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Collaborations that Forge the Future
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/18/2023 )A recent research initiative promoted with federal funding provides an excellent example of how ASME continues to push the boundary toward cleaner, more efficient transportation. -
New Horizons for Geothermal Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The geothermal heat resource is not limited the way fuel or iron or other materials are. But the low efficiency of geothermal power systems is unsatisfying and contributes to often-poor economics. To improve efficiency, ... -
War Dogs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)As robots become more advanced and more autonomous, they will be asked to do tasks that humans need done, but don’t want to do themselves. Unfortunately, in some cases, those tasks may include going to war. Ghost Robotics ... -
What the Home of the Future is Missing Today
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A few household robots are on the market today. But, none of those could be confused with Rosie the Robot, the muliply capable robot on The Jetsons. That raises the question: As technology advances, what will it take for ... -
Silicon Continent
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)While agriculture and natural resources have been the main exports for Sub-Saharan Africa, investment in high tech and digital technologies is beginning to build. Across the continent, bets on high-tech manufacturing are ... -
Gaining Altitude
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Annual surveys of the gas turbine industry began in 1999. Over that time, the industry as a whole has seen steady growth with two large anomalies, including the plunge produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. In both the zoomed ... -
The Case for Waste to Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)There is a better way of handling MSW that is not or cannot be recycled: thermal conversion, also called waste to energy. These facilities feed waste into a combustion chamber with air and incinerate it. The heat released ... -
Supply Chain Kinks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)GM, Ford, and other automakers are chasing Tesla in the manufacture and marketing of electric vehicles. In turn this is sparking an upheaval the auto industry has not seen since Henry Ford’s Model T, which introduced ... -
Manufacturing and the Great Resignation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The stress test of the COVID-19 pandemic uncovered vulnerabilities in the global supply chain, and subsequent shortages indicate they may not be displaying the robustness needed to cope with the increased level of economic ... -
Ripple Effect
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)As we enter the third year of the COVID era, it is crucial that policymakers and manufacturers revisit the medical supply chain. We all need to better understand how the Defense Production Act can distort the supply chain ... -
Built for Speed
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The Drone Racing League holds contests between pilots flying UAVs through obstacle courses. The league's aspirations are more than just providing exhilarating races, however. It is working to innovate drone technology at ... -
Climate of Optimism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Expressions of optimism in the world's ability to tackle climate change often meet disbelief. This energy expert lays out the case for why we wil succeed against climate change, and do it faster than most people anticipate. -
Made in New York
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The eight digester towers at New York City's Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant seamlessly convert sewage into biogas and a dirt-like output, similar to how Mother Nature would do it. At 145 feet high and 80 feet in ... -
Public Health is a Job for Engineers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Instead of waiting to fight diseases inside the human body, engineering can establish lines of defense further out by either intercepting and neutralizing the pathogens before they reach humans or diluting them so much ... -
Watts in Store
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Lithium-ion batteries are reliable and getting progressively cheaper, but generally deliver full power capacity for no more than four hours. But for renewable energy to fully replace fossil fuels, energy storage systems ... -
A Century of ASME Steam Tables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)ASME began working on developing its steam tables, which list standardized thermodynamic properties for water in its vapor, liquid, and supercritical states, at a meeting in Cambridge, Mass., on June 23, 1921. It took ... -
Between Worlds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Relatively few Native Americans become engineers. The barriers to increasing those numbers are issues such as poverty, poor schools, and a lack of role models. In this article, Native American engineers talk about their ... -
Digital-Skilled Jobs of Tomorrow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The current engineering labor force may not be equipped to manage the new digital tools employers want to utilize. -
Making the Split Decision
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Mid-careers engineers often reach a crossroad, needing to decide between continuing down the technical career pathway and pursuing a master’s in business administration, or MBA, and becoming a manager. What the path they ... -
Enduring Edge
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The degree to which technical skills are needed for new graduates and early career engineers is hotly debated. By some standards, deep knowledge of digital engineering technologies has never been more important or so hard ...