Talk:American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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im a freshman in high school and i am doing a project for my introduction to engineering design and i need to know the basics of how the asme came to be.

Check out (which I should try to merge into the material here). -- Kaszeta 17:17, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

See WP:HD where a recent anon editor commetned on this article. DES (talk) 20:29, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Would there be any interest in the ASME Performance Test Codes?

Requested move

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NO CONSENSUS to move page, per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 02:57, 24 January 2007 (UTC) American Society of Mechanical Engineers→ ASME – ASME never refers to itself as "American Society of Mechanical Engineers", and on its own "about ASME" it says "Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is". I feel like this article should be called "ASME" rather than the seemingly defunct "American Society of Mechanical Engineers". The new article name of ASME would thus conform better to WP:NCA (like NASA, laser, radar, etc.). --Matthew 22:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

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Survey - Support votes

 * 1) support - I nominated it, clearly I support it. --Matthew 22:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Survey - Oppose votes

 * Oppose - not "widely known" like that, and there are other uses. -- Beardo 06:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose I agree with Beardo, unlike the examples the nom mentions (Nasa, radar, etc), the acronym ASME is not widely known and recognize so the official name should be kept. 205.157.110.11 00:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose on grounds of obscurity per 205.157.110.11 Sumahoy 22:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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Member Comments
(Member, out of habit, since 1983) In terms of strengths and weaknesses, ASME has historically done a fairly good job at maintaining standards publications, however when it comes to members, the society has consistently failed to lobby for American mechanical engineers (in terms of limiting foreign immigration and stopping American manufacturing losses markets overseas with horrendous labor and environmental violations), and they provide little of value for the working engineering member on their site. What is most telling, it the fact that there is no open forum on their site for members views. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 164.107.37.109 (talk • contribs) 12:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I've moved this comment from the article to the talk page and will respond when I have time. --Athol Mullen 23:20, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Bit of a WIKI novice here, but I think this is where this should go. In March of this year I worked on a wiki site that discussed NQA-1. It needed some updating and being a member of that standards committee, I wanted the information to be presented accurately and more completely. That site has been deleted. I cannot find it on the delete list. Perhaps someone can tell me what might have happened - was it a copyright violation? If so, would it be appropriate to contribute about this standard on this page. If I'm in the wrong place for asking the question, my apologies and please send me to the right place. Thanks, BTW, the page was not mine. Norm Moreau —Preceding undated comment added 22:51, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Journal jungle
Doing research into writings produced over several decades, it appears that ASME has published almost as many journals as IEEE. While the standards listed do contribute to the public good, inclusion in the ASME article of a description of its journal output would also so contribute.Rgdboer (talk) 21:57, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * List of American Society of Mechanical Engineers academic journals. fgnievinski (talk) 04:38, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Reccomendations for Improvement
Can someone please provide a link to the ASME website, and a listing of all the ASME standards that are available. ProfKevinT (talk) 21:39, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Link provided, but a listing of all the standards is not practical or useful here as there are over 600+. Bernoullies (talk) 13:52, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Did they really change their name?
A while ago this page was moved from "American Society of Mechanical Engineers" to "ASME" with the explanation that "ASME itself no longer defines its own name as an acronym, but rather as the full name. See ASME.org." However, in most of their press releases, they do seem to treat "ASME" as an acronym, and they spell out the full 5-word phrase the first time it is mentioned. I'm wondering if this page should be moved back. --Brian the Editor (talk) 19:31, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Historical Documents
Historical versions of all ASME publications are currently housed at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri. 66.51.108.35 (talk) 19:03, 6 May 2024 (UTC)