Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions
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The State of American Manufacturing 2020
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The second half of 2019 was not good for manufacturing. Demand dropped, hiring sputtered, and tariffs forced producers to reconfigure supply chains on the fly. Going into 2020, the picture suddenly brightened. Demand, ... -
Resilient Technologies Battling Climate Change
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Resilience technology can endure and overcome the ever-changing climate and natural disasters occurring in our world. As the world's temperature continues to rise, there has been an increase in the intensity and frequency ... -
Recycling Robots
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Robots have functioned for years on assembly lines, such as in automotive plants, where they perform the same task repetitively. This article explores how companies are coupling robotics with artificial intelligence in ... -
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 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 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 ... -
Desktop Bots
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Robotic process automation (RPA) that grew up in the financial world has begun to edge its way into engineering and manufacturing, for applications like change management, compliance, and bill of materials. This article ... -
New Sails for Old Ships
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The world’s 100,000 cargo ships produce about as much carbon emissions as Germany. One of the ways to reduce those emissions (and slash fuel costs) is to borrow a technology from the past and harness wind power. By harnessing ... -
Termodynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)We humans like to congratulate ourselves for our ingenuity. Yet nature’s passive designs often outperform our expensive, energy-hungry technologies. And while engineers and architects can improve their designs by mimicking ... -
Rocket-Hammer Man
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)James Hobson, a mechanical engineer better known as The Hacksmith, has fashioned a YouTube career from building real-world versions of video game and comic book gadgets—Make It Real videos. Like every inventor, Hobson has ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Second Nature
(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 ... -
Glitter Bombs Aren’t Rocket Science
(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 ... -
Vital Design
(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 ... -
Toward Gradient-Based Optimization of Full Gas Turbines
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The design of a full gas turbine is a painstaking process, with many interactions between different physics, components, and engineers. Not surprisingly, this is an effort spanning over many years before a compromise can ... -
Hydrogen Fueled Gas Turbines
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Hydrogen, reacting with oxygen, is a very energetic, non-polluting fuel. Can it be used as a fuel for gas turbines? Two successful and significant examples of its use are reviewed. Surplus renewable electrical energy from ... -
Real-Time Co-optimization of Vehicle Route and Speed Using Generic Algorithm for Improved Fuel Economy
(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 ... -
Model-Guided Data-Driven Optimization for Automotive Compression Ignition Engine Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Essentially, the performance improvement of automotive systems is a multi-objective optimization problem [1-1–4] due to the challenges in both operation management and control. The interconnected dynamics inside the ... -
Robots to the Rescue
(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 ...