Recently added articles from Mechanical Engineering-CIME:
Question of the month.(www.memagazine.org)
Jun 01, 2009 ... QUESTION OF THE MONTH: In an essay called, "An Icon for the MEs," in the May issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine, Satyandra K. Gupta, of the University of Maryland, suggested that a relevant symbol may be a persuasive way to represent mechanical engineering favorably to non-engineers ....
Celebrating our standards.(ASME International )(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... FROM A DISTANCE, one would think there's little glamour involved in ASME's Codes and Standards program. The process is highly technical and, at times, seemingly mind-numbing. But when it comes to developing some of the world's most important technical codes and standards, ...
April clippings.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 01, 2009; ... To the Editor: I really enjoyed this issue of the ME magazine (April). I am making copies of the baseball articles for our baseball coach here at Auburn, copies of the ball bearing article for my new Ph.D. student, who is going into micromanufacturing, and a copy of the Jay Leno page for ...
Energy concerns.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 01, 2009; ... To the Editor: Non-engineers discuss energy without understanding it. We have a higher responsibility. We mechanical engineers know that the preponderance of heat from fuels and nuclear reactors is discarded into cooling water and hot exhaust. We call it entropy. We conveniently ...
Seeing red.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 01, 2009; ... To the Editor: Do you realize how insulting your article "The Many Shades of Green" (January) is to older engineers like me? It implies that until the idea of being "green" came into vogue, manufacturers and the engineers they employed were cavalierly and recklessly wasting materials and ...
Correction.(letters)(Correction notice)
Jun 01, 2009 ... An editing error misidentified one of the authors in the April issue. Steven Kerno is an Affiliated Scholar with the ...
Two peaking units completed.(NEWS & NOTES)(Tampa Electric Co.)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Contruction has been completed on two 60-megawatt gas-fired peaking units at Tampa Electric Co.'s H.L. Culbreath Bayside Power Station near Tampa Bay. The company plans to add three more peaking units, due to be in commercial operation by September 2009. The five together will ...
Forecasting a growth market.(NEWS & NOTES)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The business of nondestructive test equipment is expected to continue growing even in the troubled economy, largely because of demand from emerging economies, especially in the Asia Pacific region, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan. The report, "World Nondestructive Test (NDT) ...
Test drive a laser scanner.(NEWS & NOTES)(Faro Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A manufacturer of 3-D measurement technology, FARO Technologies Inc., is offering potential customers in North America a four-month test run of its equipment for a monthly fee. Under the program, which the company calls the FARO Technology Test Drive, customers can use ...
Math anxiety.(NEWS & NOTES)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Regardless of their field of study, 60 percent of university students evidence math anxiety, according to researchers at the University of Granada in Spain. They found that fewer men than women suffer anxiety. When it comes to dealing mathematical tasks, 47 percent of men become anxious ...
Adding basic black.(NEWS & NOTES)(Quickparts)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A custom parts manufacturer, Quickparts, has added a black stereolithography material, which it says will make low-volume layered manufacturing a more attractive option for customers. The company describes the material, RenShape 7820, as similar to ABS thermoplastic, and recommends it for ...
The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin announced that the five-satellite Milstar constellation, which provides communications for U.S. and allied forces around the world.(briefly noted)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin announced that the five-satellite Milstar constellation, which provides communications for ...
The Environmental Testing Labs at the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University said it has completed two days of radio frequency susceptibility and emissions testing on the next generation of the Auto-Guide steering receiver from AGCO Advanced Technology Solutions group in Hesston, Kan.(briefly noted)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The Environmental Testing Labs at the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University said it has completed two days of radio frequency susceptibility and emissions testing on the next generation of the Auto-Guide steering receiver ...
Wayne State University.(briefly noted)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Wayne State University's College of Engineering officially opened the Marvin I. Danto Engineering Development Center. The $28 million, 82,500-square-foot facility for traditional university research also will provide engineering ...
think3.(briefly noted)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Computer-aided design maker think3 of Milan, Italy, has recently ...
Dimensional Control Systems Inc.(briefly noted)(released 3DC5 version 6.18.0.0)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Dimensional Control Systems Inc. of Troy, Mich., which makes dimensional engineering and tolerance ...
Extracting electrodes.(COMPUTING)(Babilon GmbH is using computer-aided design software)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sometimes coupling up is the way to go. Managers at Babilon GmbH of Breuberg, Germany, which makes injection molds and die-casting tools for the automotive industry, were recently casting for ways to increase productivity. The answer ...
Nonpaper transfer.(COMPUTING)(Mailhot Industries )(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Sometimes passing a piece of paper around can slow things down. But, until recently, the 250 engineers at Mailhot Industries of Terrebonne, Quebec, which makes telescopic and industrial cylinders, submitted approval requests for their engineering designs on paper. The company ...
Robot scientist.(COMPUTING)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Scientists from two English universities have created what they call a robot scientist, which they believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that its inventors said automates the ...
Automating science.(COMPUTING)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Systems like Adam are promising--as long as scientists properly watch over them, according to two scientists also writing in the journal Science. Writing in the April 10, 2009, issue, David Waltz of the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University and Bruce ...