With funding from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant Program, targeting university faculty engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics that are at the beginning of their academic careers. Applicants must hold a tenure‐track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor at a US university on October 1, 2021, and must not be more than 5 years beyond receipt of their doctoral degree at the time the award is made

We are happy to announce the 2021 SES Meeting to be held in October. This year’s SES Meeting is an exciting departure from conventional virtual conferences. It will be organized as a Virtual Month (https://socengsci.org/ses-virtual-month/) spread over five days (October 1, 5, 15, 19, and 29). Each day will be a theme, which includes a fishbowl event, presentation, and poster session. A fishbowl is similar to a panel discussion, but with more interaction and informality.

A fully funded PhD position in close collaboration with the manufacturing industry is immediately available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at École de Technologie Saupérieure, Montréal, Canada.  
 
The selected candidate is required to:
- have B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering – Solid Mechanics,
- be talented, highly motivated, responsible, organized, and creative,
- have a strong background in Finite Element Method (FEM),
- have solid knowledge about deformation (stress-strain) analysis,

Dear Colleagues,

We wanted to alert you for the call for nominations of the awards of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which are due on September 15th, 2021.

EML Webinar (Season 2) on 16 July 2021 will be given by Dae-Hyeong Kim on Unconventional Bioelectronoics for Heart and Brain Diseases. Host: John A. Rogers, Northwestern University

Time: 9:30 am Boston, 2:30 pm London, 9:30 pm Beijing on 14 July 2021

Zoom Link: https://ter.ps/EMLWebinarS2

Live streaming on YouTube: https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

We review some recent approaches to modeling failure and fracture of soft materials. By failure we mean the onset of damage via material instability. By fracture we mean further localization of damage into cracks with their subsequent propagation.

Computational Design of Compliant Mechanisms

Jessica McWilliams (jmcw [at] seas.upenn.edu), Wei-Hsi Chen (weicc [at] seas.upenn.edu), Cynthia Sung (crsung [at] seas.upenn.edu)

General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, USA

There is a PhD opening in the Mechanics of Soft Materials Lab (https://www.msm.seas.ucla.edu/) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. The opening is to be filled in 2021 fall, 2022 winter or 2022 fall quarter. The successful candidate is expected to work on modeling, simulations, and experiments of soft materials.

Dear Members of the Mechanics and Materials Communities,

You may have known about the efforts of the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program of the National Science Foundation on revitalizing the practice of verification and validation (V&V) of computational models as a rigorous and indispensable step in the scientific investigative process.

Professor Yonggang Huang from Northwestern University is elected as an Honorary Member (2021) of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).  Each year ASME elects no more than 5 honorary members.  Since 2000 the mechanicians elected to the honorary members include: 

• Alan Needleman (2018);
• Romesh Batra (2015);
• Pol Spanos (2014);
• Ted Belytschko (2013);
• Zdenek Bazant (2012);
• JN Reddy (2011);
• Sia Nemat-Nasser (2005);
• Tinsley Oden (2004);
• Jan Achenbach (2002).