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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Omar Yaghi, who collected a Nobel Prize in Chemistry this morning. @kaytsukel.bsky.social wrote about his work using metal-organic frameworks back in 2023.

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Hand-held Device Takes Water from the Air Using MOFs - ASME

A new hand-held device can harvest water from the air even in desert conditions.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · 4d

Not true, Jeff. All the cool people know about Mechanical Engineering.

Congratulations to our fearless boss, Louise Poirier, for taking home the Eddie for “Range of Work by a Single Author.” Everything she writes is great, and she writes about everything!

Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 4d

Incredibly proud of my old crew at @asmedotorg.bsky.social @mengineeringmag.bsky.social for nabbing two Eddies last night. Best little magazine no one’s ever heard of. Onward and upward.

Sarah Alburakeh and Louise Poirier with the trophies for best single issue and best body of work.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 4d

Incredibly proud of my old crew at @asmedotorg.bsky.social @mengineeringmag.bsky.social for nabbing two Eddies last night. Best little magazine no one’s ever heard of. Onward and upward.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Aug 13

Outgoing editor-in-chief Jeffrey Winters reminisces on some of his favorite stories from over the past 23 years.

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Blog: Looking Forward from the Past - ASME

Writing about cutting-edge technology for decades means that you get to see early drafts of the future. But not every vision of tomorrow comes to pass.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Jun 4

Tim Latimer of Fervo Energy, who's developing the deep frontier of enhanced geothermal energy, is one of Mechanical Engineering magazine's 25 members of Watch List 2025.

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Tim Latimer - ME Watch List 2025

Tim Latimer, CEO at Fervo Energy is leading something transformative: the future of geothermal energy. He is a Mechanical Engineering Alumni of University of Tulsa.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

Again this year we are throwing a spotlight on 25 early career engineers who are redefining what it means to lead, innovate, and represent engineering.

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Cover - ME Watch List 2025

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · May 23

Everyone loves tooting their own horn, and we spoke with Eva Erickson, mechanical engineering doctoral student who finished second in this spring's Survivor.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Apr 3

Oh, here’s the link:

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Apr 2

As always, Mechanical Engineering is a member benefit for ASME members, so the content is gated.

Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our April 2025 issue posted, and it's chock full of great stories on the frontiers of engineering.

Where next for robotic surgery?
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Recycling old wind and solar components
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And more!
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Illustration of wind turbines turning, with a globe, power lines, and other energy-related motifs.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Mar 21

Mush for brains? A research team at Cornell has made robots that use mushrooms as part of their control systems.

ASME members can read all about it in the March issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Mar 21

Lots of thanks to Sam Grate of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum for providing all sorts of information on the Duesenberg company.

Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Mar 21

Those brakes, and the Duesenberg story, were written up by editor in chief @jeffreywinters.bsky.social

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Duesenberg Hydraulic Brakes Got America Moving - ASME

Before Duesenberg made its hydraulic braking system standard, operating a car could be a physical challenge. This ASME Engineering Landmark opened the roads to everyone.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Mar 21

Duesenbergs were the hypercars of the 1920s -- automobiles built by racecar engineers and packed with cutting edge technology. One innovation -- four-wheel hydraulic brakes -- are now an ASME Engineering Landmark.

1921 Duesenberg Model A, otherwise known as the Straight Eight, courtesy the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Feb 4

“Twenty percent of their lives were spent going through a global pandemic,” said Mike Hadden of Skansa USA. “A lot of them are breaking out of their shell, wanting so desperately to be heard because they weren’t for so long.”

Engineering's generation gap.

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Gif of the cartoon people of various ages bouncing up and down. It's the lead image on our article, which can be read at: https://magazine.asme.org/issues/february-2025/engineerings-generational-gap

Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Feb 2

Hey, @asmedotorg.bsky.social members! The February issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine is ready for you.

* Managing the Generation Gap

* How E-Bikes Got to Be the Next Big Thing

… and more.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hello, BlueSky friends. We are looking for nominations to our 2025 Watch List -- our annual spotlight on early-career engineers who are doing amazing work. If you know someone _we_ should know about, let us know via the form! (2024 Watch List in the following post.)

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Purdue Mechanical Engineering @purdueme.bsky.social · Jan 16

Purdue has added 6 new programs in Indianapolis for Fall 2025, including a Professional Master's in Sports Engineering: www.purdue.edu/newsroom/pur...

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hello, BlueSky friends. We are looking for nominations to our 2025 Watch List -- our annual spotlight on early-career engineers who are doing amazing work. If you know someone _we_ should know about, let us know via the form! (2024 Watch List in the following post.)

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jun 9

It’s easily more than $3. Here’s our chart from a while ago and our more recent paper. For climate alone, every $100/tonne GHG adds $1/gal. Whether driving costs us all an extra $3 per gal or $6/gal, it’s not zero, which is what we pay now. www.rand.org/content/dam/... & pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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An Estimate of the Per-Mile Externalities Associated with Driving an Automobile
Oil imports (0.8¢)
Air pollution
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Accidents (2.4¢)
Climate change (2.3¢)
Congestion (5.6¢)
Noise (0.1¢)
NOTE: Estimates are in 2010$ and based on NHTSA (2012a) values. GHG emissions use the central value from the U.S. Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (2013). Emissions factors are well-to-wheel for a 24.8-mpg vehicle using data from Argonne National Laboratory (2012).
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2.6-36.1 cents per passenger-km traveled, on average (12) (in 2019 USD). We make a contribution to the literature by conducting a systematic estimation of the external costs of shifting to TNC travel.

For traffic externalities, including congestion, crashes, and noise, we conducted an extensive literature review (described in detail in the Supporting Information) and identified the most relevant estimates and ranges of marginal externalities for our U.S. urban TNC scope: 4.1-7.1
§ per km for congestion, (6,50-52) 0.8-6.6 ¢ per km for crashes (6,12,53,54); and 0-1.9 ¢ per km for noise. (55) From the literature on the social cost of carbon, we adopt a range of $15 to $149 per metric ton of COz equivalent. We use these ranges to specify distributions for the Monte Carlo analysis.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Jan 2

New issue (members only) of Mechanical Engineering just dropped, featuring a cover story on NASA's Artemis program by the always-excellent Louise Poirier.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Dec 13

We've been digging into deep geothermal for a few years now, including the cover story for our December issue, which looked at some of the companies leading the charge into this energy frontier.

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Deep Geothermal is the New Energy Frontier - ASME

A new generation of startups is developing the drilling technology needed to reach rocks hot enough to provide clean, sustainable power whenever we need it.

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Mechanical Engineering Magazine @mengineeringmag.bsky.social · Dec 13

"The report finds that costs could fall by 80% by 2035 to around $50 per megawatt hour (MWh). This would make geothermal the cheapest source of dispatchable low-emissions electricity on a par with existing hydropower and nuclear installations."

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Technology breakthroughs are unlocking geothermal energy’s vast potential in countries across the globe - News - IEA

Technology breakthroughs are unlocking geothermal energy’s vast potential in countries across the globe - News from the International Energy Agency

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Nov 21

Have we been duped by the primary energy fallacy?

Critics of renewables often say that we cannot possibly replace the vast amount of fossil fuel we currently use with clean energy.

The good news is that we don’t have to. My article in Medium explains why.

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Have we been duped by the primary energy fallacy?

Whenever I post something on renewable energy on social media it never takes long for negative comments to arrive in my feed. One type of…

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