Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Making Texas Green
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...