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IEN Radio

Radio for manufacturing and engineering professionals. New industrial products, news and technical articles.

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Update frequency
every day
Average duration
2 minutes
Episodes
943
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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Aerospace Startup Aims to Cross the Pacific in an Hour

Aerospace Startup Aims to Cross the Pacific in an Hour

It’s been nearly 20 years since the end of the Concorde put supersonic passenger air travel on hold, but startups and industry giants alike are working on ways to not only fly beyond the sound barrie…

00:01:43  |   Wed 20 Apr 2022
Airbus Jet Flies on Cooking Oil

Airbus Jet Flies on Cooking Oil

Cooking oils are crucial for frying all the foods that make life so worth living. But after they fulfill their destiny and get our jalapeno poppers nice and golden brown, they are also often used as …

00:02:14  |   Tue 19 Apr 2022
SpaceX Competitor to Attempt Mid-Air Rocket Grab

SpaceX Competitor to Attempt Mid-Air Rocket Grab

This might come as a surprise to some of you, but SpaceX is not the only name in privatized space launching services. For example, Long Beach, CA-based Rocket Lab has had 25 successful launches since…

00:02:32  |   Mon 18 Apr 2022
DOL Finds Pay Practices Abusive to Warehouse Workers

DOL Finds Pay Practices Abusive to Warehouse Workers

The U.S. Department of Labor’s investigators and attorneys are working to prevent companies along the United States-Mexico border from exploiting Mexican workers. 

Wage and Hour Division investigators…

00:01:40  |   Thu 14 Apr 2022
French Fry Plant's 'Suspicious' Potato Turns Out to Be Grenade

French Fry Plant's 'Suspicious' Potato Turns Out to Be Grenade

Night shift workers at a New Zealand french fry factory were rattled by an unusual discovery last week that ended with a call to the bomb squad.

Richard Teurukura, a worker at the Mr Chips factory in …

00:01:27  |   Mon 11 Apr 2022
Blunder Hampers Boeing’s Air Force One Production

Blunder Hampers Boeing’s Air Force One Production

Another tough headline is about the last thing Boeing needed.

The entire global aviation sector suffered in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Boeing has also faced production issues with its 787 …

00:01:25  |   Fri 08 Apr 2022
Log Book Reveals All the Cars That Sank on Felicity Ace

Log Book Reveals All the Cars That Sank on Felicity Ace

It’s been a big year of cargo ship disasters, and so we’ll forgive you if you have a short memory for the individual catastrophes which have befallen global shipping in recent months.

If the name Feli…

00:02:09  |   Thu 07 Apr 2022
Manufacturing Heads to Space

Manufacturing Heads to Space

Last summer, Jeff Bezos spent 11 minutes in space and determined that it would be best for the planet to move all polluting industries to space. Now, we've heard of many theories, everything from 3D …

00:02:28  |   Mon 04 Apr 2022
Former Engineer Convicted after ‘Textbook Example’ of Industrial Espionage

Former Engineer Convicted after ‘Textbook Example’ of Industrial Espionage

A federal jury convicted a former general electric power engineer of conspiracy to commit economic espionage. The decision followed a four-week jury trial. 


The offender, Xiaoqing Zheng, worked at GE …

00:01:38  |   Mon 04 Apr 2022
More Thieves Strike Stellantis, Steal Rams, Challenger Hellcats

More Thieves Strike Stellantis, Steal Rams, Challenger Hellcats

Reports have recently emerged regarding thefts of brand new vehicles from factory storage lots in the Detroit area, and unfortunately it’s not the first time.

In 2018, then-Fiat Chrysler fell victim t…

00:01:55  |   Thu 24 Mar 2022
Red Bull Stunt Will Have Pilots Switch Planes in Mid-Air

Red Bull Stunt Will Have Pilots Switch Planes in Mid-Air

If Red Bull really does give you wings, then now is the time.
For years, the maker of the energy drink has sponsored an array of the most outrageous stunts in the name of marketing. These have include…

00:01:52  |   Tue 22 Mar 2022
Aston Martin's Last Fossil-Fuel V12 Vantage

Aston Martin's Last Fossil-Fuel V12 Vantage

Aston Martin has revealed the final edition of its V12 Vantage sports car. As the automaker plans to introduce its first fully-electric vehicle in 2025 and offer an electric option in all new car lin…

00:01:53  |   Mon 21 Mar 2022
Fukushima Quake Knocks Down Chipmaker

Fukushima Quake Knocks Down Chipmaker

When it comes to the global supply chain for high-demand semiconductors, if it’s not one thing, it’s another. And it seems just as analysts were hinting at a future reprieve from bottlenecks, there’s…

00:02:14  |   Fri 18 Mar 2022
Tesla Employee Fired for YouTube Tech Reviews

Tesla Employee Fired for YouTube Tech Reviews

Whenever a Tesla employee gets fired, it seems to make headlines. In this instance, John Bernal, a former Autopilot employee at Tesla, was fired last month because of video reviews he conducted on hi…

00:02:03  |   Thu 17 Mar 2022
Western Sanctions Crush Russian Automaker

Western Sanctions Crush Russian Automaker

At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, Soviet officials joined with Italian automaker Fiat to form a state-owned Russian car company.

Over the decades, the brand that came to be known as Lada bec…

00:01:43  |   Mon 14 Mar 2022
Rare Toyota Racer Sells for $2.5M

Rare Toyota Racer Sells for $2.5M

A rare Toyota sold for $2.535 million at Gooding & Co.’s Amelia Island collector car auction to earn the achievement of the most valuable Japanese car sold at auction, according to CNN Business

It w…

00:02:03  |   Fri 11 Mar 2022
The Military’s Biggest Threat: Video Games

The Military’s Biggest Threat: Video Games

Last month the Military Health System put out a release that helped justify my father’s reasoning for ignoring my ongoing pleas for a Nintendo Entertainment System during my formative years – video g…

00:02:25  |   Thu 10 Mar 2022
NASA Seeing if ‘Space Shotgun’ Could Save Earth

NASA Seeing if ‘Space Shotgun’ Could Save Earth

If movies like Deep Impact and its superior, Armageddon, have taught us anything, it is to be wary of massive pieces of space rock that threaten our very way of life. 

Luckily, people much brighter th…

00:01:52  |   Wed 09 Mar 2022
Helicopter Maker Abandons New Factory

Helicopter Maker Abandons New Factory

The company had planned to “conquer” the U.S. market. In early 2019, a Swiss helicopter manufacturer held a press conference to tout its plans to “conquer” the U.S. market from its new factory in sou…

00:01:46  |   Tue 08 Mar 2022
Heroic Factory Worker Saved Lives in Deadly Tornado Aftermath

Heroic Factory Worker Saved Lives in Deadly Tornado Aftermath

On the night of December 10th, the Mayfield Consumer Products candle plant in Mayfield, Kentucky was demolished by a tornado that reduced it to rubble. Eight workers lost their lives, but the death t…

00:02:28  |   Mon 07 Mar 2022
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