ASME TechCast

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ASME TechCast episodes

August 17, 2023 Seller-Doers and Mechanical Engineers
A proven way to secure billable hours, the seller-doer business development model allows firms a way to offer engineers a clear career development path.
21 min
August 03, 2023 Solving Urban Heat Islands
Virginia Tech's Theo Lim looks for solutions to urban heat islands.
24 min
July 20, 2023 Harvesting Energy Through the Window
Photovoltaic solar panels are becoming increasingly inexpensive, but there are many sunny surfaces where adding them is not feasible. Veeral Hardev, vice president for corporate strategy at Ubiquitous Energy, talks about his company’s quest to make transparent PV cells that can be applied to window glass.
32 min
July 06, 2023 Project Management and Mechanical Engineers
Being a project manager is more than getting tasks done and ensuring your team does the same. Learn the skills needed and the steps necessary to move from engineer on a project to PM of the team.

15 min
June 15, 2023 Engineering Geothermal Heat Pumps
Heat pumps, which use the outside as a source—or sink—for heat, are a familiar environmental control technology in many homes. Kathy Hannun, founder and president of Dandelion Energy, a company that makes household geothermal heat pump systems, discusses the efficiency advantages and engineering challenges of drawing heat from the ground.
25 min
June 02, 2023 Technology Readiness Levels in Undergrad Engineering
As advanced manufacturing continues to thrive, the ties among academia, industry, and government must be fostered to ensure the next generation of engineering students enter the workforce fully prepared to tackle the technologies awaiting them.

In this episode of ASME TechCast, Kathryn Jablokow, a professor at Penn State, and Tom Kurfess, a professor at Georgia Tech, discuss technology readiness levels and strategies for educators and industry in partnering to prepare engineers for the future.

Jablokow and Kurfess are both members of ASME's board of governors and members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Study Committee. Both helped author “Infusing Advanced Manufacturing into Undergraduate Engineering Education,” a report that examines advanced manufacturing techniques for the defense industry and explores how undergraduate engineering programs can better develop advanced manufacturing capabilities in the workforce.
34 min
May 18, 2023 Cybersecurity for Manufacturing
Kyle Saleeby and Gabriela Ciocarlie of the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute talk about standing up cyber protection throughout the manufacturing supply chain.
32 min
May 04, 2023 Job Suitability Assessments for Engineers
ASME sat down to talk with Reid Tolley, founding partner of Talent Matters, an assessment, analytics, and leadership development firm. In this episode he covered how the behavioral assessment, job suitability tool Harrison Assessments differs from personality testing.
Tolley explained that the tool can accurately measures how well suited a person is with a specific job and if they score a 75 percent or better, people are three times more likely to enjoy the job, excel at it, and try to excel at it.
Since 2012, Tolley has helped leaders of engineering firms and other organizations with talent acquisition and retention, company culture, succession planning, onboarding new talent, and more. Find him at Talent Matters.
19 min
April 14, 2023 Small Manufacturers Embrace Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is a suite of digitally enabled technologies that combine embedded sensors,
new kinds of materials, models as digital twins, and cutting edge computing to
change the way that companies think about their product and facilities and even
their customers. The idea of adopting these advanced manufacturing technologies
can be daunting to small companies that have had success with traditional processes.
Pavan Muzumdar, chief operating officer at Automation Alley, a nonprofit
Industry 4.0 knowledge center based in Troy, Mich., discusses how 3D printing
and other Industry 4.0 technologies are transforming small manufacturers.
40 min
March 31, 2023 ASME Techcast: What Engineering Students Need to Know to Succeed
Matt Ishler, associate director of career counseling at Penn State University, talks about what engineering
students need outside of their core classes.
26 min