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enHibbitt Engineering Fellows, School of Engineering, Brown University
https://imechanica.org/node/17692
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>New prestigious postdoctoral<span> fellowships are provided by a generous gift from Susan and David Hibbitt.</span> Since the fellows will be selected through internal competition with those of other disciplines, solid mechanics applicants should be well qualified for the competition. <span>The Hibbitt Engineering Fellows will receive an annual salary plus benefits and an additional research and travel stipend. Anticipated start date for these full-time positions is in July 2015. Initial appointment is for one year, with expected renewal for second year given satisfactory progress. </span></p>
<p><span>Candidates must submit an application, CV, statement of research accomplishments, prospective research project summary, and three letters of reference. Prospective Fellows should also identify a Brown Engineering faculty member or a collaborating group of Engineering faculty to serve as mentor of the proposed research project. Please consult our research website:</span><a href="http://www.brown.edu/academics/engineering/research">http://www.brown.edu/academics/engineering/research</a><span> for detailed information. </span></p>
<p><span>Applicants are encouraged to submit their materials by April 30, 2015 online through </span><a href="https://apply.interfolio.com/28252" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://apply.interfolio.com/28252</a><span>. The positions will remain open until filled. </span></p>
<p><span>Brown University strongly values racial, ethnic, and gender diversity and applicants from all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. </span>
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</div></div></div>Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:58:58 +0000Kyung-Suk Kim17692 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/17692#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/17692Solid Mechanics Faculty Position Opening at Brown
https://imechanica.org/node/11184
<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-6 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/73">job</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/179">solid mechanics</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center">
<strong><span>Brown University<br /></span></strong><strong><span>School of Engineering<br /></span></strong><strong><span>Faculty Position in Solid Mechanics</span></strong><span> </span>
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<span>The newly established School of Engineering at Brown University is seeking to fill a position in Solid Mechanics at any academic level to start in July 2012. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: micro/nano-scale solid mechanics, mechanics of cells and biological systems, soft matter mechanics, mechanics of materials for energy applications, computational mechanics, experimental mechanics, micro-electro-mechanical systems and nano-structures, multiscale modeling. Candidates should have expertise in the mechanics of structural, electronic, biological, and/or energy systems that are complementary to and synergistic with existing research areas in the School. The successful candidate is expected to make a significant contribution to the School’s research activities and to build a strong, externally funded research program. The candidate should also have a marked interest in, and demonstrated talent for, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.</span><span><span> </span></span>
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<span>The Solid Mechanics Group at Brown fosters a balanced program of research and instruction that integrates the perspectives of continuum mechanics, structure of matter, and materials science. The program has a long standing tradition of leadership through innovations in the analytical, computational, and experimental concepts and methodologies that form the core of the field.<span> </span>Research areas of particular strength in the Mechanics of Solids Group at Brown include: micro/nanoscale solid mechanics; computational and experimental mechanics of materials; deformation and failure in thin films; mechanics of adhesion and friction; biomechanics; multiscale materials modeling; and microstructural evolution in materials processing.<span> </span>Research in cellular and molecular biomechanics and in mechanics of energy storage systems is rapidly growing within the group.<span> </span></span><span> </span>
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<span>Applications should be received by December 31, 2011 to receive full consideration; however, the position will remain open until filled or the search is closed.<span> </span>Women and candidates who are members of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply.<span> </span>Brown University is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action employer.<span> </span></span><span> </span>
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<span>Positions are open at all levels. All candidates should submit a CV with a cover letter.<span> </span>The letter should discuss research plans, laboratory requirements and teaching interests.<span> </span>Expectations for the various levels of appointment, and instructions for additional materials to be submitted are:<span> </span></span>
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<span> </span><span>•<span> </span>Assistant Professor, tenure-track: Candidates should hold a Ph.D. and demonstrate potential for outstanding research and teaching.<span> </span>Candidates should arrange for at least 3 letters of reference to be submitted to the address below.</span><span> </span>
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<span> •<span> </span>Associate Professor, tenured or untenured: Candidates should have an outstanding record of research accomplishment and scholarly achievement, with concomitant strong evidence of emerging leadership in their field.<span> </span>Candidates should provide the names of 5 references whom the search committee may contact directly.</span>
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<span>•<span> </span>Professor, with tenure:<span> </span>Candidates should have an outstanding record of research accomplishment and scholarly achievement, with concomitant strong evidence of realized leadership in their field.<span> </span></span><span>Candidates should provide the names of 5 references whom the search committee may contact directly.</span><span><span> </span></span>
