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MARSHALL - For the fourth consecutive year, the team from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, placed first at the Society of Automotive Engineers Supermileage student competition, recording the highest ever fuel economy results for the event, achieving 4,113 miles per gallon. A total of 16 collegiate teams (11 from the U.S. and 5 from Canada)
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday June 12, auto expert David Cole, chairman of Auto Harvest, will update listeners on the latest auto tech trends. Tember Shea of Inforum will interview Alexa Jones, CEO of TheraB Medical, a East Lansing startup working to launch its first product, SnugLit. SnugLit is a wearable, portable solution
ROYAL OAK - The Great Lakes Drone Racing Cup is the first large scale drone race in the Midwest that will be held at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids in July. Quadcopters will fly indoors at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour. Cash prizes and trophies will be awarded. And Drone
ROYAL OAK – On M2 TechCast Monday cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann will talk about physical attacks, including Manchester, England. Michigan Science Center CEO Tonya Matthews will discuss her STEM summer outreach plans. Tech248 Co-Founder Irene Spanos will interview 365 Retail Markets CEO Joe Hessling and COO John Chidiac. Drone Law Pro Enrico Schaefer will announce the 10
DETROIT - Southeast Michigan’s Connected and Automated Vehicles network is burgeoning, with 351 organizations identified, including automotive, software, legal, construction, government and manufacturing. The report also found nearly 1,400 relationships already developed between these organizations, a significant sign that a healthy, collaborative climate is being fostered in the region – a dynamic vital to long-term
DETROIT - For the eighth consecutive year, demand for advanced manufacturing workers in Michigan increased, this time by 19 percent from October 2016 through March 2017. Online job postings increased from 29,090 to 34,836, according to a new report from LIFT - Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow. More than 700,000 professionals now work in light weighting-related
DETROIT - Rick Beckers of CloudTech1 and Mike Brennan of MiTechNews share their vision for IoT Tech Connect Conference. The gathering planned for this October will highlight what’s happening with the Internet of Things market in Southeast Michigan, including autonomous vehicles, bio-agriculture, tourism and travel, biotech and life sciences, as well as efforts to develop the talent to
HOWELL - The Michigan STEM Partnership announced Tuesday a joint initiative with the Mobile Technology Association and Inforum to collect and share videos from STEM professionals in order to enable student, parent and educator awareness of STEM careers and the opportunities they provide, and to encourage student participation in STEM careers. Known as the ‘Michigan
ANN ARBOR - ITC took MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan up in a helicopter Friday that over-flew at a low altitude miles of high-voltage power lines to demonstrate what happens when the electric transmission company does it semi-annual aerial inspections. The lines are operated by ITC’s Michigan operating entities, ITCTransmission and Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday May 22, Drone law expert Enrico Schaefer talks about the Great Lakes Drone Racing Cup. Also he will explain show an attorney took the FAA to court on a registration rule for model aircraft and won. Nick Lumsden, vice president at Online Tech, breaks down what happened with
