Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume speaks during a media event held by the Volkswagen Group a day before the auto show in Beijing, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The Volkswagen Group, which includes Audi and Porsche, plans to launch 40 new models in China over the next three years and to have a lineup of 30 EVs by 2030. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) BEIJING (AP) — As auto giant Volkswagen AG races to catch up with upstart Chinese competitors, it has drivers like 26-year-old Ren Yiling in mind. She is young and wants to play video games in her car. The digital features of her Zeekr 001, a European-designed ele ..read more

File – Arthur Mensch, cofounder and CEO of Mistral AI, attends the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit in Bletchley, England on Nov. 2, 2023. The Competition and Markets Authority said it’s looking into Microsoft’s partnership with France’s Mistral AI and the company’s hiring of key staff from another startup, Inflection AI. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP, File) LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators said Wednesday they’ll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry. The Com ..read more

AMUG’s 2024-2025 board is (top, from left) Shannon VanDeren, Tim Bell, Robin Van Bragt, and Heather Natal. (Middle, from left) Ed Graham, Tom Sorovetz, and Claire Belson Barnes. (bottom, from left) Bruce LeMaster and Daniel Landgraf. Photo: AMUG. The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) recently announced the election of three individuals to its board of directors for the next term. Shannon VanDeren, Tim Bell, and Claire Belson Barnes will serve as president, vice-president, and director of membership, respectively. Separately, the AMUG Board appointed Daniel Landgraf as director of spo ..read more

An Airbus employee stands next to the cockpit of an Airbus A220 at the assembly plant in Mirabel, Que., Thursday, February 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes Unionized workers at an Airbus assembly plant north of Montreal have rejected a contract offer for the third time. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents about 1,300 employees at the Mirabel, Que. facility, said Sunday that nearly 70 per cent of its members voted against the proposed deal. “With this agreement in principle, we believed we had met the expectation of our members, but th ..read more

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