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10 Influential Women in Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)There are many influential women—educators, innovators, leaders—who are not only breaking the stereotype but are also role models and mentors for the next generation of female engineers. This article spotlights 10 women ... -
10 Innovative Institutes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Engineering is a major that is continuously evolving. To meet the demand of a changing world, educational institutions are implementing new instructional models that can rise to the changes occurring today and tomorrow. ... -
10 Smart Cities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Politicians and urban planners have been laying the groundwork to leverage technology to meet the demands of growing urban population and provide greater efficiencies in delivering services in the quest to create smart ... -
10 Smart Startups
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Superstar Cities are known for their technology startups, but innovative companies are popping up all over the United States. To show the diversity of innovation outside the so-called innovation hubs, this article spotlights ... -
500 Years After Apollo
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The Moon landing in 1969 was a cause for worldwide awe, by the 500th anniversary in 2469 space technologies may be so commonplace and so critical to human society that it will be impossible for anyone alive to fully ... -
5G Unleashes the Future
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The new data sharing network that defines so many technical applications would be almost impossible without 5G. Because it transmits data more efficiently, 5G has the potential to be 40 times faster and suffer shorter lag ... -
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 ... -
Adding Energy Storage to the Combined Cycle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The efficient natural gas Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) has driven a substantial reduction in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, while gas turbine peaking plants also provide backup for variable renewable resources. As ... -
Additive Manufacturing for Serial Production of High-Performance Metal Parts
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Additive manufacturing (AM) is a process that builds parts layer-by-layer from sliced CAD models to form solid objects. Just a few years ago, 3D printing was primarily used for rapid prototyping. Due to improvements in ... -
All of Us Must Work to Put Him There
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)When President John F. Kennedy set the goal for landing astronauts on the Moon, NASA was an organization less than three years old and had achieved only 15 minutes of human spaceflight experience. Some experts doubted ... -
Apollo Remembered
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, engineers across the country are reflecting on what turned out for many to be the most important, memorable, and influential job they’ve held throughout long and satisfying careers. A ... -
As Predictable as the Tides
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The first live test is underway off Maine for a new technology that relies on strong tides and currents to power underwater generators. It took innovative engineering and precision execution to make the first test happen, ... -
Aspects of Gas Turbine Thermal Efficiency
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the family of heat engines, the gas turbine is unique in that it is used to produce two different kinds of useful power. By converting combusted fuel heat into work, a gas turbine engine can produce external shaft power ... -
Atomic Scale
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Large nuclear power plants are becoming increasingly difficult to site and build. The solution, say some nuclear advocates, is to give up on gigawatt-scale, bespoke plants and—following in the footsteps of other energy ... -
Automating the Risk Out of Farming
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The farming and agriculture industry has had its fair share of problems over the last decade. Bottlenecks in the supply chain and the lack of risk management and flexibility led to increasing food waste, and the labor ... -
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 ... -
Biotechnology Anticipates 4D Printing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Rapid advancements in 3D printing that have fueled the development of advanced manufacturing applications are well-known. New printing techniques and their ability to print objects from a growing variety of materials such ... -
Blockchain Enables New Power Markets
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Traditional generating stations that produce baseload power measured in hundreds of megawatts are either closing or struggling, unable to compete with inexpensive power produced by solar, wind, or natural gas-burning plants. ... -
Bringing the Goods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In the spring, when the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic finally sank in, people realized that interactions as benign as accepting a delivered pizza could carry the risk of virus transmission. Enter the delivery robot. -
Building Cities on the Sea
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)As sea level rise threatens cities across the globe, engineers are looking at relocating giant pieces of infrastructure to buoyant buildings, or very large floating structures. What had once seemed like an exercise in ...