William D. Mensch Jr., 60, never thought he’d become an electrical engineer.

A California-based producer of interconnection devices for high-tech equipment will move its headquarters and all of its manufacturing to Mesa.

NEW YORK - Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home.

NEW YORK - Ink has been used for millennia to convey ideas, but it may be about to convey something new: Electricity.

 If you’re an engineer looking for work, there’s good news -- relatively speaking. “Things are not as bad for engineers” as for other sectors, says Jim Missert, president of technology placement agency ProStart.

Arizona State University is partnering with City University of Hong Kong (CityU) to advance flexible electronics systems. The "CityU-ASU Collaborative on Flexible Systems" was launched Nov. 2. The two universities paved the way for such projects when they signed a Memorandum of Understanding last April.

Arizona State University is partnering with City University of Hong Kong (CityU) to advance flexible electronics systems. The "CityU-ASU Collaborative on Flexible Systems" was launched Nov. 2. The two universities paved the way for such projects when they signed a Memorandum of Understanding last April.

The cab of the fire engine filled with a bright whiteblue light that snapped and popped with electricity as a paralyzing current ran through the two Rural/Metro firefighters seated in front.

NEW YORK - Divers searching for an engine that broke off a US Airways plane after it hit a flock of birds and safely splashed down in the Hudson River last week found it Wednesday in hard mud about 65 feet below the surface of the murky, frigid water.

MIAMI - Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he's embedded into a line of sneakers "peace of mind." He wishes his 8-year-old son had been wearing them when he got a call from his school in 2002 saying the boy was missing.

A volunteer team of engineers at Microchip Technology in Chandler is already planning work on a second spacesuit satellite that they hope will be launched next year. Two weeks after being released from the international space station, the world’s first orbiting spacesuit satellite — called SuitSat-1 — continues to transmit signals and offer new surprises for the Microchip engineers who built some of the makeshift satellite’s electronics.

A volunteer team of engineers at Microchip Technology in Chandler is already planning work on a second spacesuit satellite that they hope will be launched next year. Two weeks after being released from the international space station, the world’s first orbiting spacesuit satellite — called SuitSat-1 — continues to transmit signals and offer new surprises for the Microchip engineers who built some of the makeshift satellite’s electronics.

In one year, the stock of Freescale Semiconductor Co. has risen from $13 to more than $25 a share. The former Motorola semiconductor division has grown from the 11th-largest to the ninth largest semiconductor business in the world, according to IC Insights, a Scottsdale-based market research firm.

PHOENIX - A former engineer at the nation's largest nuclear power plant has been charged with taking computer access codes and software to Iran and using it to download details of plant control rooms and reactors, authorities said.

REDWOOD CITY Calif. - Video games are no longer simply about getting the highest score or disgracing an opponent. They’re also about immersing yourself in makebelieve worlds you help fashion.

ON Semiconductor announced plans Thursday to double the size of its high-tech research center in Chandler.

Honeywell has awarded scholarships to 254 students from 30 countries and 30 U.S. states to attend the Honeywell Leadership Challenge Academy beginning this week at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.

An Arizona State University professor and graduate student have developed a way to measure electrical resistance in single molecules, a feat that may pave the way for molecule-sized sensors and electronic circuits.

An Arizona State University professor and graduate student have developed a way to measure electrical resistance in single molecules, a feat that may pave the way for molecule-sized sensors and electronic circuits.

Here’s a neat package for your automobile that delivers peaceof-mind security plus the convenience of a remote starter and keyless entry.

AT&T has activated three new mobile Internet cell sites in the East Valley to improve coverage for residential and business users. The wireless network expansion involves two Mesa towers at Power and Warner roads, and another at Baseline and Crismon roads. A third tower in Tempe near Scottsdale and McKellips is part of the addition.