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LTU names unique research center after Engineering Dean Nabil Grace

SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University’s Center for Innovative Materials Research, pictured above, has a combination of specialized materials testing equipment that can provide full-scale environmental condition testing and evaluation not found anywhere …

3D Printing / Advanced Materials / Artificial Intelligence / Augmented Reality / Big Data / Cloud Technologies / Robotics / Virtual Reality

IBM, Intel among new sponsors of Automation Alley conference

TROY—The Troy-based technology and manufacturing business association Automation Alley announced that IBM and Intel have signed on as event sponsors for its global Industry 4.0 conference, Integr8. Heading into its …

Advanced Materials / University Research

Michigan Tech offers new insight into the magic of metamaterials

HOUGHTON — Metamaterials offer the very real possibility that our most far-fetched fancies could one day become real as rocks. From invisibility cloaks and perfect lenses to immensely powerful batteries, …

Higher Education

WMU Part Of Team That ‘Tunes’ Abundant Elements For Semiconductors

KALAMAZOO — In a world concerned about the dwindling supply and skyrocketing prices of rare elements used to make semiconductors, an international team of scientists and engineers has demonstrated that …

3D Printing

EnvisionTec Teams with Somos to Develop High-Performance Materials

DEARBORN — EnvisionTec, the 3D printing technology provider, Tuesday announced a collaboration with Somos, the 3D printing material development division of the Dutch advanced materials and biotech firm Royal DSM. …

Biotech

Kraig’s Spider Silk Up For Textile Awards

ANN ARBOR — Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. (OTC: KBLB), the Ann Arbor-based biotech developer of silk with the strength of spiderwebs, announced that the company has been named as a …

Electronics

MSU Makes Smart Material Even Smarter

EAST LANSING — A team of researchers, including some from Michigan State University, is making a smart material smarter in order to make a better antenna. Using a series of …

Jobs / Manufacturing

Lightweighting — A Heavyweight Job Creator

DETROIT — The invented word is “lightweighting,” and when it comes to job creation it’s fighting far above its weight class. Two industry groups say that employment in lightweighting-related occupations …

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