A novel method for extracting titanium could lower its cost and make it more widely accessible, for example, for producing lighter car parts to improve fuel efficiency.
Expansion of aluminum rolling mills in Korea
Novelis, Atlanta, completed a two-year, $400 million expansion program in South Korea.
Innovative deep-sea manned submarine (with video)
The University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, teamed up with OceanGate Inc., Everett, Wash., to build an innovative five-person submarine that would travel to almost 2 miles below the ocean’s surface.
Michigan Tech rolls back into Guinness Book with giant snowball
Michigan Tech’s (Houghton) ASME student chapter gathered 30 strong on the softball field and began to roll snow in hopes of getting back into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Monitoring material changes in the hostile environment of a fusion reactor
Materials are widely recognized as one of the critical remaining challenges for making fusion a commercially viable energy source.