With a generous gift from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the ASME Applied Mechanics Division will award grants to students presenting their own work at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2009). The grant will reimburse travel expenses and registration fees, up to $1,000 per student, for up to 10 students.
Leonhard Euler has 5 students and 56,850 academic descendents. They are all listed by the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Euler himself was a student of Johann Bernoulli, and produced a student named Joseph Louis Lagrange, who in turn produced Fourier and Poisson. No wonder Euler has so many descendents by now.
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The Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, seeks nominations for the awards listed below. All the awards are international. Neither the nominee nor the nominator need be a member of the ASME. Further descriptions of the awards are given at http://divisions.asme.org/amd/Honors_Awards.cfm.
In the field of Solid Mechanics, Harvard has a sequence of 5 graduate courses:
The first course goes over linear elasticity, finite element method, vibration, waves, viscoelasticity, as well as some ideas of finite deformation.
I have updated sections of my notes on thermodynamics. A few thoughts on learning are collected here. Of our world the following facts are known:
The notes on finite deformation have been divided into two parts: special cases and general theory (node/538). In class I start with special cases, and then sketch the general theory. But the two parts can be read in any order.
For a system in thermal contact with the rest of the world, we have described three quantities: entropy, energy, and temperature. We have also described the idea of a constraint internal to the system, and associated this constraint to an internal variable.
I taught this course at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Winter 1994, Winter 1995, Spring 1996; at Princeton, Spring 2003; at Harvard, Spring 2004. The notes posted here are those distributed to the class in Spring 2004.
