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Thesis Defense: Sriram Jayanthi

Title: Underfill Selection to Improve Solder Joint Reliability For Down Hole Drilling Applications

Author: Sriram Jayanthi

Date/Time: November 19, 2020 10:00am-12:00pm

Examining Committee:

  • Professor Patrick McCluskey, Chair
  • Professor Abhijit Dasgupta
  • Dr. Michael Azarian

Abstract: Underfill materials were originally developed to improve the solder joint reliability of the BGA packages under the thermal cycling when they are experiencing stresses due to the CTE mismatches between the board and the component. Although it is stated that the underfills will improve the shock reliability of the solder joints under the harsh environment for automobiles and military applications (-40 to 125oC). It has been found in the thermal cycling conditions the underfills will reduce the life of the solder balls. All the studies that had been performed were mostly below 150oC. There are no certain guidelines for selecting the underfills with the properties of the materials.  The main aim of this research is to create a guideline for selecting the underfills for high-temperature applications (above 150oC) for different BGA packages. In the first section, initial characterization and benchmarking of the underfills that are available in the industry was performed. In the second section, all the selected underfills were subjected to a harsh environment to find failure modes and mechanisms. With the help of experimentation and FEA that was done, guidelines were created for selecting the underfills for different BGA packages. This will be helpful to oil & gas and military applications.

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Faculty Opening – Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, in Quantum Information Science and Technology

University of Washington: Academic Personnel: College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering

Location: Seattle, WA

Open Date: Oct 20, 2020

Deadline: Dec 1, 2020 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description: The Mechanical Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, invites outstanding faculty candidates to apply for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. This position is on a 9-month service period with an anticipated start date of September 16, 2021.

This position will perform research in quantum information science and technology (QIST) in one of the following areas of interest: quantum control, machine learning to optimize QIST systems, quantum machine learning, and quantum mechanical/acoustic systems.

UW is also committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the university.      

The successful applicant will be expected to provide innovative, high-quality teaching; to develop a vigorous, externally-funded research program; and to contribute to the goals and missions of the department, college, and university. Candidates will also be expected to present how they will contribute to an innovative undergraduate curriculum, and develop graduate courses in their areas of expertise.

Seattle is a vibrant international city, known for its cultural diversity, robust economy, and  natural beauty. The University of Washington is the top U.S. public institution for federal research funding.  UW faculty are committed to outstanding research, excellent teaching, and exemplary service. The Mechanical Engineering department’s research and teaching portfolio covers all aspects of the broad field of mechanical engineering, including interdisciplinary work in engineering in medicine, robotics and controls, energy and the environment, fluid dynamics, data science and machine learning, materials, and advanced manufacturing. The department currently has 39 full-time faculty, 409 undergraduates, 261 masters students, 126 PhD students and 17 postdoctoral researchers, and continues to grow.  More information about the ME department is available at http://www.me.washington.edu.

The University of Washington and the College of Engineering promote diversity and inclusivity among our students, faculty, staff, and public.  These positions are contingent on budgetary approval.

Qualifications

  • Applicants must have a PhD or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline by the date of appointment. 
  • Candidates with a strong background in all areas of quantum information science and technology (QIST) are particularly encouraged to apply
  • Positive factors for consideration include, but are not limited to: potential to conduct world-class research and to innovate in quantum-enabled technologies; ability to leverage the ME Department’s and the University’s competitive advantage in QIST to help launch multidisciplinary research efforts; potential to develop a high-impact research program with national and international recognition and impact; excellent communication skills; and research, teaching, and/or service that had prepared them to fulfill our commitment to inclusion and have given them the confidence to fully engage audiences in higher education from a wide spectrum of backgrounds.

Application Instructions
Applications should be submitted at: http://apply.interfolio.com/79554

Please provide pdf files for the following requested materials:

  1. Cover letter indicating interest and fit with the position.
  2. A current curriculum vitae. 
  3. Three letters of reference. 
  4. A research statement that includes your vision for research for the next 5 years and the potential for research collaboration and QIST impact.
  5. A statement of teaching and education interests, and/or philosophy that includes plans to effectively develop and deliver educational materials, attract and mentor graduate students, and engage the broader community.
  6. A statement of diversity/equity/inclusion reflecting how your lived experiences of issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion and your approach to research, education and/or service contribute to positive social change and are inclusive of individuals with different gender, class, race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, national and cultural boundaries, national origin, worldview, ability, and other identities.
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Faculty Opening – Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, in Biomedical Imaging and Analysis

University of Washington: Academic Personnel: College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering

Location: Seattle, WA

Open Date: Oct 6, 2020

Description: The Mechanical Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, invites outstanding faculty candidates to apply for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. This position is on a 9-month service period with an anticipated start date of September 16, 2021.

