Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions

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    • Real-Time Co-optimization of Vehicle Route and Speed Using Generic Algorithm for Improved Fuel Economy 

      Zhu, Guoming G.; Miao, Chengsheng (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Making future vehicles intelligent with improved fuel economy and satisfactory emissions are the main drivers for current vehicle research and development. The connected and autonomous vehicles still need years or decades ...

    • U.S. Navy Lays the Keel for 3-D Printing 

      Kosowatz, John (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      The U.S. Navy builds and sails some of the world’s largest and most powerful vessels and those ships depend on a wide range of advanced systems and machinery to operate. Now, the Navy is moving toward advanced manufacturing ...

    • Glitter Bombs Aren’t Rocket Science 

      Lawrence, Carol (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Fed up of the mail left in front of his house getting stolen every so often, a California-based engineer Mark Rober built a glitter bomb to trick parcel thieves. The glitter bomb certainly did that, surprising and shaming ...

    • Robots to the Rescue 

      Zeldovich, Lina (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Robots are becoming increasingly important responders, joining search and rescue teams in their missions. Besides being able to traverse contaminated and dangerous areas, these robots bring a different set of skills to ...

    • Making Texas Green 

      Michaelides, Efstathios E. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Texas is proud of its oil and gas industry, but the state is blessed with abundant solar and wind power potential. Tapping that potential requires more than simply building out more wind turbines and solar panels–Texas ...

    • Vital Design 

      Sukel, Kayt (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Engineering and medicine has been intertwined for a very long time and in the recent years the relationship has been getting stronger and more important to the advance of healthcare. Surgeons and engineers are collaborating ...

    • Second Nature 

      Goudarzi, Sara (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Animals are the key to discovering new, physical ways of dealing with the world—to learning how to accomplish difficult tasks that many life forms undertake very efficiently like moving around, eating, drinking, storing ...

    • As Predictable as the Tides 

      Knapschaefer, Johanna (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, ...

    • Heat in a Bottle 

      Forsberg, Charles W. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Concentrated solar plants have been designed to store thermal energy so as to produce power after sundown, but heat storage should also be of interest to operators of nuclear power plants. Adding heat storage to light-water ...

    • Startup Suns 

      Winters, Jeffery (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      A number of startups have attracted millions of dollars from tech investors with the goal to buld a commercial fusion reactor by the end of the next decade. Befitting the merging of plasma physics and startup culture, each ...

    • Standard Advantage 

      Craige, Larry (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Proper fabrication and regular inspection of chemical holding tanks can head off problems before they become serious. But those steps entail a cost that many companies often would rather put off. So far, only Delaware has ...

    • Requiem for Rethink Robotics 

      Lawrence, Carol (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Universal Robots and Rethink Robotics burst onto the scene ten years ago with seemingly similar breakthrough products—collaborative robots, or cobots—that were safe enough to work next to people on the factory floor. Rethink ...

    • 5G Unleashes the Future 

      Shah, Agam (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 ...

    • New Manufacturing Takes Flight 

      O’Heir, Jeff (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Pratt & Whitney’s Industry 4.0 initiative marks a major transformation from the labor-intensive manual processes that once defined manufacturing to those that are now digitized and automated. The changes here helped ...