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Bring researchers from industries to iMechanica

Zhigang Suo's picture

Posts on mechanics in industries may attract considerable interest. The audience will be mechanicians working in industries, students planning industrial careers, and academics looking for industrial collaborations.

Contributors will be industrial people having ties with the community of Applied Mechanics, and academics having fruitful industrial collaborations. One can post, for example, challenging problems in industries, broad industrial trends, and cultural difference between industries and universities. Of course, a really technical post should be regarded as a publication, subject to the review process of the contributor's company. We will leave the decision to the individual contributor.

Paul Steif once posted a perceptive entry in Applied Mechanics News on broadening the reach of mechanics. Here is a paragraph from his entry:

"Mechanics is a field that is broad and deep; not often do we push the edges in ways that are fundamental and broadly useful. But, we try. Still, why is that the only work product we value? This partially keeps us from serving practitioners. In my own experience, problems often arise in practice that do not demand a fundamental advance in mechanics or engineering science generally. They do require skill (sometimes approaching artistry) in integrating and adapting existing ideas and approaches. Could that knowledge and experience be recorded and retrievable (aside from issues of confidentiality)? Perhaps this becomes more feasible as we move to publishing modes that go beyond journals and include larger repositories. There is also a separate, non-negligible issue that the academy would need to devise some way of recognizing and rewarding insightful contributions that advance practice."

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