There are openings for two fully funded graduate M.A.Sc student research assistantships in my new group at Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Interested students with strong academic background and interest in theory and experiments in the areas of dynamics and vibrations, applied (solid) mechanics of materials are encouraged to contact me at srikanthubc [at] gmail.com (srikanthubc[at]gmail[dot]com) Familiarity with computational packages ANSYS, ABAQUS, MATLAB is desirable. The succesful candidates will join as M.A.Sc students first, and then complete a PhD. Details about recent research projects are available at http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~skpa2 . See http://www.mech.ubc.ca/prospectivestudents.html for more details about UBC and Vancouver. Succesfull applicants must start no later than September 09. Ensure that your TOEFL/IELTS scores meet UBC requirements.