Innovations Critical and Complex
Alabama’s top academic and nonprofit inventors have produced significant patents, primarily in biomedical fields. They are among the 4, 000 fellows of the...
Boosting High Tech Critical Mass
Key players behind Innovate Birmingham, from left: Brian Hilson of BBA, Dr. Ray Watts...
Risk Management for Mars
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, will launch crew members and massive cargo loads into deep space, ...
Manufacturing System Controls
Todd Hassel, the business development manager of Prism Systems Inc., swings open the front panel of a vending machine, exposing its...
Factory Controllers: Hargrove Engineers + Constructors
Most Royal Street pedestrians are oblivious to the workings underneath the road. But in the subterranean basement of Hargrove Engineers + Constructors is an...
The Transformation of Adtran
Founded in 1985, Adtran Inc. (Nasdaq: ADTN) is one of the oldest and largest of Alabama’s technology companies, though it largely goes...
Leather Goods Home Grown, Hand Made
Michael Stricklin ​ Opelika during the 19th century was on a major rail line for bales of cotton to be shipped...
Alabama Gig Cities
ABOVE Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle at the headquarters of Adtran, a leading U.S. provider of...
Making Solar Real in Alabama
Just a few years ago Rob Ozols, founder and chief executive officer of Vulcan Solar Power in Birmingham, had attained a coveted...
Smartphone Groceries
ABOVE “Life has plenty of demands already — jobs, family, so many things. Fitting in time to go buy groceries...
