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Call for abstracts, ASME IMECE 2013, Topic 11-10, Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability

Submitted by HsiaoYing Shad… on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 15:37

Dear Colleagues, on behalf of the organizing committee, I cordially invite your participation in Track 11, Topic 10: Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability, as part of the 2013 ASME IMECE conference to be held in San Diego, CA during November 15-21, 2013.

Please see the attached flyer for details.

Thank you,

Shadow Huang

Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

ICILLS 2014 - 4th International Conference on Impact Of Lightweight Structures

Submitted by Reuben Govender on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 07:49

conference

The Blast Impact and Survivability Research Unit (BISRU) of the
University of Cape Town has been given the privilege to host the 4th
International Conference on Impact Loading of Lightweight Structures.

Is thermoelectric conversion efficiency of a composite bounded by its constituents?

Submitted by jiangyuli on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 01:36

research

Thermoelectric; composite; conversion efficiency; bounds

Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 053905 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4791684

EU call for researchers at Post-Doc level Deadline March 1st.

Submitted by Kalle Nilsson on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 22:54

job

A new call for researchers at Post-Doc level to work at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has been launched. You will find all information at following addresses:

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=1410&obj_id=16080&dt_code=NWS&lang=en&ori=MOR

and http://europa.eu/epso/apply/jobs/cast/2013/cast_jrc/index_en.htm

Grants for Workshop on "Physics-based fracture and damage mechanics" in Antalya/Turkey, May 15-17, 2013

Submitted by Kalle Nilsson on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 22:07

We would like to inform you about a Workshop on "Physics-based fracture and damage mechanics" in Antalya/Turkey, May 15-17, 2013.

The workshop is co-organized by the Joint Research Centre (European Commission) and TOBB University of Economics and Technology. The Workshop is funded by the European Commission’s Integration and Enlargement Action. The participants from target countries* (citizen of or working in a target country) can be fully financially supported by the European Commission.

Staff position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Research Associate - Structural Mechanics for Reactor Applications

Submitted by rundugrun on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 21:38

job

materials modeling

mechanical engineering

structural mechanics

materials behavior

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking candidates for a staff position in Structural Mechanics for Reactor Applications. The full job description follows. Please contact me at crossdr [at] ornl.gov (crossdr[at]ornl[dot]gov) or apply online at http://1.usa.gov/XTm5NN.

Research Associate - Structural Mechanics for Reactor Applications

Purpose

Subra Suresh chosen as Ninth President of Carnegie Mellon University

Submitted by Amit Acharya on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 16:01

mechanician

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/society/2013/winter/carnegie-mellon-selects…

Michael Ortiz and David Hibbitt are elected to the US National Academy of Engineering

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:45

mechanician

Today, February 7th, the NAE is announcing the election of 69 new members and 11 new foreign associates. The public announcement will be issued at 10:00 a.m. (EST) and will be posted on the NAE website.

Congratulations to Michael Ortiz and David Hibbitt!

PhD positions available in MSE department at Missouri S&T

Submitted by Caizhi Zhou on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 03:36

job

Two openings are available for PhD candidates in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri S&T. Students with background in metallic materials, mechanics of materials or solid mechanics are welcome to apply.

More information about application and our research group can be found at following links:

http://mse.mst.edu/prospectivegraduatestudents/gradinfo/

https://sites.google.com/site/ddrgmst/

NNIN/C Computational Cluster at U-M open to researchers

Submitted by Parameshwaran … on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 01:14

The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network’s computational project (NNIN/C) is a multi-university initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of NNIN, to establish a user accessible national computing resource for nanotechnology. This network is open to the academic and industrial research community and provides hardware resources and simulation tools dedicated to nanoscience
research.

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