The gears in the Issus hind-leg bear remarkable engineering resemblance to those found on every bicycle and inside every car gear-box.

Gears, especially in open gearing applications, share a set of well-known performance problems that crop up again and again across many different applications. The most common ones include ...

Author and professor Steve Radzevich discusses the third revision to Dudley’s Handbook of Practical Gear Design and Manufacture, and the essentials gear designers should know.

Gears and wheels are not very common in nature. Recently however, biologist have discovered a precision gearing mechanism that is built and used by an insect known as a planthopper. The bug ...

Mechanical engineers design, develop and test a wide array of mechanical and thermal devices across multiple industries. Common types of mechanical engineering roles include aerospace engineers ...