Bright lights, big city; ASME Congress to take center stage in New York City

ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition opens in New York on Nov. 11. As the birthplace of ASME, New York was long the location for the Congress until the leadership decided to move the meeting to various alternative sites. In 1980, the 101st Congress was held in Chicago and every year since then, the Congress has taken place in a different city.  Read more.

Designing invisible machines: Mechanical Engineering magazine offers insight

Mechanical engineers know that, in theory at least, they can design working mechanisms that are smaller than a spec of dust. The cover story in this month's issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine offers some insight from two researchers into where the technology for nano devices is going and can go.

Both researchers gave presentations in December at ASME's first Nanotechnology Conference. ASME is organizing more meetings on this emerging technology for later this year. Read more.

Around the globe, engineering societies find they have similar challenges

During the International Congress of Mechanical Engineering Societies, three common themes emerged from the reports given by each society: increasing the involvement of young engineers, how to make the best use of the new services available through the Internet, and the effect of globalization on industry, the engineering profession and each society individually. Read more.

ASME events attract thousands of gas turbine and power professionals

This June, join more than 4,000 professionals from approximately 60 countries at two co-located ASME blockbuster events: the 2001 ASME Turbo Expo, and the International Joint Power Generation Conference and Exposition. Read more.

The American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) is launching an advertising campaign to bring visibility to the contributions of engineers. Read more.