applied mechanics

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University invite applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in one or more of the areas of: (1) optimization, design, control, and decision making under uncertainty; (2) coupled-field problems in geo-mechanics with application to energy production, energy storage, hazardous waste storage/disposal, and environmental protection; (3) new or emerging materials with application to renewable energy; and (4) computational science and engineering with impact on societally-relevant problems and the

EMI 2015, the annual conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, will be held at Stanford University on June16-19, 2015. It will be chaired by Prof. Ronaldo Borja ( Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University).

Dear Mechanicians,

The following advertisement for a tenure track faculty position will be of interest to you. Please feel free to contact me if you have queries.

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A position of associate professor is available for foreign scientists at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy). Details can be found at: http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=57802 

A postdoc position is available in the Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Group (http://tamg.mem.drexel.edu/). Of particular interest are expertise in subcontinuum and continuum computational mechanics methods. Available researh projects include both alloy and composite material systems. 

Applicants should submit a full CV, a statement of research and their earliest employment availability to akontsos [at] coe.drexel.edu.

2014 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award - Professor Glaucio H. Paulino

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Glaucio H. Paulino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who is the recipient of the 2014 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the EMI 2013 conference has been extended to February 17, 2013.  For details on the conference to be held on August 4-7, 2013 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois,  visit http://www.emi2013.northwestern.edu/ .

Forthcoming papers of International Journal of Applied Mechanics (IJAM) Vol.4 No.3:

1. “On The Large Strain Torsion Of HCP Polycrystals”,  P.D. Wu, H. Wang (Mcmaster University, Canada), K.W. Neale (University Of Sherbrooke, Canada).