Candidates are being targeted for a cluster of hires that will occur over the next few years within the College of Engineering in the area of high-throughput biomedical imaging and big-data analysis.  New hires will join a strong existing network of faculty who are pioneering this field within the College of Engineering, School of Medicine, and College of Arts and Sciences.  For this particular hire within the cluster, the primary appointment and teaching responsibilities will be in mechanical engineering, but adjunct/affiliate appointments in other relevant departments/institutions will be encouraged.  UW has a culture of inter-departmental and cross-college collaborations, close relationships with regional institutes, clinics, and industry partners.  UW is also committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the university.       

The ME department seeks to build on its existing strengths in areas that include (but are not limited to): high-resolution imaging instrumentation, sample/patient-preparation technologies, advanced visualization techniques, machine learning for big-data image analysis, and imaging-based interventions (including robotics and automation).  Ideal candidates should be able to leverage the competitive advantages in healthcare, biotechnology, and data sciences that exist within the University of Washington and the surrounding region, including (but not limited to): UW Medicine, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the VA Puget Sound health care system, the Allen Institutes, and numerous companies leading the big-data revolution. Our ultimate goal is to leverage our collective expertise to address critical challenges in clinical care, health equity, and social transformation.       

Successful candidates will be expected to develop a high-impact federally funded research program of international repute, to contribute to an innovative undergraduate curriculum, to develop graduate courses in their areas of expertise, and to contribute to efforts in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the campus climate for students, faculty, and staff.  Our department faculty are also expected to serve as mentors for relevant capstone design projects, such as through our Engineering Innovation in Health (EIH) biodesign program.

The Mechanical Engineering department’s research and teaching portfolio covers all aspects of the broad field of mechanical engineering, including interdisciplinary programs in healthcare, robotics and controls, materials, advanced manufacturing, and alternative energy. The department is growing and currently consists of 39 full-time faculty, 409 undergraduates, 261 master students, 126 PhD students and 17 postdoctoral scholars.  More information about the ME department is available at http://www.me.washington.edu.

Qualifications
Applicants must have a PhD (or other foreign equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering, or a discipline that is related to this targeted search, by the date of appointment

Application Instructions
Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a brief research statement (maximum 3 pages), teaching statement (1 page), and diversity statement (1 page).   Names and contact information should be provided for at least three references. Please submit all applications at:

http://www.engr.washington.edu/facsearch/apply.phtml?xxxxxx

Review of applications will begin immediately and full consideration will be given to applications received by December 15, 2020. The process remains open until the position is filled.

Guidance for research, teaching, and diversity statements (junior faculty candidates)
The research, teaching, and diversity statements can be organized in a variety of ways, but should, at a minimum, communicate the following information:

  • The broad vision and long-term impact that the applicant seeks to have
  • Examples of prior activities and accomplishments, if any, that showcase the ability of the applicant to achieve their vision
  • Immediate plans and specific strategies for addressing that vision.

Candidates are encouraged to be creative with how they structure their statements, and to provide any additional information that they feel is relevant (within the page constraints).  For example, figures and references are not necessary, but can be helpful in some cases, as well as mentioning other faculty and programs associated with the UW that can be synergistic with the applicant’s proposed programs.

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Tale of Two Pandemics: Illuminating Structural Racism and COVID

Powered by Research Commons at University Libraries. Starting in 2015, the Interdisciplinary Dialogues have addressed such important issues as income inequality, immigration, social media and elections, and sex and gender in academia. Please note that all Fall 2020 events will be held virtually via Zoom. Registrants will receive an event link in their confirmation email.

As the United States faces a global COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over 200,000 and confronts longtime and systemic racism and violence against Black Americans, researchers have highlighted a clear intersection between structural racism and high risk situations for contracting COVID. By drawing from research expertise, this panel explores the concurrent pandemics of racism and COVID, causes of inequity, and ways in which our community can address them.  

