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Journal Club Theme of April 2014: Challenges and Opportunities in 3D Printing: A Mini Introduction

3D printing, or Additive Manufacturing (AM), has drawn significant attention from both general public and research community in recent years.  Although the first prototype of 3D printing (called rapid prototyping) emerged about three decades ago and has gone through significant development, the recent explosion in its popularity appears to be mainly due to intensive media reports.

A Postdoc Position Available

A postdoc position is available in Dr. Qi’s group in the
Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Colorado Boulder starting
from April, 2013. The project will involve mechanics and design of polymer
composites. Candidates should have strong background in solid mechanics,
physics and constitutive modeling of polymers, and computational mechanics. Interested
candidates should send his/her CV together with a list of 2-3 references to
qih@colorado.edu.

Faculty Positions in the Area of Material Science and Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder

The interdisciplinary Materials
Science and Engineering program at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks to
hire four exceptional candidates as tenure-track assistant
professors; exceptionally well-qualified candidates with outstanding
credentials may be considered for appointment at a higher academic level. 
The MSE program offers tenure-track appointments in science and engineering
departments across the campus.  Candidates in all materials research areas
will be considered. Successful candidates must have a strong commitment to

Faculty Position in the Area of Manufacturing and Design in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Colorado Boulder

The Department of Mechanical Engineering
at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a full-time
tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in design and
manufacturing; exceptionally well-qualified candidates with outstanding
credentials may be considered for appointment at a higher academic level.
Candidates are expected to complement and strengthen existing departmental
research in the areas of micro-/nano-systems engineering, energy and
environmental engineering, materials, or biomechanical/biomaterials

IMECE 2010 Student Travel Awards and Best Papers Contest

The AMD executive committee (EC) just announced the student travel awards and best paper contest for IMECE 2010. Between 10 and 15 students will be selected for travel grants of $750 each. The students who receive travel awards will also become eligible to participate in the best paper contest. This is a great opportunity for young students to present their work and meet other researchers during IMECE 2010.

Call for papers: Symposium on Mechanics of Soft Materials in ASME IMECE 2010

Dear friends and colleagues,

We invite you to submit an abstract to Symposium on Mechanics of Soft Materials. This symposium is part of 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 12-18, 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This symposium is sponsored by the newly formed Mechanics of Soft Materials technical committee in Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.

Light Activated Polymers

Soft active materials have received increasing interests recently. Here, soft materials can broadly refer to polymers, elastomers, hydrogel gels. Active materials mean that these materials can respond to external stimuli. Examples of soft active materials include shape memory polymers, environmentally responsive hydrogels, liquid crystal elastomers, etc.

Journal Club Theme of July 2007: Mechanics of Hydrogels

Before we start this issue of J-club, I would like to recommend Prof. Langer's lecture for his MRS Von Hippel Award in the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting (Langer, 2006). His lecture not only delineated the history of the new exciting field of drug delivery and controlled release, but also told us many interesting stories happened in his career development. With Prof. Langer's pioneer work, many new materials are developed for designing new drug delivery and controlled drug release systems.

6th International Conference on Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, 2008 Monterey, intent to attend Due by 03/20/07.

http://www.ae.utexas.edu/MTDM08/  Abstracts are due March 20.  The following plenary technical speakers have confirmed their engagements: Prof Masao Doi (University of Tokyo), Prof Roderic Lakes (University of Wisconsin), Prof Siavouche Nemat-Nasser (University of California, San Diego), Prof Kumbakonam Rajagopal (Texas A&M University); In addition, we will feature government speakers addressing research opportunities and overall research environment, inclduing: Dr Janez Potocnik, European Union Commissioner of Science and Research, and Dr Thomas P Russell, Director, Aerospace, Chemical and Material Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

6th International Conference on Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials 2008, Monterey, CA, short/tentative abstracts due March 20

We invite you to submit an abstract for the 6th international conference on Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, to be held at the Portola Plaza Hotel, Monterey CA, March 30 - April 1, 2008. The conference is held in coordination with the journal of the same name. (Profs. Igor Emri and Wolfgang Knauss, editors-in-chief.)  The hotel overlooks beautiful Monterey Bay. The program will feature: several distinguished plenary speakers addressing a selection of the described topics; a day highlighting US and international governmental support with keynote by Dr.

6th International Conference on Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials 2008, Monterey, CA, short/tentative abstracts due March 20

We invite you to submit an abstract for the 6th international conference on Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, to be held at the Portola Plaza Hotel, Monterey CA, March 30 - April 1, 2008. The conference is held in coordination with the journal of the same name. (Profs. Igor Emri and Wolfgang Knauss, editors-in-chief.)  The hotel overlooks beautiful Monterey Bay. The program will feature: several distinguished plenary speakers addressing a selection of the described topics; a day highlighting US and international governmental support with keynote by Dr. Janez Potocnik, Commissioner for Science and Research for the European Union; an extensive sightseeing excursion in the beautiful Monterey peninsula region.

We are soliciting papers involving constitutive, time (rate)-dependent behavior of all materials. The time-dependent mechanical response should be non-negligible in cases involving non-mechanical fields. Papers dealing with modeling and experimental aspects of the subject area are sought. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: characterization and modeling of behavior at multiple scales; viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity; transport, chemically and electronically active processes; multiphase and biomaterial systems; thermodynamics; shape memory; mechanics of testing; micro/nanoindentation on time-dependent materials; dynamic rate-dependent behaviors; large deformations; residual stresses; time (rate)-dependent damage and failure; time (rate)-dependent polycrystalline, single crystal and nanocrystalline behaviors; multifunctional materials; mechanics of processing; design methods; environmental interactions; experimental methods and techniques; linear and non-linear time-dependent behavior; time (rate)-dependent composite materials of all types; numerical analysis; physical aging; rheological properties; temperature, pressure, and moisture effects on time dependence; damping; related topics. A short/tentative abstract indicating your intent to attend must be submitted by March 20, 2007, to the conference website: http://www.ae.utexas.edu/MTDM08/  

Symposium on Characterization and Modeling of Time-Dependent Materials and Processes at the 2007 ASME M&M Conference

The Symposium on Characterization and Modeling of Time-Dependent Materials and Processes at the 2007 ASME Mechanics and Materials conference will be held June 3-7, 2007, at the University of Texas at Austin. Additional information about the conference can be found at the conference website.

Papers dealing with modeling and experimental aspects of the subject area, involving all materials, are sought. The mechanical response should be non-negligable in cases involving non-mechanical fields. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: characterization and modeling of behavior at multiple scales; viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity; transport, chemically and electronically active processes; multiphase and biomaterial systems; thermodynamics; shape memory; mechanics of testing; micro/nanoindentation on time-dependent materials; dynamic behavior of polymers and composites; large deformations; residual stresses; time-dependent damage and failure; polycrystalline and single crystal behaviors; multifunctional materials; mechanics of processing.

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