Tsien Hsue-Shen, an expert of mechanics, the “King of Rocketry” of China, lived in US for twenty years long. Iris Chang (by a book in 1995) and Judith R. Goodstein (by a report of a conversation with Lee Alvin DuBridge in 2003) gave accounts of Tsien’s biography.
The ICE's journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics is planning a themed issue on Direct Methods. If you would like to learn more, please follow the link below:
http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/upload/Direct_Methods_CFP.pdf
Dear everyone!
The second issue in 2014 (Volume 30, Issue 2) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is now online.
Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston (UH), Cullen College of Engineering seeks a highly motivated and creative person for a faculty position to build a world-class research program on semiconductor device manufacturing and mechanics with emphasis on energy applications. Flexible electronics manufacturing is another area of interest. The University of Houston has recently made a significant investment to establish a 74-acre Energy Research Park (ERP) and has now established a 13,000 sq.ft. state-of-the-art Energy Devices Fabrication Laboratory in the Park.
Seven finalists have been identified for the 2014 Melosh Competition to be held Friday, April 25, at Duke University. The finalists and their current institutions are:
Amin Aghaei, Carnegie Mellon University
Sourish Chakravarty, SUNY Buffalo
Gina El Jannoun, MINES ParisTech
Mhadi Moghadam, UCSD
Phani Motamarri, University of Michigan
Nathan Roberts, University of Texas
Timothy Truster, University of Tennessee
Please join me in congratulating the finalists!!!
Institution: POLITECNICO di MILANO – Italy
Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Valter Carvelli
Funding Availability:
FP7-Marie Curie-ITN Endure
Deadline application: Aprili 29th, 2014
One
Ph.D. position
(Early-Stage Researcher) of 36 months, in the framework of EU Marie
Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN Endure (see http://www.endure-itn.eu)
The US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) publishes periodic Reports on Recent Trends in Mechanics. An archive of recent reports can be found at the Committee’s website. The USNCTAM has reorganized the process for generating such reports; a SubCommittee (K. Ravi‐Chandar, Chair (ravi [at] utexas.edu), G.