Panelists include:

Dr. Rashawn Ray, Professor of Sociology, Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR)
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Dr. Jennifer Roberts, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, Director of Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory
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Amelia Jamison, MAA, MPH, Faculty Research Affiliate at the Maryland Center for Health Equity, PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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John P. Salerno, MPH, PhD Candidate, Behavioral and Community Health, Investigator at the University of Maryland Prevention Research Center (UMD-PRC)
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Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Faculty/Staff   General Public   Graduate Students   Undergraduate Students  

Registration is required. There are 38 seats available.

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Virtual Technical Meeting: Exploring Data Requirements for Risk and Reliability Analysis in Hydrogen Systems

Presenters: Camila Correa Jullian & Katrina Groth

Host: University of Maryland

Date/Time: November 17, 2020. 11:00AM EDT

Risk and reliability analysis are critical to the development of safe
systems, designing maintenance strategies, and creating codes and
standards. We are exploring the suitability of modern tools for risk
assessment, such as QRA (Quantitative Risk Assessment), and reliability
analysis, such as PHM (Prognosis and Health Management), in hydrogen
systems. Both have the potential to close knowledge gaps from different
perspectives and enable H2 infrastructure deployment.
This technical meeting will address common data requirements for QRA
and PHM in hydrogen systems, with a focus on identifying data sources
with potential to enable research to close knowledge gaps.

Topical Discussion Points:

  • QRA data needs: Component failure and event frequency data on hydrogen systems and components.
  • PHM data needs: Condition-monitoring data-based methods to explore PHM-informed risk-mitigation measures.
  • Engage with researchers with hydrogen stakeholders for collaboration and data sharing.

To confirm attendance: https://bit.ly/32jnszj

For more info, please contact Kevin Hartmann Kevin.Hartmann2@nrel.gov orKatrina Groth
kgroth@umd.edu

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Dissertation Defense – Guanjin Wang

Title: Physics-Based and Data-Driven Modeling of Hybrid Robot Movement on Soft Terrain

Author: Guanjin Wang

Advisory Committee:

  • Professor Balakumar Balachandran, Chair & Advisor
  • Associate Professor Amir Riaz (Co-Advisor)
  • Professor Teng Li
  • Professor Amr Baz
  • Professor Peter Chung
  • Professor Derek Richardson (Dean’s Representative)

Date & Time: November 13, 2020 2pm-4pm

Abstract: Navigating the unmapped environment is one of the ten biggest challenges facing the robotics community. A vision-based navigation system embedded in the mobile robot can only help to negotiate obstacles, which are well described by geometrical features, like sharp-edged stones and rocks.  Other aspects like sand, snow, and challenging terrains, are challenges for motions that robots cannot avoid during missions. Thus, designing and selecting effective gaits to navigate over terrains that may not be well describable by geometry is crucial for robot exploration. Wheeled robots can move fast on flat surfaces but suffer from loss of traction and immobility on soft ground. However, legged machines have superior mobility over wheeled locomotion when they are in motion over flowable ground or a terrain with obstacles but can only move at relatively low speeds on flat surfaces. A question is: If legged and wheeled locomotion are combined, can the resulting hybrid leg-wheel locomotion enable fast movement in any terrain condition?

Investigations into vehicle terrain interaction fall in the area of terramechanics. Traditional terra-mechanics theory can help capture large wheel vehicle interaction with the ground. However, legged or hybrid locomotion on a granular substrate is difficult to investigate by using classical empirical terra-mechanics theory due to sharp-edge contact. Recent studies show the continuum simulation can serve as an accurate tool for simulating dynamic interactions with granular material at laboratory and field scales. Therefore, to investigate the rich physics during dynamic interactions between the robot and the granular terrain, a computational framework based on the Smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been developed and validated by using experimental results for single robot appendage interaction with the granular system. This framework has been extended and coupled with a multi-body simulator to model different robot configurations. Encouraging agreement is found amongst the numerical, theoretical, and experimental results, for a wide range of robot leg configurations, such as curvature and shape. The sensitive dependence of robot performance on different gaits has been investigated by parametric space exploration.

