As of 2011, General Electric has had the longest continuous presence on the index, with its latest addition being in 1907.

Dothan's economy includes agriculture, aerospace, distribution, retail and advanced technology, with Sony ( Sony closed its doors in January 2011 ), General Electric, Michelin, Dunbarton, Barrington Seafood, Qualico Steel, Pemco World Air Services and several other companies represented.

Hamm has his own Washburn signature models since 2011, the AB40SH acoustic bass and the Hammer, featuring EMG pickups, Hipshot bridge / tuners and a 3-band active EQ-followed by a fretless version ( SHBH3FLTSS ) and the Stuart Hamm Electric Bass series, introduced in January 20, 2012.

In September 2011, the band appeared at the Electric Picnic 2011 festival in Stradbally, Co Laois, Ireland.

Think Global's assets were bought by Electric Mobility Solutions AS in July 2011, including shares of wholly owned subsidiaries THINK North America and THINK UK.

The sale was completed on January 28, 2011 with General Electric owning 49 % of the newly formed NBCUniversal.

In June 2011 Shpongle played at the Electric Forest Festival with the all mighty Shpongletron

Stops included the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Exile on Bowery @ Bowery Electric in NYC and the GRAMMY Museum at L. A Live in Los Angeles. At the end of a week long RFTT tour in December 2011, Chrome announced to the band that he had decided to stop touring extensively after 2012. This has been misconstrued as his " retirement ", which is not the case. While he planned to honor any shows they booked in 2012, they chose to get another guitar player for the upcoming European tour in May 2012. Chrome remains a non-touring member of RFTT, and will record and perform with the band in the future.

In May 2011, when Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan requested Chubu Electric Power Company to shut down several of its Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plants due to safety concerns, the Yomiuri responded with criticism, calling the move " abrupt " and a difficult situation for Chubu Electric's shareholders.

File: Volvo C30 Electric WAS 2011 852. JPG | Frontal crash test of a Volvo C30 electric car

Ford debuted the all-electric Ford Focus Electric at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2011 to compete with the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt.

On January 1, 2011, Abilit Corporation was renamed to Takasago Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

In 2011 Sundazed Records reissued Psychedelic Lollipop and Electric Comic Book on limited edition ( 1000 copies ) vinyl and CD from the first generation Mercury master tapes with greatly improved sound quality compared to earlier reissues.

Saab went into bankruptcy in December 2011 but the bankruptcy estate was purchased by the National Electric Vehicle Sweden in May 2012.

Following Jack Welch's retirement from General Electric, he established the Jack Welch Management Institute ; this was acquired by Strayer University in 2011.

Additionally, this phenomenon was widely documented regarding General Electric in early 2011.

The result was a contract to supply an electric drivetrain for the North American version of the 2011 all-electric Ford Focus Electric.

For the 2011 / 2012 season NHL's Vancouver Canucks began using the Clutch song " Electric Worry " as a goal celebration song.

Har Mar and Marijuana Deathsquads teamed up for month-long residencies in Los Angeles at Spaceland ( February 2011 ), in New York City at Bowery Electric ( October 2011 ) and in Austin, Texas ( February 2012 ).

Nominated for " Rock Album of the Year " at the 2011 Juno Awards, Vancouver beat out Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones ( Cancer Bats ), Fino + Bleed ( Die Mannequin ), Life Turns Electric ( Finger Eleven ) and Population Declining ( Hail the Villain ), marking the second time Good won the award.

( Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission ) A June 2011 case casts doubt upon whether this category exists any more, or if it has been folded into the main category of speech.

Since 4 April 2011 the Commission for Energy Regulation no longer sets ESB Electric Ireland's prices, the trade off for this is that the division will be required to rebrand to remove the ESB name, to " remove confusion " between the ESB's role as operator of the electricity network and a supplier in that market.

* Patrick Wang Shui Chung-Chairman of Johnson Electric Holdings Limited ; one of Forbes ' Hong Kong's 40 Richest ( 2011 )

In 2011, the Department of Energy reported that 80-kW automotive fuel cell system costs in volume production ( projected to 500, 000 units per year ) are per kilowatt.

General Motors Company, commonly known as GM ( listed General Motors Corporation before 2009 ), is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and the world's largest automaker, by vehicle unit sales, in 2011.

In 2011 Bo Andersson received Automotive Executive of the Year Award at the International Automotive Forum organized by Adam Smith Institute, and was named a Eurostar of automotive industry in the emerging market category by the Automotive News Europe Magazine for achievements in model range renewal, establishment of cooperation between GAZ Group and leading international automakers, and positive financial results of the company in 2010.

In a January 16, 2011 news story featured in the online edition of the Peoria Journal Star, Associated Press reporter Tammy Webber reported that the oxbow lake, surrounded by a Superfund site, is polluted by high levels of metals such as zinc, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and chromium because of activity there by the smelting for the automotive and appliance industries, chiefly by ExxonMobil and CBS Corp ..

* David E. Davis ( 1930 – 2011 ), automotive journalist and founder of Automobile magazine

The category that grew the least in 2010, the arts at just 2. 7 percent — should improve in 2011 to a 5. 1 percent increase, as its two largest sponsor categories — automotive and financial services — continue to see improved overall fortunes and turn the sponsorship spigot back on.