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<span>All application materials should be submitted to:</span><span><span> </span></span>
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<span> School of Engineering Hiring Initiative</span><span><span> <br />
</span></span><span>Solid Mechanics Search</span><span><span> </span><span> <br />
</span>Brown University</span><span><span> <br />
</span>184 Hope St.</span><span><span> <br />
</span>Providence, RI 02912</span><span><span> <br />
</span>URL: <a href="http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/brown/engineering">http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/brown/engineering</a></span><span> </span>
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<span>More information can be found at <a href="http://brown.edu/academics/engineering/facultysearch">http://brown.edu/academics/engineering/facultysearch</a>.<span> </span>Applications should be received by December 31, 2011 to receive full consideration.<span> </span></span>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:24:08 +0000Kyung-Suk Kim11184 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/11184#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/1118422nd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS
https://imechanica.org/node/2361
<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-6 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74">conference</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/18">micromechanics</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/95">nanomechanics</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/257">MEMS</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center">
Adelaide, Australia, August 24 - 29, 2008
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<strong>Final Announcement and Call for Papers</strong>
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<a href="http://ictam2008.adelaide.edu.au/">http://ictam2008.adelaide.edu.au</a>
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<strong>Scientific Program</strong><br />
The scientific program will consist of plenary opening and closing lectures, sectional lectures, mini-symposia, and contributed papers presented in lecture and seminar presentation sessions. Two additional lectures will be presented by the recipients of the Batchelor Prize in Fluid Mechanics and the Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics. These prizes will be presented for the first time at ICTAM2008. Invitations to present contributed papers will be made on the recommendation of the International Papers Committee, based on their review of submitted abstracts and short papers. The text of the opening and closing lectures, sectional lectures and mini-symposia introductory lectures will be printed in the Congress Proceedings to be published by Springer. All accepted Short Papers will be published on the CD-ROM Proceedings.
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<br /><strong>Opening Lecturer</strong><br />
John Hutchinson (USA)<br />
The role of mechanics in advancing thermal barrier coatings<br /><strong>Closing Lecturer</strong><br />
Jörg Imberger (Australia)<br />
Physical limnology: the queen and the servant
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In particular, you are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract to the following most interesting session!
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<strong>SM15 Nanostructures and MEMS</strong><br />
K. S. Kim (USA)<br />
F. de Bona (Italy)
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</div></div></div>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:15:13 +0000Kyung-Suk Kim2361 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/2361#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/2361Sharing sadness for loss of dear friends and students
https://imechanica.org/node/1263
<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-6 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/77">opinion</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Upon hearing the painful news of VPI tragedy, I am deeply saddened that we lost our young students and fellow faculty, in particular, Liviu Librescu, G. V. Loganathan and Kevin Granata. I would like to share the sorrow with the family and friends of the victims who lost their lives in the senseless crime. I am deeply compelled to write this message, since I am a faculty teaching young students applied mechanics/engineering like professors Librescu, Loganathan and Granata, and belong to a small community of Korean Americans. I feel helpless and guilty that I could not mentor our young people and hear such incomprehensible tragic news. </p>
<p>With condolences </p>
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<p>Kyung-Suk Kim</p>
<p>Professor of Engineering</p>
<p>Brown University</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:05:05 +0000Kyung-Suk Kim1263 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/1263#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/1263Heritage for Experimental Mechanicians
https://imechanica.org/node/598
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>On July 16, 1976, when I was writing my very first paper in U.S. with my lab senior Dr. Prashant Kumar and thesis advisor Professor <a href="/node/193">Rodney J. Clifton</a> to the Journal of Applied Physics, Professor Clifton put a copy of an article on my desk while I was away. The article was "Advice to Young Physicists" by Walther Bothe. It was translated from German to English in <a href="http://www.aip.org/pt/" target="_blank">Physics Today</a>, September, 1958. I do not know whether this advice still holds for the whole; however, I believe that most of the advice is still valuable for anyone, in particular, an experimentalist, who undertakes a piece of scientific work. Therefore, I would like to share his advice with the society of iMechanica by recollecting it here. - K.-S. Kim</p>
<p><strong>Advice to Young Physicists</strong></p>
<p>by W. Bothe</p>
<p>(Reproduced from <a href="http://www.aip.org/pt/" target="_blank">Physics Today</a>, September, 1958) Translated by Ira M. Freeman, Rutgers University, from Physikalische Blätter 14, Heft 1, 1958 </p>
<p>Translator's note: Professor Bothe wrote these observations at Christmas time, 1956, just a few weeks before his death. Although directed mainly to the young experimenter, his remarks based on the experience of a distinguished, productive scientific career have much to recommend them to anyone undertaking a piece of scientific work. </p>
<p><strong>Ideas</strong> </p>