The above mentioned physics-based simulation can serve as a high-fidelity tool to uncover clues about the underlying mechanism of dynamic interactions between robots and soft terrain. However, real-time navigation in a challenging terrain requires fast prediction of the dynamic response of the robot, which is useful for terrain identification and robot gait adaption. Therefore, a data-driven modeling framework has also been developed for the fast estimation of the slippage and sinkage of robots. The data-driven model leverages the high-quality data generated from the offline physics-based simulation for the training of a deep neural network founded on long short-term memory (LSTM) cells. The results are expected to form a good basis for online robot navigation and exploration in unknown and complex terrains.

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Thesis Defense: Marcelo Arispe-Guzman

Title: Reduction of Mixture Property Variation Through Control on Initial Mixing Dynamics

Author: Marcelo Arispe-Guzman

Date/Time: November 20, 2020 9:00am-11:00am

Examining Committee:
Professor David Bigio, Chair
Professor Balakumar Balachandran
Professor Peter Chung
Professor Ryan Sochol

Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5898885184

Abstract: Blend homogenization of a liquid-solid mixtures is achieved through mixer agitation which disperses the liquids and breaks up the agglomerates. Creating energetic or pharmaceutical blends requires a very low degree of mixture variation in the final product. Initial solid-liquid feeding protocols into the mixer greatly affect the ability to achieve low variation at minimal energy input. Experiments in a vertically oscillating mixer using dyed silicon oil and glass beads examined the effect of feed protocols, while varying acceleration and the number of cycles. A Central Composite Design (CCD) DOE revealed that the percent homogeneity and coefficient of variation measures of mixing are linearly dependent on acceleration and number of cycles. Experimental observations lead us to redefine the model for breakup of wet agglomerates. This study offers a starting point to developing feed protocols to improve the efficiency of oscillating mixers, such as the resonant acoustic mixer (RAM), for liquid-solid mixing.

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Faculty Positions at Hongik University in Korea

Hongik University in Korea has openings for faculty positions for the Spring Semester starting from March 1, 2021. As one of the major private universities in Korea, Hongik University strives to be a link between academia and industry, and to provide service for the benefit of wider society. A list of open positions has been attached to this posting

For detailed application information, please visit: http://applicant.hongik.ac.kr and click “Foreign applicant”

Online application Deadline: November 9, 2020 

All the required documents should be submitted via E-mail by November 18, 2020

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Imminent Events – Institute for System Research

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING EVENTS WILL BE HOSTED VIRTUALLY, AND THAT MANY OF THEM REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2020

4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.  Startup Guide for Faculty/Researchers at UMD

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2020

8:30 A.M.-10:00 A.M.  Winning SBIR/STTR Proposal Strategies

10:30 A.M.-12:00 P.M.  The Future of Nuclear Energy

12:30 P.M.-1:30 P.M.  HCIL Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, Ben Shneiderman, “Human-Centered AI: 15 Recommendations”

5:00 P.M.  Big 10+ Webinar Series: Mechanical Engineering Graduate School Seminar Series (MEGS3)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2020

10:45 A.M.  CDS Invited Lecture: Philip Paré, “Epidemics Spreading on Networks”

1:00 P.M.  MSE Seminar Series: Megatrends for Materials Science and Engineering for the 21st Century

2:00 P.M.  Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar: Socially Assistive Robotics Right Now

2:00 P.M.-2:45 P.M.  Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Dennis Andrucyk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

3:00 P.M.  PhD Dissertation Defense: Zitan Chen

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020

11:00 A.M.  ChBE Seminar: Tuning Collective Molecular Assembly to Influence Ion Transport and Electron Transfer

1:00 P.M.-2:00 A.M.  Startup Funding for UMD Faculty and Graduate Students

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2020

12:00 P.M.-1:30 P.M.  CCSP Seminar: Mokshay Madiman, Rényi information inequalities and their mathematical ramifications

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020

1:00 P.M.  MSE Seminar: Using Tension and Curvature to Manipulate Patterning in Phospholipid Lamellae

2:00 P.M.  Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar: Robust Perception for Robots

3:30 P.M.-4:30 P.M.  Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Reza Ghanadan, Senior Manager, Google Cloud AI

3:30 P.M.-4:30 P.M.  IEEE Leadership Seminar: Rose Faghih, Assistant Professor, University of Houston

For a full listing of ISR events, visit the ISR website at:   https://isr.umd.edu/events/index.php

Please submit upcoming events by visiting the ISR website events page or by clicking the following link:  Submit an event to the ISR calendar.   

