During Machine Design’s Motion Systems Takeover Week (Oct. 20–24, 2025), we explored how the fusion of mechanical motion and data-driven control is reshaping high-precision applications across ...

Each year, Machine Design’s Salary & Career Survey takes a pulse on what’s keeping engineers up at night. This year’s survey highlights engineers’ perceptions about the overall value of their ...

Factors influencing the proportioning of machine elements: stresses, deformations, and failure criteria as applied to shafts, springs, belts, bearings, gears. Design of Elements is a required course ...

A new hypothesis-and-theory article argues that AI has reached software design but not physical machines because the tacit, ...

Mechanical engineering has traditionally relied on physics, mathematics, and empirical knowledge to design and optimize systems. Machine learning (ML) introduces powerful tools that can complement ...