning team, "Energy
SOUTHFIELD - The Ferris State University College of Business and a Dearborn-based education and training firm are bringing a series of executive Mini MBA sessions to The Engineering Society of Detroit beginning June 8. Ferris State is offering the Mini MBA in conjunction with Dearborn-based American Center for Educational and Professional Services. The
NOVI - The title of Spencer Sator's opening presentation at the 2015 Energy Conference and Exhibition was "Five Emerging Technologies You Don't Want To Miss." Well, it was really more like seven or eight, but who's counting? Sator, senior manager of emerging technology at Boulder, Colo.-based E Source - which Sator described as "like Consumer
TROY - The Troy-based engineering technology provider Altair said Thursday that its product development group, Altair Product Design, has reached a new milestone having expanded to more than 800 engineering and design staff across the world. The group has doubled its employee count during the last 10years. Altair also announced Garching, Germany based FluiDyna GmbH,
MT. PLEASANT - Central Michigan University's Institute for Great Lakes Research is helping the U.S. Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration identify and restore Great Lakes coastal wetlands and, in the process, make them more resilient to a changing climate. Supported by a $103,069 grant from the
ANN ARBOR - The Ann Arbor-based payment technology startup Stratos Thursday announced the first shipments of its Stratos Bluetooth Connected Card, which combines credit, debit, membership, gift and other magnetic stripe cards in one digital Bluetooth card. "From consumers to leading banks, merchants and card networks, we'se thrilled to see so much positive feedback since
HOUGHTON - Getting relief supplies to millions of survivors of the Nepal earthquake will be a challenge due to the region's rugged terrain and poor road network, according to a Michigan Technological University earthquake expert who visited the country in 2010. Dr. Wayne D. Pennington, dean of MTU's College of Engineering, also said that if