Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions

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    • Making Texas Green 

      Michaelides, Efstathios E. (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 ...

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

      Kosowatz, John (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 ...

    • 500 Years After Apollo 

      Winters, Jeffrey (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 ...

    • Contesting the High Ground 

      Wolverton, Mark (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Despite the popular belief that space is peaceful, the military has always had a large, but often hidden, role. Today, however, space is far more crowded and more economically and militarily valuable. That means more ...

    • The Return of Manned Missions 

      Sethi, Chitra (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      The United States space program has been without a launch vehicle for human spaceflight since 2011. That was when the space shuttle Atlantis returned on its final flight. Since then, NASA has relied on the Russian Soyuz ...

    • Apollo Remembered 

      O′Heir, Jeff (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 ...

    • All of Us Must Work to Put Him There 

      Dicht, Burton (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 ...

    • Old and New 

      Langston, Lee S. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      As prime movers go, gas turbines are virtually brand new, compared to, say, wind and water turbines which have been around for millennia. But they have also reached a considerable level of maturity. Gas turbines now dominate ...

    • Disaster Reconnaissance Using Multiple Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

      Derricott, Jeffrey C.; Willis, Jacob B.; Peterson, Cameron K.; Franke, Kevin W.; Hedengren, John D. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Small rotorcraft unmanned air vehicles (sUAVs) are valuable tools in solving geospatial inspection challenges. One area where this is being widely explored is disaster reconnaissance [1]. Using sUAVs to collect images ...

    • Electric Highway 

      E. Webber, Michael (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Electric and autonomous vehicles will change the layout and rhythm of our lives. Entwined with this story of change are the fuels and forms of energy we used to enable the engines and motors to propel us forward. In this ...

    • Looking Back Over the 6+ Years of the DSC Magazine 

      Meckl, Peter (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Since this is the last issue of the DSC magazine in its current form, this article is a chance to look back over the years and reflect on what the magazine offered over that time.

    • Blockchain Enables New Power Markets 

      Kosowatz, John (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. ...

    • Gas Turbine Powered Campus Update 

      Langston, Lee S. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      An updated report is given on the University of Connecticut’s gas turbine combined heat and power plant, now in operation for 13 years after its start in 2006. It has supplied the Storrs Campus with all of its electricity, ...

    • Additive Manufacturing for Serial Production of High-Performance Metal Parts 

      Siebold, Markus (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 ...

    • The New Industrial Data Economy 

      Lieuwen, Tim; Noble, Bobby (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      Data-driven approaches are increasingly valuable as our ability to store massive amounts of it, the computational power to crunch through it, and the advanced analytics to make sense of it have come to maturity. These ...

    • The Drone and the Honey Bee 

      Zeldovich, Lina (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      While scientists rush to pin down the cause of colony collapse disorder and race to find a cure, engineers have wondered whether we might one day supplement real bees with mechanical ones. Called DelFly, a miniature robot ...

    • The State of American Manufacturing 2019 

      Brown, Alan S. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)
      U.S. manufacturers had a great 2018, but concerns continue to accompany every positive trend. There were some bright spots as well as concerns - both count because manufacturing still matters. It accounts for 70 percent ...

    • Toward Gradient-Based Optimization of Full Gas Turbines 

      Verstraete, Tom (The 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 

      Langston, Lee S. (The 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 ...

    • Model-Guided Data-Driven Optimization for Automotive Compression Ignition Engine Systems 

      Tan, Qingyuan; Chen, Xiang; Tan, Ying; Zheng, Ming (The 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 ...