SOUTHFIELD - Engineering Society of Detroit members can get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of a pioneering glass plant on Thursday, Aug. 27 when ESD tours Guardian Industries Corp.'s float glass manufacturing plant in Carleton. http://technologycentury.com/2015/07/08/esd-to-tour-guardian-glass-plant-in-carleton/
HOUGHTON - Jacqueline Huntoon has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Michigan Technological University. Huntoon has been dean of Michigan Tech's Graduate School since 2005 and associate provost since 2011. She is also a professor in the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences. http://technologycentury.com/2015/07/08/michigan-tech-names-new-provost/
PETOSKEY - BioStar Ventures, a venture capital fund for medical device and connected health technologies in cardiovascular and orthopedic medicine, announced that it has now raised more than $68 million for BioStar III, its third and largest fund to date. BioStar I and BioStar II funds collectively totaled $65 million. http://technologycentury.com/2015/07/09/biostar-ventures-raises-68-8-million-for-third-fund/
SOUTHFIELD - Last week, The Engineering Society of Detroit recognized the winners of its 41st annual Construction & Design Awards. Now, ESD Members can tour some of those award-winning buildings, getting an exclusive insider's look at the high-tech touches that made them award winners. To read the rest of this story, click on http://technologycentury.com/2015/06/29/esd-sets-tours-of-three-award-winning-high-tech-buildings/
GRAND RAPIDS - Blue Medora, a developer of software that analyzes cloud computing systems, Monday announced it had raised $4.6 million in Series A venture capital. The round was led by the Ann Arbor technology venture fund Michigan eLab, with participation from current investors Start Garden, a Grand Rapids tech incubator, the Grand Rapids angel
DETROIT - Nearly 300 members and supporters of The Engineering Society of Detroit gathered Wednesday night at the Detroit Institute of Arts for the ESD's 2015 Annual Dinner, a celebration of the art of engineering. ESD is a uniquely cross-disciplinary membership organization for engineers and people in related scientific and technical fields. Besides all forms
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit acknowledged the engineers of tomorrow with awards June 24 during the annual ESD Annual Dinner. Among the many awards ESD presented at the event include the Outstanding Young Engineer award, the Outstanding College Student award, and the Outstanding High School Student award. The Outstanding Young Engineer of the
SOUTHFIELD - Members of The Engineering Society of Detroit can get an exclusive first-hand look at the region's newest engineering education showplace - the spectacular new 128,000-square-foot Oakland University Engineering Center - on Monday, June 29. The members-only tour begins with registration and networking at 1 p.m., followed by the tour at 1:30. The cost
HOUGHTON - A student chapter of The Engineering Society of Detroit is on the way for Michigan Technological University. ESD Executive Director Robert Magee and other ESD staff met last week with MTU President Glenn Mroz and Wayne D. Pennington, dean of MTU's College of Engineering, to work on the new chapter. Magee, along with
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