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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (@MITMechE) seeks candidates for faculty positions starting July 1, 2024 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. More Info + Apply: meche.mit.edu/faculty-positions Questions: mefacultysearch2024@mit.edu

Mini-symposium title 

2-8 – Mechanics of Soft Robotic Devices      

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Organisers 

Ellen Roche (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Xuanhe Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eimear Dolan (NUI Galway)

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Designing complex architectured materials with generative adversarial networks

Yunwei Mao, Qi He, Xuanhe Zhao

I am deeply saddened to share this news.

http://news.mit.edu/2020/professor-emeritus-ali-argon-pioneer-mechanics-...

Ali will be missed by many of us.

Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots: Design (Code), Applications and Future Directions

This post was adopted from a News & Views by Zhao and Kim recently published on Nature [1].

Faculty Positions in Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for faculty positions starting September 2019 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. Appointment will be at the assistant or untenured associate professor level.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for faculty positions starting July 2018 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. Appointments will be at the assistant or untenured associate professor level. In special cases, a senior faculty appointment will be considered. Our department is committed to fostering interdisciplinary research that can address grand challenges facing our society.

We would like to let you know that free registration for the upcoming 8th annual New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (NEW.Mech 2017) is open now.  The NEW.Mech 2017 is taking place at MIT on October 14, 2017.

Dear Colleagues,

Special Issue on 3D Assembly by Cutting, Bending and Folding in Extreme Mechanics Letters

When patterned with different materials, gradients or cut-outs, thin structures such as sheets and rods can bend or fold either spontaneously or by actuation in response to a force or stimulus to form a pre-designed three dimensional structure. This special issue addresses the design and mechanics of these structures with a special emphasis on programmability and non-linearity.  

Manuscript Submission:

Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces

Hyunwoo Yuk, Teng Zhang,Shaoting Lin, German Alberto Parada & Xuanhe Zhao

Nature Materials (2015) doi:10.1038/nmat4463

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for faculty positions starting in September 2016 or thereafter. Appointment will be at the assistant or untenured associate professor level. In special cases, a senior faculty appointment will be considered. We seek candidates who will provide inspiration and leadership in research, contribute proactively to both undergraduate and graduate level teaching in the Mechanical Engineering department and add to the diversity of the academic community.

EML Special Issue on 3D Assembly by Cutting, Bending and Folding

When patterned with different materials, gradients or cut-outs, thin structures such as sheets and rods can bend or fold either spontaneously or by actuation in response to a force or stimulus to form a pre-designed three dimensional structure. This special issue addresses the design and mechanics of these structures with a special emphasis on programmability and non-linearity.  

Manuscript Submission:

Attached is an ad for a faculty search at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT.  We have multiple openings this year and are looking for exceptional candidates, in particular in mechanics, materials, and related areas. 

The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for faculty positions starting in September 2015. Appointment will be at the assistant or untenured associate professor level.

This is a friendly reminder to draw your attention to the Symposium on **Soft Materials and Structures** to take place at the upcoming 51th Meeting of the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES) at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Oct 1-3, 2014). More information can be found on the meeting's website:

www.conf.purdue.edu/ses2014

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to present your work at "Symposium on Mechanics of Soft Materials" in ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition ASME Congress and Exposition, Montreal's downtown convention center, 14-20 November 2014.

This is a friendly reminder to draw your attention to the Symposium on **Soft Materials and Structures** to take place at the upcoming 50th Meeting of the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES) at Brown University, Providence, RI (July 28-31, 2013). More information can be found in the meeting's website: http://www.brown.edu/Conference/ses2013/

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to to draw your attention to the Symposium on **Soft Materials and Structures** to take place at the upcoming 49th Meeting of the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES) at GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, GA (October 10-12, 2011). More information can be found in the meeting's website: http://ses2012.org/

The Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (www.mrsec.duke.edu) is seeking outstanding candidates with expertise in soft matter research for positions on its technical staff. Detailed descriptions for the positions of Executive Director, Research Scientist, and Postdoctoral Fellows are available at:
http://www.pratt.duke.edu/research/mrsec

Xuanhe Zhao 

Soft Active Materials Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, In press 

Abstract 

The Duke Soft Active Materials Laboratory directed by Prof Xuanhe Zhao is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to study mechanics of polymers and hydrogels with applications in tissue regenerations. The work will be carried out in close collaboration with the Duke Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory directed by Prof Farshid Guilak.

NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS OF DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS
Xuanhe Zhao, Soo Jin Adrian Koh, Zhigang Suo