Recently added articles from Mechanical Engineering-CIME:
Leadership for changing times.(editorial)
Jul 01, 2008; Falcioni, John G. ... Cars now talk to us. Phones take photos and play music. Prosthetic limbs are wired to human nerve impulses and are approaching the degrees of freedom of human hands. There have been more technology-attributed changes in the past 30 years than in the previous 10,000 years. As ...
In the pipeline.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Merriman, Bethany B. ... To the Editor: This letter is in response to Robert Davis's letter to the editor (March) concerning the articles "Widening the Pipeline" and "Putting the Cool in School" (January). I do agree with some of Mr. Davis's statements, but I am very offended by others. I have always been against ...
No preference.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Burch, Catherine ... To the Editor: I take exception to men who assume that I desire preferential treatment because I am a (gasp!) woman working in a man's world. My grandfather, a mechanical engineer and a long-time member of ASME, fostered in all of his grand-daughters a love of learning and a curiosity ...
Music to their ears.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Somerville, Jim ... To the Editor: Regarding "Raising Baby Engineer" (Mechanical Engineering Online, January). <Pre>Night, night, Hayley (or Andy),Daddy's little baby,You're the brightest star in the universe.You're a baby engineer. </Pre> It doesn't hurt to sing the right ...
Human factors.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Fisher, Kenneth ... To the Editor: An item I would like to have someone put human factors engineering to, as with the iPod described in "The New Point of View" (February) is the marking on electronic equipment. More particularly, TVs and stereos. For some reason, today's designers think small gray or dull ...
Leak resistance.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Chivers, Terry ... To the Editor: The February issue contained an excellent and informative article on the development of a helium-cooled pebble bed nuclear reactor ("Pebbles Making Waves"). In the 1970s, the U.K. was interested in the development of a high-temperature, helium-cooled reactor as an ...
Nuclear hydrogen.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Robinson, Charles ... To the Editor: Because of the high-temperatures produced in the pebble bed reactor design, the high temperature helium can be used to crack steam into hydrogen. Having this inexpensive source of hydrogen could propel the hydrogen economy, allowing us to gain oil independence ...
Forget warming.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Policelli, James M. ... To the Editor: In the Global Gas Turbine Supplement (May), Dr. Reza S. Abhari's article, "The Link Between Climate Change and Turbomachines," does great disservice to turbine professionals. Over time, we have labored to improve turbine utilization, performance, and efficiency because it ...
Reclaiming a limb.(news & notes)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Brown, Alan S. ... The video is startling. Less than two hours after being outfitted with a prosthetic arm, an amputee who lost both arms 13 years ago pours a drink and then feeds himself. The arm is the work of DEKA Research, the product development company headed by Dean Kamen, who designed the ...
Engineering HR firm heads for high school.(news & notes)(partnerships)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Winters, Jeffrey ... Kelly Engineering Resources, a business unit of Kelly Services Inc., has entered a partnership with the National Academy Foundation to provide money and expertise to the foundation's new engineering education program. The program, known as the Academies of Engineering, will prepare ...
Minor in engineering.(news & notes)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Thilmany, Jean ... The first Iowa State University students who minored--not minored--in engineering graduated earlier this spring. The minor is designed for students who don't want to become engineers, but are interested in technology and in the way engineers work, according to the program's ...
[H.sub.2] car making progress.(news & notes)
Jul 01, 2008; Brown, Alan S. ... So how close are we to a hydrogen fuel car? A new study by the National Research Council finds that major barriers remain, but says the potential to reduce oil dependence and harmful emissions justifies the cost of the research. The study examined the Freedom-CAR and Fuel ...
Cutting-edge exchange.(news & notes)
Jul 01, 2008; Hutchinson, Harry ... NASA is launching a program in which it will place its employees with U.S. companies and organizations involved in what it considers "cutting-edge innovation." NASA calls it the Innovation Transfusion Program. Under the program, employees on NASA's payroll can spend as long as ...
Finalists line up for innovation showcase.(news & notes)(ASME International)
Jul 01, 2008; Hutchinson, Harry ... Ten teams of students will get a shot at turning their inventiveness into a business in the ASME Innovation Showcase this fall. The value of joining the competition isn't so much the $10,000 first prize as it is learning how to develop a business plan and present it to potential investors ....
ASME and the Standards Organization of Nigeria last month formed an agreement that would enable both organizations to play a joint role in the development of standards and conformity assessment programs beneficial to the Nigerian national economy.(Briefly Noted)(American Society Of Mechanical Engineers )(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... ASME and the Standards Organization of Nigeria last month formed an agreement that would enable both organizations to play a joint role in the development of standards and conformity assessment programs beneficial to the Nigerian national economy. Under terms of a memorandum of ...
FARO Technologies Inc.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... FARO Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, will expand operations to sell its products in Mexico ....
ASME.(Briefly Noted)(American Society Of Mechanical Engineers)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... ASME dedicated two Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks in May: Texas Instruments' Digital Micro-mirror Device, an optical micromachine of the sort that powers a variety of display ...
Dassault Systemes.(Briefly Noted)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Dassault Systemes of Paris has released Abaqus 6.8, its ...
Altair Engineering.(Briefly Noted)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Altair Engineering of Troy, Mich., has upgraded its ...
TireStamp Corp. of Troy, Mich., a manufacturer of tire pressure monitoring and asset management technology, announced that Baltimore-based Cambridge Iron and Metal has selected TireStamp's TireVigil Pro system for monitoring the tires on its fleet of trucks.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... TireStamp Corp. of Troy, Mich., a manufacturer of tire pressure monitoring and asset management technology, announced that Baltimore-based Cambridge Iron and Metal has selected TireStamp's Tire Vigil Pro system for monitoring the tires on its fleet of trucks. The Cambridge fleet hauls ...