May 1997
from the editor
Engineers Make News

letters
Defining MEMS
Automating Lens Manufacturing
CFD for Pumps

news and notes
Nuclear Blast in a Can
Air Stream Blocks Jet-engine Noise
All-weather Turbine Enclosure Sets Sail
Instrumented Wall Monitors Car Crashes
Honda will Introduce it's Electric Car
Extra-large Rapid Prototyping
Cruise Missile gets Upgrade
Machine Dumps Sand for Traction
Briefly Noted

computing
Off-the-shelf Supercomputer
Portable Workstation
Navigating a Virtual World
New I-DEAS for Midrange Market
More Powerful Postprocessor
PC/Workstation Hybrid
Nueral Network Detects Tumors

input/output
Excercise Equiptment Puts on Magnetorheological Brakes

m.e. bookshelf
Eleven New Reviews of the Latest Engineering Books

call for papers
Entries for May

washington window
Clinton and Congress Jockey over Transportation Bill

1995-96 ASME fellows
Adams-Cohen
Cook-Henien
Herakovich-Osman
Paul-Soedel
Sonntag-Zinn

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