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.

Applications are invited for postdoctoral positions within the Micro and Nano Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University.  The successful candidate will participate in a vibrant interdisciplinary research group and be involved in projects addressing electro-thermo-mechanical characterization of 1-D nanostructures, and probe-based techniques for direct-write fabrication of biological substrates and NEMS.  Broad collaborations are facilitated through participation in the Northwestern Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, the Medical School, and Argonne and Sandia National Laboratories.

Hello iMechanicians,

I am looking for engineering positions in the field of fatigue and fracture mechanics, vibrations and structural dynamics, and finite element analysis. Position could be Entry-level to Mid-level, involve Independent research/Team-member responsbilities, categorized in any and all of Design/Test/Analysis and Simulation/Validation/Performance evaluation, etc.

I also look for interesting Post-Doc positions in promising areas. Please find my resume attached below.

I welcome you to contact me at gopinathv@ou.edu, or call me at Ph# 405-410-2296.

I am on OPT now (started this August 5th, 2008: OPT=Optional Practical Training or temporary work permit) and can start the position from the 1st of September 2008.

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

A Cosserat Point Element (CPE) for finite deformation elastic-viscoplastic materials

Background: Recently the theory of a Cosserat Point has been used to develop an eight noded 3-D brick Cosserat Point Element (CPE) for finite deformation elasticity.  In contrast with standard finite element procedures, the CPE approach treats the element as a structure and proposes a strain energy function that ensures positive stiffness to all inhomogeneous modes of deformation.  This leads to a CPE that does not experience hourglass instabilities exhibited by elements in commercial codes.

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:

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Hi, I am a master student in Stuttgart University of Germany
I study Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures

http://www.msc.commas.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html  

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.

The candidate should have a PhD in Computational Mechanics, Applied Mathematics or a closely related field. Strong background in nonlinear mechanics, finite elements, C/C++ software development and high performance computing are expected. Although not required, experience in biological fluid dynamics, computational geometry and domain decomposition methods are desirable.

The position is for up to three years.

Dr. Ted Belytschko of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Northwestern University invites applications for a Post-Doctoral  Fellowships in the area of computational fracture.  Experience with FORTRAN is necessary; some experience with MPI is desirable. Applicants without extensive experience in FORTRAN need not apply.  Furthermore, applicants with experience with DYNA and/or LS-DYNA will be given preference.  The appointment will be for a minimum of two years.   Interested applicants should send their curriculum vitae along with a list of three references to Robert Gracie at rgracie@northwestern.edu

Salary scale: Junior Lecturer/Lecturer (highest entry point 2 on Lecturer scale)

• Lecturer: €52,112 - €85,531 p.a. (approx. $82,017 - $134,623)
• Junior Lecturer: €42,978 - €53,761 p.a. (approx. $67,652 - $84,612)
• Maximum starting point at Lecturer scale: €61,696 (approx. $97,107)

Appointment: From date of appointment to September 2012, otherwise 4 years.

Closing date: The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 5th September 2008.

A postdoc position is available in the computer-aided engineering research lab at the University of Cincinnati. The research will focus on modeling and simulation of nonlinear material responses such as spallation in high-temperature alloys under laser shock peening.

A Postdoc position in Complexity Science of Multiscale Materials via Cyber-Enabled Computations is open in Professor Wing Kam Liu's group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. The candidate must have a PhD degree in either Computational Mechanical Science,  Computational Mechanics, or closely related fields. We are particularly interested in a person who have good commend of written and spoken English, strong background in 3D nonlinear finite elements and meshfree methods, nonlinear constitutive equations, parallel computations in scientific Fortran and C/C++ and MPI.

A postdoctoral research position is available immediately in the Johnson research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The position will involve continuum finite element modeling of multiphysics and interfacial phenomena in micro- and nanoscale electronic materials processing applications.

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Graduate assistantship positions are available in the Computational olid Mechanics Laboratory (http://lsms.epfl.ch/) at the Ecole olytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (http://www.epfl.ch/).
We are interested in highly motivated Ph.D. candidates with an academic background (B.S. and M.S.) in either Mechanical Engineering, Civil ngineering or Computational Materials Science.