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, ...

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 ...

Machine Design welcomes accomplished journalist Mike McLeod as its new senior editor, underscoring the publication’s commitment to authoritative, high‑impact engineering ...

Western Michigan University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences received a new Milacron Roboshot 165-ton injection molding machine on a two-year consignment agreement. This project developed ...

These new AI assistants can analyze design constraints and create custom machine learning models as well as read, import and display point cloud data augmented with AI ...

Machine learning components are enabling advances in self-driving cars, the power grid, and robotic medicine, but what are the implications for safety? Decades of research and practice in safety ...

Innovation is transformative. It’s why we ride in a Mustang instead of on a mustang. Centuries of knowledge now fit in the palm of our hand. Products move from reliable to revolutionary. Yet ideas ...

Simplified machine designs with fewer components run more efficiently and are less expensive to build. Older mechanical power transmission and actuator technologies, such as chain, rack and pinion and ...

The College Machine Shop is a precision manufacturing facility within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Our skilled craftspeople and working students will turn your blueprints into the ...