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Open Rank Professor - Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering

Submitted by mechse-faculty… on Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:34

The Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions.

Applied Mechanics and Aerodynamics

Submitted by fkadioglu on Tue, 10/21/2014 - 06:25

Two postdoc candidates for composite materials and one for aerodynamic studies will be rented for a three-year project at University of Turkish Aeronautical Association. For more details please contact: fkadioglu [at] thk.edu.tr

ICCM 2015: MS-049 Computational Modelling of Biological and Biochemical Systems

Submitted by Jingjie Yeo on Tue, 10/21/2014 - 01:44

The 6th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2015) is slated to held in Auckland, New Zealand, on the 14th of July, 2015. It is my greatest pleasure to invite interested participants to submit their abstracts for presentation at a mini-symposium which I am organizing, titled:

MS-049 Computational Modelling of Biological and Biochemical Systems

For further information, please visit the official websites:

http://www.sci-en-tech.com/ICCM/index.php/ICCM2015/2015

Assistant or Associate Professor-Computational Materials Science

Submitted by bandsma on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 18:33

ComputationalMaterialsScience
Assistant or Associate Professor #1291

Multiple PhD/Postdoc Positions/Spring 2015

Submitted by skumaar on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 10:58

research

Barrier and protective Coatings

Advanced Materials and Multifunctional Structures (AMMS) Group at Masdar Institute (MI) is seeking suitably qualified candidates for PhD/Postdoctoral positions. Please see attached document for details

Special Issue "Mechanics of Biomaterials"

Submitted by azadpoor on Sun, 10/19/2014 - 07:45

The mechanical behavior of biomedical materials and biological tissues are important for their proper function. This holds true, not only for biomaterials and tissues whose main function is structural such as skeletal tissues and their synthetic substitutes, but also for other tissues and biomaterials. Moreover, there is an intimate relationship between mechanics and biology at different spatial and temporal scales. It is therefore important to study the mechanical behavior of both synthetic and living biomaterials.

PhD studentship at URV, Tarragona, Spain

Submitted by fhuera on Sat, 10/18/2014 - 08:46

job

PhD studentship: Details in http://www.etseq.urv.es/life/index.php/Jobs

PhD Studentship in Design of Polymeric Foams

Submitted by Helen Gardner on Fri, 10/17/2014 - 09:54

A 4 year project, in collaboration with SABIC, on the design of polymeric foams will be performed at the Cambridge University department of Engineering. The project will explore the relationship between microstructure and macroscopic properties of a range of new reinforced foams, including composite-reinforced foams.

Extinct Kangaroos Couldn't Hop

Submitted by Lee Margetts on Thu, 10/16/2014 - 11:16

rigid body kinematics

Another couple of interesting articles to share. Using some "mechanics" principles, researchers have reasoned that 100,000 years ago, kangaroos were too heavy to hop.

A while ago, a different group of researchers published the results of computer modelling (using genetic algorithms) that showed dinosaurs might have hopped and skipped as forms of locomotion! (But only if particularly happy?)

These articles might be good to share with undergraduate engineers for discussion in tutorials. There are issues to discuss with assumptions in both cases.