The Premier Issue of DEMAND is with the November Mechanical Engineering Magazine

The Premier Issue of DEMAND is with the November Mechanical Engineering Magazine The Premier Issue of DEMAND is with the November Mechanical Engineering Magazine The Premier Issue of DEMAND is with the November Mechanical Engineering MagazineThe student team from the University of San Diego and their inspection vehicle prototype took top honors at the District D regional ASME Student Design Competition last April. The team will be one of the 23 teams of ASME student members competing in the final round of the competition next month at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. A new Society publication, DEMAND ASME Global Development Review, is being delivered with the November issue of Mechanical Engineering. The new publication, a hybrid between a magazine and a journal, provides a platform for engineers and other technically trained people in the global development space to share their insights with the greater engineering community through in-d epth case studies and articles that explore the technical, programmatic and community challenges related to their field.DEMAND was created and published by ASME in collaboration with Mechanical Engineering magazine with reports from Engineering for Change (E4C) and support from the ASME Foundation.The content of DEMAND covers a variety of subjects, ranging from project evaluation via instrumented monitoring to methods for eliminating indoor air pollution to the challenges around funding social innovation projects. These topics are approached from the perspective of the engineer and global development practitioner, presenting stakeholder-driven innovation as a model for solving the most pressing challenges of disadvantaged communities.When working with communities, its bedrngnis engineering as usual, said Noha El-Ghobashy, ASMEs director of Engineering for Global Development, explaining the motivation behind the new publication. The complexity of these challenges and the impact on pe oples lives necessitates that we consider the broader social, economic and political contexts. Our aim is to profile innovative solutions while challenging the existing and upcoming corps of engineers and practitioners to re-invent approaches, methods and assumptions that often stand in the way of effective and sustainable solutions.The editor-in-chief of Mechanical Engineering magazine, John Falcioni, believes the value of the new magazine is in its approach. This is a unique publication, he said. We are shooting for the best of both worlds DEMAND has a peer review component, as well as a general-interest editors touch. We hope that the content is inviting to readers who are involved in the developing world space and also to those who are not but are interested in the topic. Besides the content, the graphic elements of DEMAND make it very smart, very contemporary.In addition to the print edition, DEMAND will also be available in November as a downloadable app from both the iOS and Android stores. The app includes interactive information, enhanced graphics and videos. You can also visit the publications web page on ASME.org at http//go.asme.org/DEMAND and join the conversation on the topics you read about in the issue.