Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Where Are Today’s Engineering Jobs?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Demand for engineers across all disciplines, especially mechanical engineering, is very high as U.S. industries look to ramp up what they hope is a post-pandemic economy. They also may enjoy more relaxed working conditions ... -
How Engineers Are Thriving Today
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The engineering profession today is in a state of change. Events like COVID-19 and climate change have pushed new emerging technologies to the forefront and are driving engineers into new tech spaces. Today’s mechanical ... -
Shoring Up the Front Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)When offices and workplaces reopen, HVAC systems will be the first line of defense against spread of viruses like the coronavirus. The technology to provide defense against microbes already exists. Unfortunately, the urgency ... -
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 ... -
Partners in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)New artificial intelligence and machine learning applications are found in many popular CAD platforms today and will be even more capable in the near future. As AI/ML solutions become more pervasive in different areas of ... -
Underground and Out of Sight
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Workers recently finished the last piece of tunnel for Kuala Lumpur’s second metro line, capping a program where autonomous tunneling machines have been operating remotely since 2016. Getting to that point took a poke by ... -
Piped Gas Fuels GT Power Plant Growth
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In the last 10 years the growth of America’s natural gas fueled, gas turbine power plants have flourished in its lower 48 states. They are replacing older coal-fueled steam turbine power plants, ending a century’s-old ... -
Taking the Measure of Electric Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)An engineer with more than 45 years’ experience on efficiency claims takes a look at whether electric vehicles are much more efficient than conventional cars powered by internal combustion engines. He found that EVs are ... -
Education from a Distance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)When the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused schools across the country to close their classrooms, colleges and universities shifted to online education. Just as many professional spaces had to adjust to working from ... -
Guarding the Gate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)To keep symptomatic workers from infecting entire businesses, employers are resorting to temperature -
Printing for Protection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)After seeing a number of projects trying to help frontline workers, Josef Průša decided to produce face shields with both 3D printed and laser-cut plastic components. -
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. -
Filtering Out Microbes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A new HVAC filter, developed through a collaboration of Houston-based medical real estate developer Medistar and researchers at the University of Houston and Texas A&M University, uses a heated filter made -
Cleaning With UV Light
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in China in early 2020, the autonomous disinfecting robots from UVD Robots saw massive interest from companies looking to sanitize and sterilize their places of business. -
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 ... -
Engineers in Action
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The editors of Mechanical Engineering magazine recognize technologists who developed a robot that can sterilize hospital rooms, a filter that can kill microbes in HVAC systems, an autonomous droid that delivers food, a ... -
The Effect of Heat Transfer on Turbine Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)For over 50 years, high-pressure gas turbine blades have been cooled using air bled from the compressor. This cooling results in very high rates of heat transfer, both within the fluid and within the blade, shown in figure ... -
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 ...