Automation Alley is a technology business association connecting government, business and education. Since our founding in 1999, Automation Alley has expanded to include more than 1,000 businesses, educational institutions and government entities from the City of Detroit and the surrounding eight-county region.
Automation Alley is committed to business growth; dedicated to diversifying our technology economy; steadfast in our vision to make Southeast Michigan a global center of innovation.Automation Alley offers its members and those in Southeast Michigan's business community several opportunities aimed at growing a successful technology business. A variety of opportunities are available that assist members in expanding a company here in Southeast Michigan, including: educational seminars, free meeting space, a robust job board, and much more.
The School of Art & Design (A&D) has the good fortune to be among the 19 schools and colleges at the University of Michigan, a world-renowned research university. One of the youngest academic units on campus, A&D’s reach and influence have steadily grown since being established as an independent unit in 1974.
A&D’s current academic programs and projects focus on generating new creative work, integrating the cultures of art and design, and engaging with the University, region, and national and international communities. Fostering creative thinking and creative work are at the center the School’s academic, research and community activities and are key to ensuring A&D’s prominence, nationally and internationally.
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is the world's oldest, largest, member-driven society for product design, industrial design, interaction design, human factors, ergonomics, design research, design management, universal design and related design fields.
IDSA organizes the renowned International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) competition annually; hosts the International Design Conference and five regional conferences each year; and publishes Innovation, a quarterly on design, and designBytes, a weekly e-newsletter highlighting the latest headlines in the design world.
EASi is a leading provider of engineering solutions, services and products serving the American, European and Asia-Pacific markets. We provide end-to-end product engineering solutions including concept development, CAD development, Product Lifecycle Management, product verification and CAE analysis.
Our contributions in materials, process and technology innovation has earned us the reputation as leading edge engineering services company. We have created an award winning business model that enables our clients to engineer better products, get to market faster, reduce costs and exploit global opportunities. Using this business model, EASi has helped companies in various industries such as aerospace, automotive, heavy equipment and consumer goods develop and execute successful global engineering and outsourcing strategies.
EASi has established "Domain Knowledge Institute" (DKI), a first of its kind initiative, to systematically acquire and disseminate knowledge for the training and development of engineers around the globe. Learn more about Domain knowledge Institute and upcoming events.
In your business, seeing what's important can make the difference between getting a product to market ahead of your competition or being yesterday's news, between ensuring smooth, continuous operation or encountering a catastrophic failure, or between having accurate research data to move forward confidently or grasping for clues as to what's next. With state-of-the-art visualization systems, IGI helps you see what´s important in your business. But we also encourage you to see what's important when it comes to working with a company who understands your unique visualization needs and has a long history of satisfied customers - a company that has already "been there / done that". See what's important. See IGI.
For more than 20 years, ICEM has led the world in the development of Class A-surface modelling, surface analysis and design visualisation software solutions.
Our vision is to build upon ICEM's acknowledged reputation in the surface modelling market place and address our customers total needs and expectations throughout the digital development process.
ICEM Shape Design software suite offers highly intuitive tools to easily create, validate and modify any type of surfaces, defining freeform and design shapes.
Mechanical designers, shape designers and stylists alike, will find within the ICEM Shape Design software suite of products a comprehensive set of functionalities to support their surface modelling, editing and validation processes accompanied by our high quality rendering tools to bring their virtual creation to reality.
The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. We do this by creating and managing prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today.
The X PRIZE is viewed as the leading model to leverage the elements of public interest, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary innovation to bring about breakthroughs that benefit us all.
We believe that a small group of people with passion for a cause can achieve that which has never been attained. This is why we stage competitions that challenge issues that matter
most.