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Please see the attached flyer from Editor-in-Chief Ioannis Chasiotis. 

Dear all, 

Qiming Wang (USC), Lihua Jin (UCLA) and myself (UCSD) will organize 1st southern california mechanics workshop. Please see the flyer attached. 

All the best, 

shengqiang

The Musculoskeletal Imaging and Orthopaedic Biomechanics (MIOB) Laboratory at the University of Vermont is seeking a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering to start in the Fall semester of 2020.

We are seeking strongly motivated candidates to fill multiple Research Fellow positions in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The successful candidates will work on experimental and/or computational studies in the area of cell mechanics, tissue morphogenesis, and bio-hybrid soft robotics. We are particularly interested in candidates with research experience in bioengineering, soft materials, mechanobiology and applied mechanics.  

I have an opening for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University.  The postdoctoral fellow will work with PhD students and experimental collaborators on a range of projects dealing with coupled field phenomena and fracture/damage mechanics.   Projects here involve collaborations with Duke's medical school as well as researchers at other institutions and the national laboratories.  

The Taylor-Quinney coefficient is universally understood as a manifestation of the stored energy of cold work, and one therefore assumes a one to one correspoindence between its value and the microstructural state of the deformed material. In the attached letter (to appear in Phys Rev Letters), we question this assumption by bringing new experimental evidence that the thermomechanical conversion is a function of the kinetics of the process and not of the final microstructure only.

Polytechnique Montréal is looking for a post-doctoral fellow having a very strong training in continuum mechanics/numerical methods to work on the phase field modelling of damage in materials. This one-year project will consist in deploying and applying an existing phase field code at two industrial partners: one in optics and the other in aerospace. 

Please send your CVs at my address: martin.levesque(at)polymtl.ca

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2019. 

Special Issue "Entropy Based Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/fatigue

The Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester invites applications for a non-tenure, instructional track full time faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Applicants must be dedicated teachers with outstanding educational accomplishments in broad areas of mechanical engineering including design, modern simulation techniques including finite element, finite difference and multi-body dynamics, familiarity in both solid and fluid mechanics, energy and precision engineering and contemporary manufacturing techniques. This faculty position includes responsibilities primarily in undergraduate instruction, with opportunities to participate in graduate education, as well as in collaborative and independent research. The Individual will also be required to participate in various departmental committees as well as advise undergraduates. A preference will be given to those applicants with a strong record of instruction, course development and hands-on lab experience. The successful candidate should anticipate excellent interactions with faculty, staff and undergraduate mechanical engineering students. The mechanical engineering department is located in the Hopeman Engineering Building on the University’s River Campus.

The initial appointment will be for 2 years and is renewable. The anticipated start date is July 2020.

Minimum requirements: PhD degree preferably in mechanical engineering and previous teaching experience. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

To apply, please submit a single PDF file consisting of the following:

Letter of interest, complete curriculum vitae
Detailed statement of teaching philosophy
List of courses where you participated in instruction, class size, staff (TA’s, graders, etc.)
Please include your level of responsibility for instruction and course development. Include at least 2 references that are familiar with your teaching experiences.
The department is fully committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community and the curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths and experiences in this area. The University of Rochester is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

EOE / Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Disabled

Dear Colleagues,

Following up on ASME IMECE 2019 last week, please find attached the slides and minutes of the Soft Materials technical committee meeting.