Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions
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10 Smart Startups
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Superstar Cities are known for their technology startups, but innovative companies are popping up all over the United States. To show the diversity of innovation outside the so-called innovation hubs, this article spotlights ... -
The Infinitely Expandable Resource
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)While many engineers look to develop new, clean energy sources, Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute has spent 40 years preaching that the cleanest fuel is efficiency. His team’s designs for buildings and vehicles ... -
Innovation in the Time of COVID-19
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Engineers are accustomed to collaborating with multidisciplinary teams while working with physical prototypes. In the age of COVID-19, that is often impossible. This article delves into how some engineers have learned to ... -
Automating the Risk Out of Farming
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The farming and agriculture industry has had its fair share of problems over the last decade. Bottlenecks in the supply chain and the lack of risk management and flexibility led to increasing food waste, and the labor ... -
Come Fly with Me
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Each year, flight enthusiasts from all over the globe descend on Oshkosh, Wis., for Air Venture, to see fighter jet fly-bys, world-class aerobatics, and outstanding fire works. But this past year, one of the highlights of ... -
Cutting the Carbon from Concrete
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The production of concrete is responsible, by some estimates, for as much as 10 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, enough to be considered a major contributor. Given the impact that has now become apparent, research ... -
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 ...