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Mechanical Engineering Faculty Position Opening

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City has tenure-track faculty position vacancies. The department seeks exceptional candidates from all areas of mechanical engineering with the following qualities:

  • A passion for teaching undergraduate students
  • An ability to teach broadly across the mechanical engineering curriculum
  • A potential for effective and innovative teaching
  • Interest in engaging undergraduate and Master’s students in research and scholarly activities

Responsibilities:
The  successful candidate will be dedicated to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students  in a rigorous project-oriented and supportive academic environment and engaging  undergraduate and master’s students in research and scholarly activities. The ideal candidate should contribute to Cooper Union’s strategic priority of educational innovation and  leading-edge pedagogies. The candidate is expected to collaborate with faculty and staff to  develop innovative curricular models, modern pedagogical paradigms, and evidence-based  assessment techniques. 

The candidate should be able and willing to teach broadly across the undergraduate  mechanical engineering curriculum. Exceptional candidates from all areas of expertise are  encouraged to apply. Additional consideration will be given to those capable of creating  opportunities for students at the intersection of mechanical engineering and other  disciplines. Candidates interested in contributing to our K-12 STEM outreach programs  and in engaging students in competitions or service-learning in our community are also  encouraged to apply. 

Application Details: https://cooper.edu/work/employment-opportunities/mechanical-engineering-tenure-track-faculty-position

An earned doctorate in mechanical engineering or a closely related discipline is required.  Interested and qualified candidates should submit the following in one searchable PDF  document with the candidate’s last name and first name as the file name: 

• A cover letter. To assist the search committee, all cover letters should address your interest in The Cooper Union and how you envision your teaching and research interests will contribute to the department and the institution. 

• A current curriculum vitae. 

• A statement about your teaching philosophy: describe principles, practices, or experi ences that inform the way you teach (typically 1-2 pages). 

• A statement about your research interests, including potential research projects for undergraduates (typically 1-2 pages). 

• A statement about diversity and inclusion: describe your interests, experiences, and future plans for promoting diversity and inclusion in engineering (typically 1-2 pages). 

• Contact information for at least three references. At least one reference should be able to specifically address teaching. 

Nominations should be sent to hr@cooper.edu and questions may be sent to Department  Chair Melody Baglione at melody.baglione@cooper.edu. Review of applications is  ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. The Cooper Union for the  Advancement of Science and Art is an AA/EOE employer. 

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Tenured-Track Faculty Position Opening – CSUN

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Faculty Hire Number: 21-03 

Effective Date of Appointment: August 23, 2021 (Contingent upon Provost’s approval and budget  considerations) 

Rank: Assistant Professor

Salary: Dependent upon qualifications 

Qualifications: Candidates must have received their Ph.D. from an accredited institution by the effective date of  employment. In addition to a broad background in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering, research  interests and experience in the area of solid mechanics are sought, with a specialization in advanced  composite materials. Those with expertise in architecture and hierarchical materials, or smart materials  and adaptive structures may also be considered. Candidates focusing on fabrication and experimental  characterization of advanced composites are particularly encouraged. 

Candidates should be able to teach the core content of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum at the  undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as possess the ability to develop and supervise hands-on  projects for the senior design culminating experience. In line with CSUN’s instructional approach,  candidates should develop proficiency with learning-centered and active learning strategies, and demonstrate a commitment to implementation of these in the curriculum. Additionally, candidates should demonstrate pursuit of  approaches which promote retention of students in traditionally underserved and underrepresented  groups. 

The ability to develop and conduct an effective multidisciplinary research program in one of the research  areas highlighted above should be evident. Candidates are expected to pursue external funding from  state, federal, and private entities, supervise student research at the undergraduate and graduate level,  and publish in reputable peer-reviewed journals. Applicants must demonstrate a commitment and ability  to teach, mentor and work with a diverse student population. Proficiency in both written and oral  communication in English is required. At time of appointment, the successful candidate, if not a U.S.  citizen, must have authorization from the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services to work in  the United States

Responsibilities:  
Teaching responsibilities include instruction in undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as  supervision of senior design projects. Active and effective participation in curriculum development,  assessment and accreditation, as well as other departmental, college and university service is expected.  Initiation and maintenance of creative scholarly activities as well as an externally funded research  program are required. This includes the supervision of student research, including thesis projects at the  Master’s level. Candidates are also expected to provide academic and professional advisement to  undergraduate and graduate students. The successful applicant will be held to the standards and  requirements of the college and the Mechanical Engineering department for recommending tenure and  promotion. 

