PhD positions in the areas of soft robots, printed electronics, and bioinspired materials are available now in the Laboratory of Soft Machines & Electronics at the School of Packaging and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University.

The Michigan State University (MSU) School of Packaging invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in the area of Packaging Innovation, Design and Additive Manufacturing. The appoint will be at the assistant professor level with a combined research/teaching/service responsibility. Review of applications will begin on February 1, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled.

Professor Charles Wojnar from Missouri University of Science and Technology has been selected to receive the 2018 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper "Linking Internal Dissipation Mechanisms to the Effective Complex Viscoelastic Moduli of Ferroelectrics", Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 84, #021006, 2017.

Join us at the University of Washington, Seattle, on Wednesday January 24th (1.30pm-4.30pm) for a free workshop on obtaining high-fidelity models from 3D image data.

Agenda

1:30 - 1:40 PM Registration & Refreshments

1:40 - 2:40 PM Introduction to Image-based Model Generation with Simpleware

Dear Colleagues,

Please see attached a recent article published in Scientific Reports on the fundamental nature of dislocation motion in crystals. Leave your comments or whatever you think of it.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18254-5

Best,

Yizhe

Ph.D. position in the area of Design of Medical Devices and Mechanics is now available in the Composites Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Qualified applicants should contact Dr. Parsaoran Hutapea by email at hutapea [at] temple.edu.