ANN ARBOR—Ann Arbor Spark announced it will present its third annual Tech Talk at the Michigan Theater June 7 as part of the a2Tech360 series of events. Doors will open at 9 a.m. with the program beginning at 10 a.m. This free event, sponsored by PNC Bank and Wacker Chemical, features inspiring TED-style talks from
SOUTHFIELD - A team of high school students from the West African nation of Ghana took first place in the Senior Game Division at the Robofest World Championships, held Saturday at Lawrence Technological University. Team Acro-Bot hailed from the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation, a robotics organization in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. Taking second place were
ANN ARBOR - MITechNews is adding a live Internet TV show in July, as the weekly M2 Techcast on the PodcastDetroit Network evolves from audio to video. M2 Techcast, which airs live on Monday from 2 to 3 pm, will retain the same format, with four segments featuring interviews with Michigan’s top technology, and business
SOUTHFIELD—A team of students in Lawrence Technological University’s media communication program has produced a half-hour documentary film on previously little-known contributions to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) by three women of color in the early and mid-20th Century. “Women Untold” traces the lives and accomplishments of three women of color in STEM: Jewel Plummer
SOUTHFIELD—A team of high school students from Berkley High School was recognized as the winner of the 2018-19 ACE Mentor Program of Michigan in an honors dinner Tuesday night at Lawrence Technological University. The ACE Mentor – Michigan (an acronym for Architecture, Construction, Engineering) program teaches high school students about the wide range of career
LANSING—Multimatic Sales & Marketing Inc. will build an advanced vehicle development and driving simulation center in Novi with support from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced. The company is a subsidiary of Markham, Ontario-based Multimatic Inc., a global supplier of engineered components, systems, and services to the automotive industry. The project, the
LIVONIA—PSI Repair Services Inc., the Livonia-based service provider to the wind energy industry, announced that it recently surpassed 40,000 repaired wind turbine parts for the wind energy market, following a busy 2018. PSI offers component repair and engineering services for GE, Vestas, Gamesa, Siemens, RePower, Acciona, Suzlon, Nordex, Mitsubishi, and Clipper wind turbines. PSI covers
ANN ARBOR—Pixel Velocity, the Ann Arbor-based provider of industrial Internet of Things software and services, announced the addition of several new executives. Pixel Velocity’s Event Velocity is a digital operations software platform for automating the monitoring and management of remote and hazardous assets. Patrick Talley joined the company as executive vice president of sales. Talley has
HOLLAND – The New York City-based private equity firm Crestview Partners announced the sale of Holland-based JR Automation Technologies LLC for $1.425 billion in cash to Hitachi, Ltd. Established in 1980, JR designs, builds, and programs advanced automation systems for the automotive, aerospace, e-commerce and life science industries. It has more than 2,000 employees. Crestview
LANSING–State officials announced this week that the Michigan Agency for Energy has merged into the new Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. MAE, which had been housed under the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, will no longer exist as its own agency. The Michigan Energy Office, which was part of MAE, and MAE’s
