Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions
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The New Industrial Data Economy
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Real-Time Co-optimization of Vehicle Route and Speed Using Generic Algorithm for Improved Fuel Economy
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...