Professor Yonggang Huang of Northwestern University will receive the 2019 Theodore von Karman Medal from ASCE. The Theodore von Karman Medal recognizes distinguished achievement in engineering mechanics, applicable to any branch of civil engineering.
More information about the medal and the past winners can be found via the following link:
https://www.asce.org/templates/award-detail.aspx?id=1602&all_recipients…
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 31, 2019
Next Generation Paradigms for Additive Manufacturing and Metallic Printing
A book edited by Prof. H. A. Abdel-Aal (Drexel University)
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4042
Introduction
Dear imechanicians
I hope that this paper is of interest to you. The phase field fracture code developed in FEniCS is available at www.empaneda.com/codes
Phase field modelling of crack propagation in functionally graded materials
Hirshikesh, S. Natarajana, R.K. Annabattula, E. Martínez-Pañeda
Composites Part B: Engineering 169, pp 239-248 (2019)
There is an opening for a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University in Waco, TX, USA for Fall 2019 or Spring 2020 (negotiable). The position comes with 3 years of research assistantship with support that includes monthly stipend and tuition remission. The general area of interest is in composite materials including both polymeric and ceramic matrix composites. Scope of work includes composite manufacture, testing (environmental/high temperature), characterization and computational modeling.
I am pleased to share some good news pertaining to one of our mechanicians...Professor Huajian Gao was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: https://www.amacad.org/newly-elected-members.
Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Track Position Recruitment
Overview
A three-year PHD graduate research assistant position is available immediately in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas-Denton in the fields of electromagnetic wave energy harvesting and sensing, Candidates should have a Bachelor/Master’s degree in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering with good academic standing and should have one or more experiences in the following:
(1) Electromagnetic wave theory and applications
(2) Design and experiment of electromagnetic wave energy harvester and sensors
The Masters of Science in Biomedical engineering (MSBE) is a research oriented degree program that is administered by the Department of Engineering in the College of Engineering and Technology. ECU MSBE is a two-year program with a minimum of 32 semester hours of coursework and thesis.
Submit your abstract for the 2019 Society of Engineering Science meeting on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), October 13-15, 2019, deadline April 30, 2019 Information about tracks and symposia: https://ses2019.wustl.edu/track-symposia/
Submit your abstract: https://ses2019.wustl.edu/track-symposia/abstracts/
Dear all,
I bring your attention to the following workshop that will be held in Rome on November 18-20, 2019.
Attendance of the workshop is free. All the relevant information are available in the attached flyer.
Workshop RAM3, Recent Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials — 2nd International Meeting of Young Researchers
