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The DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, University of California, Berkeley, seeks applications for two faculty positions. One position is at the tenure-track, Assistant Professor level and is open to all areas of mechanical engineering including, but not limited to: (1) Biomechanical Engineering, (2) Control and Robotics, (3) Design, (4) Dynamics, (5) Energy Science and Technology, (6) Fluid Mechanics, (7) Manufacturing, (8) Materials, (9) Solid Mechanics, (10) Micro and Nano Science and Engineering, and (11) Ocean and Offshore Engineering.  

Readers of this site might be interested in the following paper appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and has received considerable attention in the media:

The roles of impact and inertia in the failure of a shoelace knot

The paper discusses a mechanism for the the accidental untying of a shoelace knot that many of us, including me, experience on a daily basis. The failure is sudden and catastropic as can be seen in the following video:

The DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, University of California, Berkeley, seeks applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in the areas of Design, Robotics, Applied Energy Systems, and Nanoscale Systems Engineering.

The online resource on rotations, http://rotations.berkeley.edu, has been operational now for nearly 3 years.

Many in this community may have heard the sad news of the passing last weekend of Michael Carroll.  Two obituaries have been posted: one at U.C. Berkeley where he was a faculty member for many years and another at Rice University where he was a former Dean of the College of Engineering.

http://www.me.berkeley.edu/about/news/former-me-professor-michael-carroll-passed-away-january-17

Dear Colleague,

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, seeks applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in the following areas:

 Design, Control and Robotics, Applied Energy Systems and Nanoscale Systems Engineering.

For those of you interested in a terse introductory guide to the Finite Element Method, you might find the latest book by my colleague at U.C. Berkeley, Tarek Zohdi, to be helpful:

For those of you preparing to teach a course on Lagrangian Mechanics of Rigid Bodies in the forthcoming semester or quarter, you may be interested to read a new expository paper by Arun Srinivasa at Texas A&M and myself:

 A Simple Treatment of Constraint Forces and Constraint Moments in Rigid Body Dynamics, ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews, To Appear (2014).