The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University has two on-going faculty searches. 

In one search, we seek candidates to teach interdisciplinary classes related to mechanical engineering design, product design, and the design processes itself, with applications across all mechanical engineering disciplines including robotics, mechatronics, mechanical systems, thermal systems and energy systems.

In the second search, we seek candidates for an Open Topic and Open Rank search.

In this project, you will develop and apply numerical methods to gain insights into the mechanics of triboelectric nanogenerators and metamaterials. For both systems, the mechanical response is essential for the system’s function. In triboelectric generators, rough or patterned surfaces make contact and the mechanics of the interface determines contact area and stiffness and hence the charging efficiency. For metamaterials, the structural design of the individual unit cell determines the constitutive macroscopic response that can be designed in silico.

Soft wall-climbing robots

Guoying Gu, Jiang Zou, Ruike Zhao, Xuanhe Zhao and Xiangyang Zhu

Science Robotics, 2018, Vol. 3, Issue 25, eaat2874

Electromaterials Laboratory@SYSU, is an integrated environment for high-performance conductive materials (with the strong desire to combine fundamental materials science and application-directed research in a single working environment),  located at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, China and forms part of the Materials Science and Engineering department. Our general research activities include
•    understanding and designing conductive materials in the form of films, fibers, and aerogels with unprecedented properties and performance

A fully PhD studentship in Computational Biomechanics is available at the Zienkiewicz Center for Computational Engineering (ZC2E), Swansea University, United Kingdom.

Project title: Multiscale meshfree modelling of the biorheological behaviour of healthy and diseased red blood cells

Closing date: 31 January 2019.

Proposed start date: April 2019.

Project supervisors: Dr Adesola S Ademiloye and Professor Perumal Nithiarasu

A postdoc position is available immediately at Department of Chemical Eingeering in Universisty of Alabama. The project is focused on the numerical simulation of electrochemical growth of metals in confirmed geometry. Competitive salary and benefits are offered. This job offers a good opportunity to collaborate with fortune 500 companies. 

The ignition of energetic materials (EM) under dynamic loading is mainly controlled by localized temperature spikes known as hotspots. Hotspots occur due to several dissipation mechanisms, including viscoplasticity, viscoelasticity, and internal friction along crack surfaces. To analyze the contributions of these mechanisms, we quantify the ignition probability, energy dissipation, damage evolution, and hotspot characteristics of polymer-bonded explosives (PBXs) with various levels of constituent plasticity of the energetic phase and internal crack face friction.

Zhiqiang Shen, Huilin Ye, Xin Yi, and Ying Li

5th Global Summit & Expo on

Materials, Photonics & Optical Instruments

Abstract Submission:

https://www.scientificfederation.com/gsempoi-2019/abstract-submission.php

We b : https://www.scientificfederation.com/gsempoi-2019/