Composite Materials & Dynamics Laboratory at University of Missouri, Columbia develops innovative solutions for acoustic/elastic wave control, smart materials, and structural health monitoring. We seek exceptional postdoc scientists to work closely with our research group on exciting research in multifunctional metamaterials for manipulating acoustic/elastic wave propagation, structural health monitoring and sensor applications.

Essential Duties:

As a member of a world-class research team, she/he will:

We plan to recruit a full time postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southampton to start in early 2016 for the duration of 2.5 years. This multidisciplinary project focuses on design and integration of a multi-sensor system for medical device applications. Through implementing and exploiting these systems, he/she will also carry out scientific studies on biomechanical understanding and disseminate findings through journal publications and conference presentations.

Candidates with general mechatronics background are suitable. Experience in any of the following areas are desirable including instrumentation, control, embedded systems, design & computing, programming, sensor systems, signal/image processing, vision based systems etc.

To express interest and/or for further information, please provide your CV and contact Prof. Liudi Jiang (L.Jiang [at] soton.ac.uk), Tel: +44 (0)23 80598748.

The performances of graphene sheet in micro- and nano-electronics and devices are significantly affected by its morphology, which depends on the surface features of the supporting substrate. The substrates with non-developable convex or concave surface are widely used with graphene sheet in applications but rarely studied. Therefore, theoretical models are established based on energy analysis to explain the adhesion mechanisms and predict the morphology of the monolayer graphene sheet on non-developable surface.

The Corporate CAE group for Becton Dickinson is looking for a CAE Senior Staff Engineer at the Research Triangle Park, NC USA location (Raleigh-Durham area).

Fully funded PhD positions are available to work in any area of theoretical solid mechanics. The candidate will officially be associated with the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India.
Webpage of the research group: http://www.iith.ac.in/~prashant_saxena/
Webpage of IIT Hyderabad: http://www.iith.ac.in

Many in this community may have heard the sad news of the passing last weekend of Michael Carroll.  Two obituaries have been posted: one at U.C. Berkeley where he was a faculty member for many years and another at Rice University where he was a former Dean of the College of Engineering.

http://www.me.berkeley.edu/about/news/former-me-professor-michael-carroll-passed-away-january-17

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit your 1 page abstract to our Mini-Symposium (MS11) "Instabilities and Bifurcations in Solids, Structures and Soft Materials" in 2016 EMI International Conference – Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference of ASCE.

Zhejiang University (ZJU) is one of the earliest and most prestigious universities in China. Department of Engineering Mechanics, taking comprehensive advantages of ZJU and School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, focuses on multidisciplinary research in Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Dynamics and Control. ZJU is seeking faculty candidates for its newly launched, highly competitive and well-funded “Hundred Talents Program” according to the tenure-track rules.

Planck submitted his doctoral dissertation in 1879, at the age of 21. According to Planck’s autobiography, his dissertation elaborated on Clausius's entropy and its role in distinguishing reversible and irreversible processes. His dissertation failed to interest his professors, Helmholtz and Kirchhoff among them. Planck subsequently, as a young academic, applied the principle of the increase of entropy to analyze phases and ideal-gas mixtures.