PhD position in the area of mechanical design of compliant robots
Department of Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences - RBCS (http://www.iit.it/en/rbcs/)
Italian Institute of Technology - IIT, Genoa
Application deadline: Sept. 24th 2010
ph.d.
Career after the Ph.D.
Hi,
I'm an Engineer and a Ph.D. student in Applied Maths, working in the field of Nonlinear Finite Elements for Elasticity. I often think about my future career since, by now, I have a strong experience with coding FE in C++/Matlab/Mathematica, but no clue whatsoever about commercial black-box softwares for FEA. I'm worried about this, since most of the job vacancies from the industry (I'm not interested in pursuing the Academic career) seem to require only experience with a specific software and application, and not to directly code FE.
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