From 2011 on, the European Union will phase out refrigerants with a global warming potential ( GWP ) of more than 150 in automotive air conditioning ( GWP = 100 year warming potential of one kilogram of a gas relative to one kilogram of CO < sub > 2 </ sub >).

In June 2011, Pep Boys acquired 7 locations from automotive repair company My Mechanic.

In 2011, Honeywell sold its automotive Consumer Products Group to Rank Group, a New Zealand private investment firm, for $ 950 million.

* June 2011, Nuance acquired SVOX, a speech technology company specializing in the automotive, mobile, and consumer electronics markets.

Hammerstein GmbH ( CRH Group ), ( automotive seat adjuster manufacturer ), To be completed in Feb 2011

Columbus Board of Zoning Adjustment approved 4-0 on December 20, 2011 for a special permit that will clear the way for developer Arshot Investment to build a half-mile racetrack, automotive research and technology center.

In 2011, the Naza Group entered into a joint venture with HELP International Corporation Bhd to establish a college of automotive and transportation management in Malaysia.

Ever since the Sixteen was first unveiled there have been resurfacing rumors, speculation and high hopes of automotive journalists and aficionados about a possible very limited production of an exclusive Cadillac halo model such as the Sixteen as the " ultimate flagship " of the brand to sit even atop of the upcoming flagship, as prievewed by the Ciel concept of late 2011.

Caltech was ranked first in the 2011 – 2012 Times Higher Education worldwide rankings of universities as well as ranking first in physical science and engineering.

Over the course of 2011, the word " hacker " gained a fourth meaning, generally referring to someone who challenges the existing order, most often using science, engineering, or information technology.

, Harvey Mudd College is tied for 14th with Grinnell College, United States Military Academy, and Washington and Lee University among liberal arts colleges in the United States as rated by the U. S. News and World Report and as of 2011, is ranked as the best undergraduate engineering program at a school whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's by U. S. News & World Report.

The 2011 QS World University Rankings placed Stanford in arts & humanities, in engineering & technology, in social sciences, in natural sciences, in life sciences, and overall.

NetKeen is a multiplayer fangame created by Lemm in 2011 by reverse engineering the Keen Galaxy / Wolf3D code and combining it with the Doom IPX network code.

The band announced on their website that they would start recording their tenth album on January 31, 2011 at the Atlantis / Metronome studios in Stockholm, once again with Jens Bogren ( engineering ) and Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree.

In November 2011, IEEE 1471-2000 was superseded by ISO / IEC / IEEE 42010: 2011, Systems and software engineering — Architecture description ( jointly published by IEEE and ISO ).

As of 2011, the institute has been ranked first in its category ( engineering colleges whose highest degree offered is a Bachelors's or Master's ) by U. S. News & World Report for 13 consecutive years ( 2000 – 2012 ).

By September 2011, Jindal had obtained clearance for the project from the EIA and had hired an engineering consultant for FEED work.

Tsinghua was ranked the 47th worldwide by QS World University Rankings in 2011, 58th worldwide by Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2010, 36th worldwide in Human Resources & Labor Review's Best World Universities 2010, 49th worldwide by US News and World Report ( USNEWS ), 13th worldwide in the category of engineering and IT by USNEWS, 2009, and ranked 151 – 200 Worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2010.

In 2011, according to University Ranking by Academic Performance ( URAP ), it is the 1st university in engineering field based ranking in the world.

The 2011 ARWU's rankings for the field of engineering, technology and computer sciences, had ranked the university 52-75 in the world and 2-3 in Canada.

The 2011 QS rankings had also ranked the university 56th in the world, for the field of engineering and information technology.

Additionally, the 2011 QS rankings had also ranked the university 41st in the world, and fourth in Canada for the discipline of civil and structural engineering.

In the 2011 URAP rankings, Waterloo's research performance in the field of engineering was ranked 43rd in the world, and second in Canada.

In the 2011 HEEACT rankings, Waterloo's research performance in the field of engineering was ranked 74th in the world, and second in Canada.

On December 19, 2011, a bid by a consortium of Cornell University and Technion won a competition to establish a new high-tier applied science and engineering institution in New York City.

In India, among engineering colleges, it ranked # 3 by Outlook India in 2012, and # 1 by Dataquest in 2011.

* On December 16, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Horizontal Systems, a provider of cloud-based BIM ( Building Information Modeling ) collaboration solutions for the AEC ( architecture, engineering and construction ) industry.

Leik Myrabo was an aerospace engineering professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, retiring in 2011.

Following the November, 2011 Spanish General Election, on June 1, 2012 the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy reopened the monument to the public with the exception only of the base of the cross, in the past accessible by cable car or on foot, which will remain closed to ascent while the sculptures of the four apostles and the cardinal virtues forming part of the base of the cross are presently under engineering review and restoration for cracks and other deterioration.

In its 2011 and 2012 surveys amongst human resources officers, the Wirtschaftswoche business magazine consistently ranked RWTH Aachen the first in Germany in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering and natural sciences, with computer science being ranked third in 2011 and second in 2012.