Design Engineering is looking to recognize Canada’s best and brightest up-and-coming engineers. Nominate a worthy candidate at your company now! ELIGIBILITY All nominees must: Be under the age of 40 as of Dec. 31, 2024. Be working as an engineer with a company whose operation is based in Canada. All nominees should: Demonstrate a strong work ethic. Show leadership and initiative. Actively seek new opportunities for training and education. Be involved in industry associations, projects and/or initiatives. To fill out a nomination form online, click here. Submissions for Design Engineering ..read more

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Scranton, Pa. Biden has begun three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his childhood hometown of Scranton. The Democratic president is using the working class city of roughly 75,000 as the backdrop for his pitch for higher taxes on the wealthy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Joe Biden is calling for a tripling of tariffs on steel from China to protect American producers from a flood of cheap imports, an announcement he planned to roll out Wednesday in an address to steelworkers in the battleground sta ..read more

An airplane flies over a sign on Boeing’s 737 delivery center, Oct. 19, 2015, at Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing will be in the spotlight during back-to-back hearings Wednesday, April 17, 2024, as Congress examines allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) Boeing will be in the spotlight during back-to-back hearings Wednesday, as Congress examines allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer. The first session will feature members of an expert panel that found serious flaws in Boeing’s safety cul ..read more

Lisa Baiton, CAPP president and CEO. Statement from Lisa Baiton, CAPP president and CEO: Canada’s world-class resource base stands as one of our foremost competitive advantages. The Bank of Canada has warned that weak productivity and low business investment is a national emergency. An economic and public policy environment that leverages Canada’s world-class resource base to provide well-paying jobs for Canadians, revenues to governments, and Canadian LNG to displace higher-emitting forms of energy overseas, has the potential to address this emergency. The inclusion of the oil and natural g ..read more

ABB has announced that has made a minority investment in GridBeyond, a technology provider of energy management solutions based on artificial intelligence and data science. Based in Ireland, GridBeyond’s solutions are designed to allow its customers to optimize distributed energy resources and industrial loads. ABB stated that this strategic partnership “will contribute to the continued expansion of ABB’s sustainability advisory services portfolio, and help customers and operators across utilities, industry, infrastructure, and transportation to transition to net zero.” “Our investment in Grid ..read more

Students Cylis Trembley, Quinn Hyde, Jayden Tipping, Nick Wagner and Derek Gropp were among some of the first students to see Canada’s first original, full-build, zero-emission concept vehicle, Project Arrow. Photo: Amanda Modaragamage, Local Journalism Initiative. Students at Stratford District Secondary School (SDSS) had a first-hand look at Canada’s first original, full-build, zero-emission concept vehicle, Project Arrow, on March 20. The car was displayed for SDSS students in the “Specialist High Skills Major Program in Transportation” with representatives from the Automotive Parts Manuf ..read more

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has announced that it will invest US$75 million towards a project for the development of a critical minerals supply chain research facility, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The project will be funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. According to a recent press release for the DOE, its purpose is to “strengthen domestic supply chains, help to meet the growing demand for critical minerals and materials, and reduce reliance on unreliable foreign sources.” “Critical materials are ..read more

A Ford sign is shown at a dealership in Springfield, Pa., Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Ford is recalling nearly 43,000 small SUVs, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, because gasoline can leak from the fuel injectors onto hot engine surfaces, increasing the risk of fires. But the recall remedy does not include repairing the fuel leaks.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 43,000 small SUVs because gasoline can leak from the fuel injectors onto hot engine surfaces, increasing the risk of fires. But the recall remedy does not include repairing the fuel leaks. The recall covers cert ..read more

BlackBerry Ltd. has announced a deal to work with chipmaker AMD on new robotic systems. A BlackBerry logo is shown in Waterloo, Ont. on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Ryan BlackBerry Ltd. has announced a deal to work with chipmaker AMD on new robotic systems technology. It made the announcement at the Embedded World conference in Nuremburg, Germany. The collaboration combines BlackBerry’s software with AMD’s computer hardware. Grant Courville, vice-president of product and strategy at BlackBerry QNX, says the collaboration will provide an integrated software-hardware founda ..read more

(L to R): Jonathan Lloyd, Head Flow Equipment Energy & Infrastructure BU, Sulzer; Suzanne Thoma, executive chairwoman, Sulzer; Claude Ollivier, managing director, Sulzer Mexico; Miguel García, machine shop manager, Sulzer Mexico. Sulzer recently celebrated the official launch of a brand new test and assembly centre built alongside its existing pump manufacturing facility in Mexico City. The new state-of-the-art facility features a 10-metre-deep hydraulics test bed for large pumps, a digital monitoring system and a dedicated packaging area. With this expansion, Sulzer Mexico’s pump f ..read more