A post-doc position is offered at the Ecole Centrale of Nantes France.

Ideally, this post of mine should carry a poll, but I guess as an ordinary user, I cannot insert one.

Currently, I am writing a small software program that is especially designed to help learn FEM. For instance, I will be providing detailed listings for every intermediate step, e.g. all those [D], [B], [k], etc. matrices for each element, as well as the final assembled global system {F} = [K]{d} and its solution separately at each Gauss point. Only linear static problems for the time being; will add transients/eigenvalue problems in near future.

Needless to add, to make it all easy to use, I am providing a GUI as well.

Post doctoral associate or post-graduate researcher position is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Catholic University of America ,Washington, DC. The candidate should be proficient in C++ programming and OOP concepts and preferably (but not necessarily) GIS applications. PhD degree is not necessary. The project involves developing an agent-based fish life cycle model for San Francisco Bay and Delta.

Global Strategies Group is looking for a Scientific Programmer to design, develop and implement software environment/components for geometry representation and mesh generation in support of computational mechanics applications

I'm leaving the US in a couple of days and will probably take a hiatus of a few months from iMechanica.  Before I leave, I want to tell you about a C++ idiom that eases the implementation and use of multiple material models in a computational mechanics code.

The first book on C++ idioms was by Jim Copilien sometime in the late 1990s called "Advanced C++: Programming Styles and Idioms".  The idea of such idioms has become considerably widespread since then - so much so that there is a Wikibook on the subject .

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