DETROIT - SAE International, MIT Alliance of Michigan and NextEnergy have developed the Global Automotive Innovation Challenge to create increased flow of great innovations for automotive OEMs and Suppliers. Twenty Semi-Finalists teams, including a dozen from Michigan, with potentially high value innovations for the automotive market have been screened from a larger pool of global
GRAND RAPIDS ? For the 15th year, serial entrepreneur Keith Brophy has looked into his crystal ball to predict tech trends short and long-term. On Wednesday he updated his list to include a stampede to social media advertising, virtual reality headsets for gaming and entertainment, and the Apple Watch leading the sale of 100 million
ANN ARBOR ? MITechNews.Com and The Engineering Society of Detroit today announced a new content partnership, the first step toward further collaboration. Matt Roush, ESD?s Director of Communications and Public Relations, will post the stories that he writes for the ESD?s Technology Century website and magazine in a newly created ESD section at MITechNews.Com and
DETROIT ? Janet Tyler, a founder and former co-CEO of Airfoil, left the public relations firm last October because, she said, after 20 years working in agency shops she was hoping to land a job with a start-up. In February, Tyler was named Chief Operating Officer of Red Level Networks, a 10-year old IT services
LANSING - In a surprise move on Tuesday, Governor Rick Snyder announced that Nick Khouri, a vice president at DTE Energy and a former chief deputy treasurer, will become Michigan's new treasurer. Khouri succeeds current Treasurer Kevin Clinton who is stepping down from the post he took in 2013 to rejoin the private sector, somewhere
EAST LANSING ? Three Michigan State University College of Engineering researchers are developing a new technology known as substrate computing that could let a bridge or dam sense a structural defect before it happens. Substrate computing will allow sensing, communication and diagnostic computing, all within the substrate ? the building material ? of a structure,
GRAND RAPIDS ? Davenport University has named Pamela R. Imperato, Ph.D., as Dean of the Donald W. Maine College of Business and of the College of Technology. She will start in July. Imperato comes to Davenport from Bellevue University in Nebraska where she has served as Dean of the College of Business, overseeing 24 academic
LANSING - Valerie Brader, Governor Rick Snyder?s top aide on energy matters, will lead the new Michigan Agency for Energy that Snyder is creating to coordinate the state?s energy programs. Snyder, in issuing an executive order Wednesday setting up the new agency, announced Brader, currently a deputy legal counsel and senior policy advisor specializing in
LANSING - Legislation to create a STEM endorsed Michigan high school diploma will help encourage students to show greater interest in technical education and help produce more technically trained students to go into jobs the state has openings for, members of the Senate Education Committee were told Tuesday. The panel heard testimony of SB 169
LANSING - The Department of Human Services is increasing its contract with the company that created the Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System by $15.68 million for maintenance and enhancements, a spokesperson said on Monday. The 10-month program has been under scrutiny because of issues with payments to individual foster parents and private agencies,