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Highly qualified applicants are sought for two graduate research assistant positions in the areas of computational structural mechanics and design optimization.  The selected candidates will enroll in a PhD program in engineering and work with a team of researchers at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) in the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University.

INRIA (the French national institute for research in computer science and control) has currently eight centres, and the Opale Project-Team is primarily located in the Sophia Antipolis Centre, near the city of Antibes. Our research focuses on functional and numerical analysis, and numerical simulation, with a special emphasis on optimization in science and engineering (compressible aerodynamics, electromagnetics, structural design, etc) with strong links with industry.

The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, invites applications for available position for Research Engineer / Research Officer in the field of Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI).

There are two positions available for doctoral studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Michigan State University.  Two-year fundings are secured for those positions.  Research area is computational mechanics especially for meshless methods, wave propagation excited by piezo-material, interconnect reliability analysis under shock loading, and  structural response under extreme loadings.  Strong mathematical background with programming knowledge and experience with commercial FEA packages such as ADINA, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, etc. will be considered. 

Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Looking for energetic researchers with strong background in constitutive modeling or multiscale material simulations. Specialty on fatigue and fracture of metals, polymer or short fiber composites is a plus.  The primary research will be focused on physics-based damage, fracture, and fatigue modeling and simulations at various scales.  If interested, please contact Dr. Yibin Xue via email or visit her website.

Highly motivated PhD or MS/PhD candidates are sought for
research in computational mechanics and inverse problems in the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

A postdoctoral position at Sandia National Labs in Livermore, CA is available for an applied mechanics engineer with a strong background in computational constitutive model development. The work will support our current projects in the areas of continuum plasticity and failure modeling. The applicant will also be expected to implement models into Sandia computer codes for high-performance computing simulations. In addition, the candidate will collaborate with structural analysts to apply these advanced models to Sandia applications.

A postdoctoral position is immediately available in the areas of multiscale/multiresolution formulations and analysis in computational mechanics/physics. The project entails investigation of stochastic upscaling techniques and derivations of reduced-order models. Interested applicants should preferably have backround in uncertainty modeling and/or statistical learning. Proficiency in scientific computing and programming is necessary.

Inquiries and applications (including a detailed CV with names of three references) should be directed to:

One J.W. and I.C.M. Roderick scholarship (Stipend + Tuition if applicable) is available for a suitably qualified student with an Honours degree (or equivalent) in Engineering to undertake full time research leading to a PhD degree in the School of Civil Engineering.

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company has immediate openings in Computational Geomechanics and Rock Physics at its Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory in Annandale, NJ. 

To be considered, applicants must satisfy the requirements described in the attached flyer and submit a cover letter and resume directly to the ExxonMobil website (www.exxonmobil.com/ex).

A postdoctoral position is available starting Fall 2008 in the area of computational solid mechanics. A successful candidate is expected to have a strong background in multiscale modeling and programming experience. While experience in plasticity using finite element methods or dislocation dynamics is a plus , all outstanding candidates will be considered.

Applicants must provide a detailed resume and  at least three references to: Prof. Marisol Koslowski, marisol@purdue.edu.

The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich invites applications for a Professorship in Continuum Mechanics at the Full or Associate Professor level.  Submit applications before 30 September 2008.

We are seeking to hire an outstanding candidate as a post-doctoral fellow to work on large-scale molecular dynamics of polymers and polymer composites. The project focuses on the characterization of the molecular mechanisms that govern the mechanical responseof these materials. The successful candidate will work in the Strachan group and will have the opportunity to interact with experimentalists and theoreticians in academia, industry and national labs.

A postdoc position in multiscale stochastic computation will be available in Fall 2008. Experience on finite elements, multiscale methods, high performance/parallel computing, or computational fracture/damage modeling is desired. Please contact:      

X. Frank Xu, xxu1@stevens.edu
http://personal.stevens.edu/~xxu1

An engineer position is available for PhD graduates from the areas of solid mechanics at the Houston area. Abilities of design, experimentation, and good communication skill are required. Please contact zyong1510@yahoo.com if interested.

We have an opening for a post doctoral associate to work on biomimetic fibrillar interfaces.  We are seeking a person with skills and interests in mechanical testing and microfabrication, and background in contact and fracture mechanics.  The work will be in the group of Anand Jagota at Lehigh University in collaboration with the group of Herbert Hui at Cornell University.   Please contact either Anand Jagota (anj6@lehigh.edu) or Herbert Hui (ch45@cornell.edu) if you are interested.

There is a potential opening for a graduate student research assistantship in Department of Mechanical Engineering, at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Interested students with strong academic background with interest in theory and experiments in the areas of dynamics and vibrations, applied (solid) mechanics are encouraged to apply. Initial queries to be addressed to Srikanth (spa21@bath.ac.uk).

Several postdoctoral and PhD research positions are currently open in the Advanced Computational Technology (ACT) group at the University of Pittsburgh for the following research projects in the multidisciplinary areas of computational nanomechanics, bio-nanotechnology, renewable energy, and nanomedicine:

A postdoctoral research associate position is available starting October 1st at the Department of Engineering in Cambridge. The successful candidate will work on a project on parallel numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction with application to life sciences.