TechConnect Magazine: Talent | Fall 2022: Best in class

Pima JTED Guest Blog: Started an Economic Engine. Now We Must Expand It to Meet Unprecedented Demand

Oct 27, 2026

Image: BizTucson BizTucson In 2005, I learned something from educator Kathy Prather and then-Superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District Roger Pfeuffer that stopped me in my tracks: Pima County was about the only county in Arizona that did not have a Joint Technical Education Di...

FPT Guest Blog: One Store, Many Systems: How Connected AI Turns Dealership Silos into a Single Operation

Oct 26, 2026

It is Monday morning at a multi-rooftop dealer group in the Valley, and the general manager opens the weekly leadership meeting with three screens on the wall. The sales tool flags a customer as ready to trade up and ranks her at the top of the follow-up list. The service system shows she...

NAU Opens New MPaCT Lab, Expanding Arizona’s Semiconductor Research and Workforce Capabilities

Oct 23, 2026

Image: NAU Northern Arizona University  FLAGSTAFF, AZ — Northern Arizona University (NAU) officially opened its new Microelectronics Processing and Characterization Testing (MPaCT) Lab with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 17, marking a major step in the university’s effo...

BC Automation Guest Post: Before You Trust Industrial AI, Can You Trust Its Data?

Oct 23, 2026

Image: BC Automation BC Automation Engineering Perspectives Thomas J. Schwieters | Founder & Chief Technologist, BC Automation The model is only as good as the fidelity of the observation. We don’t go to a symphony wearing earmuffs while standing around the corner. Yet we’...