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The Department of Civil Engineering at NCSU has an opening for tenure track faculty position in the general areas of Structural Engineering and/or Mechanics. The plan is to hire the best candidate irrespective of the specific area of research focus. Interested applicants are urged to act quickly, as the final review of applications may begin as early as next week (the week of January 11). The official advertisement is given below.

Tenure Track Faculty Position in Structural Engineering and Mechanics

There is an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research position in the Advanced Computational Research Laboratory at RPI, Troy NY to work on problems involving high strain rate loading conditions and multiscale modeling. Encouraged to apply are creative, self-motivated candidates with a sound background in computational mechanics. RPI is home to the CCNI, one of the most powerful university-based super-computational research facilities in the world.

A postdoctoral research position in the modeling of failure mechanisms for lithium ion batteries is available immediately at the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy in Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The candidate will work on the study of failure mechanisms of lithium ion batteries which are related to lithium ion diffusion, heat generation and transfer, chemical reaction, and stress development inside the battery.

A research engineer position is available in the Composite and Heterogeneous Materials Modeling and Simulation Laboratory (COHMAS) at King Abdullah Univeristy of Science and Technology (KAUST).

This position will be mainly engaged in two kind of activities:

1) Act as the Lab manager from the computational and simulation side, and support students, post-docs and researchers in the group in developing applications and usinghigh performance computing facilities;

A postdoctoral position is avilable in the Composite and Heterogeneous Materials Modeling and Simulation (COHMAS) Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The successful candidate will be engaged in modeling and simulation of degradation in composite materials.

Doctoral candidate position in biomechanics at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

Two post-doctoral researcher positions focusing on the two topics listed below are available immediately at Research Center for Applied Sciencs at Academia Sinica (中央研究院) in Taipei, Taiwan.

1) Ab initio MD simulations of Li ion diffusion on / inside novel electrode materials using accelerated MD. Candidates with expertises in ab initio MD, in particular, BOMD,  are highly desirable.

We have several postdoctoral positions open, funded by an European Research Council Starting Grant. We look for candidates with a PhD in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or
Applied/Computational Mathematics. In addition to excellent communication skills, initiative and an inclination for inter-disciplinary research, experience or interest in preferably more than two of the following areas is required:

1. Computer simulations (continuum and/or atomistic methods), programming

The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin has a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning September 2010 in the area of Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials.

University of Minnesota Civil Engineering Faculty Search

The Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF) is the University of Michigan site of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and is hiring a new domain expert in computation and modeling.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado
at Boulder invites applications for two full-time positions beginning
fall 2010. The positions are for tenure-track assistant professors with
disciplinary expertise in the areas of (1) Bioengineering (posting #808181), and (2) Solid Mechanics/Materials Physics (posting #808182);
higher rank may be considered for experienced candidates. Candidates
are expected to strongly complement and strengthen existing
departmental research in biomechanical/biomaterials engineering, energy
and environmental engineering, micro/nanosystems engineering, materials
engineering or solid/fluid mechanics. Candidates must have an earned

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks an outstanding individual for a tenure-track faculty position in Mechanics.  The appointment is expected to be at the assistant professor level; in an exceptional case, a senior faculty appointment may be possible. Faculty duties include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, development of an independent, internationally-recognized research program, and supervision of student research.

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University invites applications and nominations for a tenured faculty position beginning in September 2010 at the Associate or Full Professor level. Candidates with well established, well funded and internationally recognized research programs are sought to expand the department’s research efforts. The position is in the general area of Nanotechnology, preferably with an emphasis in mechanics. Collaboration with our NSF funded Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing as well as excellence in teaching are expected.

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Oxford - Department of Engineering Science

Grade 7: Salary £28,839 - £35,469 p.a.

We have an opening for a postdoctoral scholar in the area of computational mechanics. Specific problems of interest include molecular dynamics and meshless method for continuum damage mechanics. Rich experience of C++, X-windows image processing, and Fortran programming (especially parallel processing) is required.   Contact: Professor Jung-Wuk Hong at Michigan State University.  Email: jwh at egr dot msu dot edu.

TEM Postdoc Position Available at Sandia National Lab.

I have an open position for a Post-doctoral researcher in the area of biomimetics and novel ceramic composite armor designs, starting immediately.  

Faculty Opportunity in Thermal Sciences/Energy Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University

http://www.mems.duke.edu/employment

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