The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) at Washington State University invites applications from outstanding candidates for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the area of Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and/or Machine-learning.
HOW TO APPLY: Applications should include a cover letter describing relevant experience and interest in the position; curriculum vitae; statements of research interests and teaching philosophy; and the names of five references with titles, addresses, business telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. References will not be contacted without consent from applicants.
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During their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.
Current master’s students and recent MA/MS/MPP/MFA grads, as well as PhD students, are eligible to apply for Fulbright grants in early autumn 2021. (US Citizenship is required.) The UMD application process will start this spring.
You can get a head start here to learn about Fulbright international research opportunities, to gain access to our ELMS resource site for Fulbright applicants, and to receive notice about our winter Fulbright info sessions.
Questions about the program should be directed to the UMD National Scholarships Office (fulbright@umd.edu).
Abstract: The vapor compression cycle (VCC) has been developed and optimized over a century to provide cooling in buildings (residential and commercial) and vehicles. However, its usage has resulted in unpredicted environmental damage such as depleting the ozone layer and promoting global warming when the refrigerant fluid leaks into the atmosphere. Because of this, it is important to develop a superior technological alternative without the environmental costs. One way to tackle this problem is to develop heat pumping cycles using solid-state refrigerants: a solid is incapable of leaking into the atmosphere. Yet, a solid-refrigerant cannot flow to deliver cooling the same way a refrigerant-fluid does. This required a system conceptual redesign, which started with near-room temperature cooling with magnetocaloric materials in 1976 and elastocaloric materials in 2012.
The ability of the cooling system to pump heat across a large temperature span is called the “temperature lift”. The amount of heat the system can absorb while maintaining that temperature lift is called the “cooling capacity”. An effective way to develop these technical capabilities is first to achieve a large temperature lift and second to increase cooling capacity to match the requirements.
In his work four different system configurations were studied with the following objectives: maximizing the temperature lift of the system and measuring the cooling capacity. During the process, new challenges were identified and addressed. The first configuration was based on the thermal-wave heat recovery strategy, while the other three were a 1-stage, 2-stage and reciprocating variants of the active regeneration cycle.
From the studied configurations the thermal-wave-based cycle achieved a low temperature lift of 8K, at large average strain of 4.5%, and the largest cooling capacity of 120W. Active regeneration-based cycles achieved the largest temperature lift of 21.3K, at a low average strain of 3.5%, but a low cooling capacity of between 16 and 25W. This dissertation shows there is a fundamental limitation in active regeneration cycles applied to single composition elastocaloric materials that limits the maximum applicable average strain, which in turn affects the cooling capacity. Different alternatives to address this issue, as well as suggestions to improve the overall thermal and structural performance of the system are reviewed.
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering invites scholars currently underrepresented in engineering fields who are nearing completion of their doctorates or who are in post-doctoral positions to apply for Tandon Faculty First LookFellowships.
Fellows will have the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research, engage with NYU faculty from a range of engineering disciplines, and participate in workshops designed to help them advance their careers.
The Tandon Faculty First Look program will be held via Zoom on Friday, March 12, 2021, 10 AM – 4:30 PM.
Eligibility
Eligible participants include doctoral degree candidates and post-doctoral fellows working in fields represented by NYU Tandon’s faculty, departments, and research centers. Women and applicants of African-American, Latinx, American Indian, or Alaskan Native descent, and people with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Interested candidates will submit the following (as individual documents) when the application process is open:
Personal Statement: to include career aspirations, your contribution to diversity and inclusion in the Academy, anticipated dissertation completion date, and why participating in NYU Tandon’s Faculty First Look will help you achieve your goals. Maximum 750-word count
Dissertation Abstract: maximum 250-word count
Curriculum Vitae
Letter of Recommendation from dissertation advisor, verifying anticipated dissertation date
Supplemental Form
Application deadline is December 15, 2020. Please submit materials electronically through Interfolio.
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student, Harnoor Singh Sachar, has been selected as a finalist for the Frank J. Padden, Jr. Award sponsored by the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Akron. As a finalist, Sachar will present his research in the 2021 Padden Award Symposium organized by the Division of Polymer Physics of the American Physical Society. Selection in this global competition demonstrates “Excellence in Polymer Physics Research” by a graduate student, and typically only five students are named finalists each year.
Sachar works with Associate Professor Siddhartha Das in the Soft Matter, Interfaces, and Energy Laboratory (SMIEL). He joined Das’s research group as an M.S. student fall of 2017 and transitioned to the Ph.D. program fall of 2018.
His Ph.D. thesis focuses on “Atomistic and theoretical description of liquid flows in polyelectrolyte-brush-grafted nanochannels.”
Polyelectrolyte (PE) molecules that are grafted to a surface in close proximity to each other form a brush-like structure—similar to the bristles of a toothbrush. Das and Sachar have performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to probe the microstructure of PE brushes in an unprecedented atomistic fashion. From there, they are expanding on this work by investigating the response of hydrophilic PE brushes to changes in temperature, and their results indicate that the “water-in-salt” like behavior of the PE brush-counterion-water system is amplified at higher temperatures.
This research could be useful for the future development of new polymer-based “water-in-salt” electrolytes for battery applications.
Sachar is currently utilizing MD simulations to quantify the weakening of hydrogen bond network formed by water molecules inside the water-swollen PE brushes, and the research findings of this work will be presented at the Padden Award Symposium in March 2021.
Sachar has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles in journals such as Soft Matter, Applied Physics Letters, Matter, and Physics of Fluids. In addition, Sachar has been recognized for his academic and research work with awards such as the UMD Graduate School Outstanding Research Assistant Award, the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, Philadelphia Section Scholarship and the Clark School of Engineering Future Faculty Fellowship.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut has two ongoing searches for multiple tenure track/tenured faculty positions in:
Advanced Digital Manufacturing, with a focus that includes advanced manufacturing systems and IoT, intelligent automation and controls, physics informed data science in advanced manufacturing, computational fabrication, advanced composites manufacturing, and computational design of products and processes;
Thermal-Fluid Sciences in areas including but not limited to heat and mass transfer including energy systems and processes, materials processing, reacting systems; computational fluid dynamics including fluid-structure interactions, turbulence and hypersonic flows; micro- and nano-fluidics including biological applications, soft matter mechanics and complex fluids.
Click the hyperlinks above to learn more about the positions. Candidates with a strong background in Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be considered for all ranks and in all Mechanical Engineering related fields.
Georgia Southern University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering invites applications for multiple tenure track positions of Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering—particularly with emphasis in Energy Science, Mechatronics, and Engineering Sciences.
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah (mech.utah.edu) invites applications for two tenure-track positions and one career-line lecturer position at the Assistant, Associate, or Professor rank. The University of Utah is a tier 1 research institution that is home to more than 30,000 students, world-class faculty and researchers, a medical campus, and many start-up companies. The Department of Mechanical Engineering currently has 38 tenure-line faculty members, over 1,000 undergraduate and 240 graduate students (145 Ph.D. students), and continues on a steep growth trajectory. Funded by the State of Utah’s Engineering Initiative, the Department expects to hire up to nine additional faculty members over the next three years.
