The University of Michigan-Shanghai
Jiao Tong University Joint Institute invites applications for tenure-track Assistant,
Associate, and Full Professor positions in all emerging fields related to mechanical
engineering and related disciplines. These positions are open to top caliber
applicants from around the world. In 2005, the University of Michigan and Shanghai
Jiao Tong University established the Joint Institute in Shanghai with a
commitment to build a world-class academic institution based on the US research
university model. With its unique academic mission and standing in China and collaborative
connection to UM and SJTU, the JI offers faculty extraordinary opportunities to

The institute of Geophysics of ETH Zurich is seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. candidate to be working in the domain of seismic imaging of the Earth's interior. Global seismic tomography is a relatively young discipline that rose to prominence in the 1980s and

Six finalists have been announced for the Twenty-Third Annual Robert J. Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis. The finalists and their current institutions are:

Bircan Avci, Leibniz University

Andrea Hawkins-Daarud, University of Texas at Austin

Daniel Hurtado, California Institute of Technology

Sezgin Kucukcoban, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Scott, University of Texas at Austin

We have one free position for a research scientist in our group at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.

The topics are related to dislocation modeling at either atomic or continuum scale. Please contact me if you are interested.

Rensselaer's Inverse Problems Center (IPRPI) will be hosting a workshop on Biomechanical Imaging on April 27th and 28th organized by MANE Associate Professor Assad Oberai. The registration for this workshop is free and funds for travel and local stay are available for attendees.

Even Jay Leno tried to understand fatigue cracks at his Yesterday’s Tonight Show, our research on fracture and failure mechanics is received great attention from the general public. Read more after this photo--

Dear Friends,

I am currently advertising for a new post-doc to work with me in the field of cyclic deformation and fatigue of precipitation hardenable Al alloys.  It is a 2yr position advertised at the following link.  Applications close 20th April.

http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=495459&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&lCategoryID=640%2C+636&stp=AW&sLanguage=en

Here is the paper "Symmetry-Adapted Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics of Chiral Carbon Nanotubes under Tensile Loading"

 Amin Aghaei, Kaushik Dayal

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Lecturer

Composite Materials

Cardiff University - Cardiff School of Engineering