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Faculty Positions in Mechanical Engineering at University of Rhode Island

Submitted by Jun Li on

The Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering invites applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding individuals with demonstrated expertise or research potential in Advanced Solid Mechanics applied to Extreme Environments. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, loading of materials as a result of in-air or underwater blast or explosion, implosion of structures, impact mechanics, dynamic response of materials under extreme temperatures or pressures, saline or maritime conditions, and dynamic fracture fragmentation. Applicants are expected to have either a strong experimental background, or be expert in the computational modeling of solids under extreme loading conditions.

SES 2019 - Call for Abstracts - due April 30, 2019

Submitted by Markus J. Buehler on

Submit your abstract for the 2019 Society of Engineering Science meeting on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), October 13-15, 2019, deadline April 30, 2019 Information about tracks and symposia: https://ses2019.wustl.edu/track-symposia/ 

Submit your abstract: https://ses2019.wustl.edu/track-symposia/abstracts/ 

2019 ASME Congress invitation-Dynamic failure of materials and structures

Submitted by L. Roy Xu on


interfacial crack initiated from a polymer notch (click here to view this YouTube video from our experiment),     read more below to submit your abstracts

Prof. Jun Xu, Dr. Scott Grutzik, and I organize one topic on “Dynamic failure of materials and structures” for 2019 ASME Congress. We invite you, your colleagues and group members to submit short abstracts before ASME’s deadline of Feb 25, 2019. More details below: 

Highly paid PhD positions

Submitted by Atul Bhaskar on

Regarding the post:

http://imechanica.org/node/22666

Here are some clarifications:

(1) Applicants do not need to have English Language Proficiency test results at the time of applying. However, they need to have this before they could start a PhD. 

(2) Salary range is approx £31k to £35k per annum, which is over double that of a normal PhD studentship in the UK.

(3) Deadline 01 October, 2018.

CMMM 2019: The 2nd International Conference on Modeling in Mechanics and Materials

Submitted by Adesola S. Ademiloye on

CMMM2019, 29 - March 2019, Suzhou, China

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Conference Chair (Prof. K.M. Liew), I am very pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Modeling in Mechanics and Materials will be held from 29 - 31 March 2019 in Suzhou, China.

Reminder: 2018 Midwest Mechanics Workshop registration

Submitted by jingguo2011 on

Dear Colleagues,

This is a gentle reminder that the 2018 Midwest Mechanics Workshop will take place at IIT, Chicago on Thursday, August 9.  The deadline for registration is July 26, so we will have time to figure out the logistics. Note that registration is free for this one-day workshop. Please see:

https://sites.google.com/iit.edu/midmechmat-2018/home