Can you design a mechanism that will trace out the shape of a heart? How about the shape of a moon, or a star? Mechanism ...

A digital thread approach to engineering encourages collaboration among engineering disciplines and leads to a simulation-driven digital twin. By adopting a digital thread approach to engineering, ...

As fate would have it, the inaugural issue of MACHINE DESIGN coincided almost exactly with the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. Although the nation was in the economic ...

Machine Design is the comprehensive technical resource for mechanical engineers providing the technical essentials of advanced design and manufacturing. Our content team, engineers who have worked in ...

Students competed in the Wisconsin Regional Engineering Machine Design Contest. The theme was "advancing technology by transforming water technology." Students from New Berlin Eisenhower High School ...

It’s a contest that asks students to come up with a machine that shows how different types of energy work — such as electrical, chemical or kinetic, among others — and relate their project back to a ...