Dear Colleagues,

The Dept. of Aerospace Engineering at IIT, Madras has vacancies in the broad areas of Structural Mechanics, Aerodynamics, and Flight Mechanics and Control.  For more details visit http://www.iitm.ac.in/faculty-opening.  Last date: March 18, 2013.

Ecole Polytechnique and McGill are seeking two PhD candidates for a large project aiming at understanding the effects of shot peening on the fatigue lives of aerospace components. The project involves 8 PhD students that will be working in close collaboration. The project is co-funded by the Canadian goverment and 5 leading aerospace companies located in Montréal. Some projects involve internships at these companies.

We are seeking two students for the following projects:

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR THE 5th ANNUAL POLYTECHNIC SUMMIT JUNE 5, 2013 - JUNE 7, 2013
Dear Colleague,

The deadline to submit an abstract to the 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics , to be held in Raleigh this summer, has been extended to February 28, 2013.  Those interested in participating in the Congress should submit their abstracts as soon as possible as we do not plan to extend the deadline again.  Students and postdoctoral fellows should note that there are travel awards  available for the Congress.

I look forward to seeing many of you in Raleigh this summer!

John Dolbow

Congress Co-Chair 

Applications are invited for the position of
Post‐doctoral Research
Fellow as part of a joint research project between Masdar Institute of Science
& Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Details of the position are given in the attachement.

Multiscale Modeling & Simulation Group at the Masdar Institute (MI) is seeking suitably qualified candidates for PhD positions (Fall 2013). Refer to attached documents for futher information.

Multiscale Modeling & Simulation Group at the Masdar Institute (MI) is seeking suitably
qualified candidates for MS positions (Fall 2013). Refer to attached documents for futher information.

Dear Colleagues:

The 19th International Conference on Wear of Materials, (Portland, Oregon, USA , 14-18 April 2013) offers Poster Presenters the option to take part in the new (free) app: Poster in my Pocket.

For more information abouth this new app, and the conference, go to http://www.wearofmaterialsconference.com

Presented by Prof. James Rice Mallinckrodt and sponsored by Elsevier and the NJIT Granular Science Laboratory

Prof. James Rice Mallinckrodt, Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics
Harvard University
April 2, 2013
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Guttenberg Information Technology Center 1100
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

For more information, visit http://www.journals.elsevier.com/mechanics-research-communications/latest-news/distinguished-lecture/

Third Wave Systems, a leading provider of CAE analysis software and services for machining manufacturing, is seeking enthusiastic additions to our computational mechanics software development team.  This position holds the primary responsibility of developing and implementing numerical methods, finite element formulations, adaptive and initial mesh generation, three-dimensional geometry engines, mechanistic machining models, constitutive models for the simulation and optimization of metal, composite, and ceramic cutting processes.  The Computational Mechanics Engineer (CME) will collaborate with Applications Development, Applications Engineering and Product Quality teams to translate customer requests and problems to interna

A postdoctoral scholar position is currently available in the Nanoscale Mechanics and Materials Laboratory (NNML) at the University of California, Irvine.  We are seeking an individual with a strong background in atomistic simulation of materials.  The research project will focus on understanding structural evolution and failure processes in nanocrystalline materials, as well as damage and crack initiation at grain boundaries. A Ph.D. in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field is required.  Experience with parallel molecular dynamics codes (e.g., LAMMPS) is preferred, but capable and enthusiastic applicants with other computational backgrounds will also be considered.

2013 SIMULIA Community Conference

Vienna, Austria

Connect with international users at this collaborative community event.

Highlights include keynotes from BMW Group and Ethicon Surgical Care,
Inc. (a J&J company) and over 90 use-case presentations on Abaqus,
Isight, and Simulation Lifecycle Management.

Listen to what past attendees have to say.

http://bit.ly/YHl10u

For more information on the event visit: http://www.3ds.com/SCC2013

Dear Colleague:

The 2013 summer meeting of ASME Applied Mechanics Division will be held jointly with the Society of Engineering Science at Brown University, Providence, RI, July 28-31. We are pleased to invite you to a session on Dynamic Stability of Structural Systems, under the symposium on Instability in Solids and Structures that is being organized by the AMD Technical Committee.

Participation requires just the submission of an abstract by April 1, 2013 (see details at http://www.brown.edu/Conference/ses2013/ .)

The stability symposium is listed under Mechanics of Solids and Structures.

http://www.brown.edu/Conference/ses2013/Symposia/Solids/Instability.htm�...

The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing several topics related to Multifunctional Material Systems at IMECE2013 to be held in San Diego, CA, during Nov. 15-21, 2013 .

Abstract submission deadline: February 14, 2013

We are continually seeking high quality graduate students for consideration for admission to the interdisciplinary graduate program in Engineering Science within the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  If qualified, students will be considered for financial support in the form of Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships, and/or Fellowships.  Please refer to the webpage for more information about the application process and which semester to be considered for admission

http://ceae.colorado.edu/prospective-students/graduate-studies/

M. Nosonovsky & V. Mortazavi. Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization: Mechanics and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Sliding Contact (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013, forthcoming)

Friction is usually thought as a process that leads to irreversible dissipation of energy and wear is thought of as irreversible deterioration. Many scientists and engineers do not realize that under certain conditions friction can lead to the formation of new structures at the interface, including in-situ tribofilms, and various patterns at the interface. Friction-induced self-organization was studied mostly by scholars in Eastern Europe in the 1970-1990s although the field remains exotic to many tribologists in other countries.

Here is the report from NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC, about Profs. John Rogers and Yonggang Huang's work on epidermal electronics.

http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/cuecard/62961

(You can press control+click to open it, or copy the above weblink to a browser) 

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention the symposium:

"CHARACTERIZATION AND IMAGING OF STRUCTURAL AND MATERIAL IMPERFECTIONS"

that we are organizing at the SES 50th Annual Technical Meeting/ASME-AMD Summer Meeting to be held at Brown University in Providence, RI during July 28-31, 2013.

These notes may serve as a reminder of tensor algebra.  The notes supplement the course on advanced elasticity.  Several books are listed at the end of the notes.

Dear Colleagues, on behalf of the organizing committee, I cordially invite your participation in Track 11, Topic 10: Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability, as part of the 2013 ASME IMECE conference to be held in San Diego, CA during November 15-21, 2013.

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The Blast Impact and Survivability Research Unit (BISRU) of the
University of Cape Town has been given the privilege to host the 4th
International Conference on Impact Loading of Lightweight Structures.