The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Yihui Zhang, Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, as the recipient of the 2019 Thomas J. R.

Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Extreme Mechanics Letters Young Investigator Award, Professor Lihua Jin of University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and Professor Xiaoyan Li of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Applications are invited for a University Lectureship (equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the US system) in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology. The successful candidate will join the Mechanics, Materials and Design Division to add to its expertise in Bioengineering. Applicants should have earned a Ph.D. in Engineering or a related discipline and ideally with post-doctoral experience.

I wanted to bring to attention open Purdue Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions.

https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Research/GilbrethFellowships

In particular I am soliciting calls from good candidates in the following area: (please feel free to contact me for a possibility. prior communication is encouraged.)

Vacancies exist for high calibre one master or one PhD student to join the Innovative Design and Engineering Analysis Laboratory at York University, starting immediately.
The position’s primary area of research will focus on shape and topology optimization 

Requirement:
- Strong background in numerical simulations, finite element analysis, computational solid mechanics
- Excellent programming skills and experience with high performance computing
- Proficiency in English, good written and verbal communication skills

Professor Ahmed Elbanna from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected to receive the 2019 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper "On the role of the plaque porous structure in mussel adhesion: implications for adhesion control using bulk patterning", Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 85, #121003, 2018.  The paper is attached.

I would like to share our recent work published in Physical Review Letters.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.205502

Shuze Zhu and Harley T. Johnson

Nanoscale, in press, 2018, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/nr/c8nr06269b

Shuze Zhu, Nikolaos Lempesis, Pieter J. in ‘t Veld, and Gregory C. Rutledge

Macromolecules, in press, 2018, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01922