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Fundamentals of Simpleware Training, Reading, UK, Feb 6th

Submitted by Simpleware on

This one-day intensive training course intends to give new and existing users sufficient knowledge of the basic functionality of Simpleware software for converting 3D image data (MRI, CT...) into mdoels for CAD, CAE, and 3D Prrinting applications. It will allow you to develop workflows based your areas of research and future projects.

Learn more about this training day.

Reminder of the Upcoming Deadline for Abstract Submission to the EMI 2018 Conference at M.I.T.

Submitted by Amar A. Chaker on

 

The deadline for submission of abstracts for presentation at the EMI 2018 conference at M.I.T. is January 31.  For the list of accepted mini-symposia, visit: Mini-symposia. To submit an abstract, visit https://www.openconf.org/emi2018/author/submit.php.

 

NSF Travel Grants for Junior Faculty and Post-Doctoral Fellows to attend the EMI 2018 Conference at M.I.T.

Submitted by Amar A. Chaker on

 

In an effort to increase the participation of women and underrepresented groups in the EMI 2018 conference, the National Science Foundation will provide a number of travel assistantships to postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty members from those groups.

Eligibility

Material Testing in High and Low Temperatures

Submitted by Deniz Yalcin on

High or low temperature testing is made feasible by adding an environmental chamber to a universal testing machine (UTM). Environmental chambers come with their own temperature controller and, depending on the system’s compatibility, the temperature settings and recordings may be controlled with the UTM’s controller or software.

Tossing your Smartphone

Submitted by oliver oreilly on

If you are teaching a course on vehicle dynamics, navigation, robotics, or rotations you might be interested in exploiting the fact that your students' smartphones are equipped with inertial navigation units (IMUs). Daniel Kawano and Prithvi Akella have harnessed the data from the IMU using the Matlab mobile app and used this data to determine the motion of a smart phone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2ZJVSdVT5o

Open positions at UNFoLD in 2018 at EPFL (Switzerland)

Submitted by Pedro Reis on

Open positions at UNFoLD in 2018, the group of Professor Karen Mulleners at EPFL (Switzerland):

The unsteady flow diagnostics laboratory (UNFoLD) at the Swiss federal institute of technology of Lausanne (EPFL) invites applications by highly motivated candidates for doctoral and post-doctoral positions in the field of unsteady aerodynamics

Submit your abstracts to the International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials

Submitted by Sophie Hayward on

You are invited to submit your research to the twelfth International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials, which will be held in scenic Cape Cod at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Hyannis, Massachusetts from the 16-21 September 2018. It will bring together delegates from around the world to discuss how to characterize, predict, and analyze the fatigue damage of structural materials.