Michael Alba Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor at engineering.com. He covers computer hardware, design software, electronics, and more. Michael holds a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Alberta.

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Simulation

Nvidia boasts 50x faster simulation at GTC 2025

March 18, 2025

The chipmaker says its Blackwell processors have led to “an inflection point in engineering design.”

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Design

Renesas’ $5.91B Altium acquisition bears fruit

March 11, 2025

Design

3DLive on the Apple Vision Pro: Q&A with Tom Acland

March 6, 2025

Design

AI can now use Solidworks

March 4, 2025

Design

Battling ghosts at 3DExperience World 2025

February 25, 2025

Simulation

AI in Onshape and on ships

February 18, 2025

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Design

Onshape AI Advisor is coming soon—here’s everything we know

February 14, 2025

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Design

What are “3D UNIV+RSES”, Dassault Systèmes’ latest creation?

February 11, 2025

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Design

Onshape launches CAM Studio, the last piece of the cloud CAD puzzle

February 4, 2025

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Simulation

Fusion AutoConstrain is now live—and it might actually be useful

January 28, 2025

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Design

AI takes on sketching and drawings in Autodesk Fusion

January 27, 2025

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Design

Nemetschek Group’s new AI Assistant is a start—but a small one

January 21, 2025

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Design

Fun times before the CAD revolution

January 14, 2025

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Design

For engineers, AI anticipation continues in 2025

January 7, 2025

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Simulation

Simulation trends for 2025: Get ready for AI and surrogate models

December 31, 2024

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Simulation

The best updates in Comsol Multiphysics 6.3: “Let the computer do all the work for you”

December 20, 2024

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Simulation

Onshape startups to get SimScale free for 3 months

December 17, 2024

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