Many people from mechnaics community will receive prestigious awards from ASME this year.

Ted Belytschko will receive the ASME Honorary Membership;

Wei Cai will receive the Tom Hughes Young Investigator Medal;

T.W. Chou will receive the Nadai Medal;

Richard Christensen will receive the Timoshenko Medal;

Normal Fleck will receive the Koiter Medal;

Yonggang Huang will receive the Drucker Medal;

Sia Nemat-Nasser will receive the ASME Medal;

Ting Zhu and Vicky Nguyen will receive the Sia Nemat-Nasser early career medal.

The job link is:

http://careers.slb.com/experiencedprofessionals/jobaddetail.aspx?id=1861

 Junfeng Xiao and Xi Chen, Journal of Royal Society Interface. 2013, 10(85).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0399

Faculty Positions are available in Department of Engineering Mechanics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a Symposium on "Advanced Nano/Biosystem: Design, Fabrication and Characterization" to be held in Urbana, Illinois, USA, September 25 to 27, 2013. The primary objective of the symposium is to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion on recent advances in the rapidly evolving fields of nano/biomaterial design, fabrication and characterization among physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics, and material science.

At the Division of Mechanics
of Functional Materials in the institute of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt the
following research position is to be filled as soon as possible:

 Research position (E 13 TV – TU
Darmstadt), Doctoral Candidate/Postdoc

The position is first
scheduled for three years in the case of doctoral candidate and two years in
the case of Postdoc (an extension is possible).

Tasks and Opportunities

Stephen Juhasz died on 19 June 2013 at the age of 99. The following brief description of Juhasz's career was provided by Norm Abramson.

Juhasz received his Dip. Ing. From Budapest Technical University in 1936; Teknologie Licensiate (doctorate) from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 1951; and an Honorary Doctorate of engineering from Budapest Technical University in 1989.

Description

The selected individual will lead the development, initial application and deployment of new modeling capability in the area of thermoplastic packages. The initial focus is on developing best in class material models across a range of polymers. This material modeling capability will be leveraged globally for a broad range of packaging model applications (blow molding, parison / preform optimization, empty and full bottle interaction with packing lines, etc.)