<p>MANY a person has had a single fruitful idea at the right time and has built his scientific life's work upon it. As a rule, however, things are somewhat different. Of a hundred ideas that one carries around with him, ninety prove on closer scrutiny to be incapable of realization, inopportune, trivial, false, or something of the sort. Of the remaining ten, there is always one that is most promising, most practical, and easiest to execute. It takes time to find this one; instinct and intuition often play a decisive role here. Once you have found this idea, use all your energies to put it into practice, lest it be anticipated by others. </p>
<p>Even though the golden age of string and sealing wax is past, strive to keep your experimental setup as simple and flexible as possible. The ideal experimental arrangement is the one that breaks down as soon as its purpose is fulfilled. It is best to begin building your apparatus in the middle of the room. </p>
<p>Make it a rule to go through a new experiment from beginning to end in rough fashion, even though it may mean no end of trouble. The advantage is that in this way one sees at once the individual difficulties and sources of error. The worst difficulties are often found to lie in quite other places than anticipated. Physicists are only human, and cannot presume to know everything in advance. But later, every blow must count. Often a change in the method of attack is helpful, as Rutherford has pointed out. </p>
<p>It often turns out that the original program and aim cannot be held to, but it would be a mistake to give up such an investigation before finding out just why it did not succeed. Once this is established, have the courage to terminate the experiment. Given the right handling, the apparatus always does its best! </p>
<p>Even in cases where the experiment seems inherently feasible, it often pays to change to a more fundamental aim. As W. Wien has remarked, the main thing is to keep your eyes open when you experiment. In order to be able to change course whenever it may seem desirable, the experimental setup must be simple, clear, and mobile. Subsidiary components, e.g. complicated circuitry, must not be allowed to become an end in themselves. Incidentally, one of the deadliest sins of the experimental physicist is to replace, covertly, damaged equipment in the storeroom without seeing to its repair. </p>
<p><strong>Economy of Scientific Work</strong> </p>
<p>MAKE a daily schedule. Often, you will not be able to adhere to it; then it becomes your business to find out why. There is a grain of truth in W. Pauli's jest that in the PT Reichsanstalt [German Bureau of Standards] the cosmic radiation is turned off at quitting time each day. In the absence of a time schedule, there is always the danger that a piece of work will peter out with no tangible result. A timetable encourages concentration on a concrete goal and prevents one from getting lost in trivialities. A certain degree of laziness is proper for a physicist, but it must go hand in hand with mental flexibility. </p>
<p>It has happened more than once that, starting from an irrational or even false formulation of a question, unexpected results have been attained. There is an old military rule to the effect that it is better to do something wrong than to do nothing. One should occasionally take a chance on even a "stupid" experiment if it does not involve too great an expenditure of time. Acquaint yourself with literature, but do not have an abnormal fear of inadvertently repeating the work of another person. When the same ground is covered by two workers it is still not exactly the same thing. At least the emphasis is different. </p>
<p><strong>The Record Book</strong> </p>
<p>HERE is a place where many sins are committed. Avoid in principle the keeping of records of measurements on loose or removable pages. Paste them into the book at once, or copy them in. Geiger told of an instance to the contrary that occurred when he was working with Rutherford. The master was counting scintillations. Geiger sat beside him and wanted to take down the results as Rutherford called them out, but found, unfortunately, that he did not have his record book at hand. When he timidly explained this to Rutherford the latter screamed at him: "Write on your cuffs!" </p>
<p>In general, write everything down at once in your book--observational data on the right, computations, sketches of the setup, notes and results (framed in heavy lines) on the left. The pages should be numbered consecutively. The tearing out of pages and the throwing away of loose leaf pages filled with data also belong to the deadliest sins. When an experiment must be interrupted or discontinued it is imperative that the reason for this be marked on the left-hand page. All record books should be carefully put away, for even years later something that was originally thought to be wrong may attain significance.</p>
<p><strong>Writing the Paper</strong> </p>
<p>BEGIN this as soon as possible, at the latest right after finishing the measurements. Under no circumstances wait until the apparatus has been dismantled. It is a mistake in organization, amounting to gross misconduct, to take a vacation after finishing your measurements, only to begin weeks or months later to write things up. There are good reasons for saying this: First, the measurements must still be fresh in your memory when you write, in case there are places in the record that are not clear. Second, one often notices only when writing the report that there may still be gaps in the argument--gaps that can often be closed by a short additional experiment if the apparatus is still available. With only slight exaggeration, one may say that the manuscript should be finished, to the point of merely inserting the final results, at the time the measurements are concluded. </p>
<p>Concern over the style of your report always pays off. Simple, clear, short sentences should be the aim. The first thing to consider is the decisive formulation of your results and conclusions. </p>
<p>Let the manuscript rest for a week or two and then look at it again with the eyes of a reader who is only half interested and somewhat unfriendly. Then it is time to do the final polishing. One last word: He who is not completely wrapped up in a piece of work had better leave it strictly alone. </p>
<p>One must be able to admit that one's problems ripen in the subconscious even outside of working hours. It is a poor sign if things are otherwise. </p>
<p><em>Walther Bothe, who died on February 8, 1957, was director of the Institute of Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. For his development of the coincidence counting method for studying cosmic rays he was named a co-winner (with Max Born) of the1954 Nobel Prize in physics.</em></p>
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