Application Deadline: 
Screening of applications will begin November 20, 2020. Priority will be given to applicants who meet  the screening deadline; however, the position will remain open until filled. 

Applicants must submit a cover letter that specifically addresses the following: 1) how you would make  a unique contribution to the department; 2) your teaching experience and philosophy; 3) your plans for  establishing an independent research program at CSUN; 4) your experience working with a diverse  student population. Additionally, applications should include a curriculum vitae, a research statement, 

and a teaching statement. In later phases of the search process, applicants may be requested to provide  verification of terminal degrees, licenses and certificates, and at least three letters of reference from  professional associates.  

How to Apply: 
This institution is using Interfolio’s ByCommittee to conduct this search. Applicants for this position  receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of  recommendation, free of charge to: http://apply.interfolio.com/79746.  

Questions on the application process should be directed to Dr. Peter L. Bishay (peter.bishay@csun.edu).

General Information: 
In compliance with the Annual Security Report & Fire Safety Report of Campus Security Policy and  Campus Crime Statistics Act, California State University, Northridge has made crime-reporting  statistics available on-line here. Print copies are available by request from the Department of Police  Services, the Office for Faculty Affairs, and the Office of Equity and Diversity. 

The person holding this position may be considered a ‘mandated reporter’ under the California Child  Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU  Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment. 

A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any  candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background  check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current CSU  employees who apply for the position. CSUN is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color,  ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, genetic  information, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, and disability. Our nondiscrimination  policy is set forth in CSU Executive Order 1096. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for  applicants with disabilities who self-disclose by contacting the Department of Mechanical Engineering  at (818) 677-2187.

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Dissertation Defense: Jerald Armen

Title: INTERFACE OF IN-SITU ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND PHASE CHANGE LIQUID METALS TO OPTIMIZE HIGH THERMAL DENSITY PROBLEM IN SPACECRAFT AVIONICS STRUCTURES

Author: Jerald Armen

Date/Time: November 6, 2020 – 1:00pm-3:00pm

Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6589422509?pwd=em1PbXRVRTNvaldSVkNHejl0NFRFUT09

Examining Committee:

  • Professor Hugh Bruck, Chair
  • Professor Abhijit Dasgupta 
  • Professor David Bigio
  • Professor Ryan Sochol
  • Professor Kyu Yong Choi (Dean’s Representative)   

Abstract: With advances in micromachinery, the acceptance of disaggregation of sensors, and easy-to-use microcontroller platforms on satellites, the size of mission structures are getting dramatically smaller and faster, this results in greater localized heat generation, requiring more reliable thermal management systems. The emergence of advanced additive manufacturing (AM), such as selective laser sintering (SLS) and engineering materials, such as low-melting eutectic liquid metal (LM) alloys and synthetics ceramics offer new opportunities for thermal cooling systems. Therefore, there has been an opportunity for adapting in-situ AM to overcome limitations of traditional manufacturing in thermal application, where improvements can be achieved through reducing thermal contract resistance of multi-layer interfaces. In this regard, this work investigates adapting in-situ AM technologies to embed prefabricated components, such as ceramic tubes, inside of metals without parting surface, resulting in more intimate contact between the metal and ceramic. A focus was placed on using more ubiquitous powder bed AM technologies, where it was determined that the morphology of the prefabricated LM compatible ceramic tubes had to be optimized to prevent collision with the apparatus of powder bed based AM. Furthermore, to enhance the wettability of the ceramic tubes during laser fusion, the surfaces were electroplated, resulting in a 1.72X improvement in heat transfer compared to cold plates packaged by conventional assembly. Additionally, multiple AM technologies synergistically complement with cross platform tools such as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) to solve the corrosion problem in the use of low melting eutectic alloy in geometrically complex patterns as an active cooling system with no moving parts. The MHD pumping system was designed using FEA and CFD simulations to approximate Maxwell and Navier-Stokes equations, were then validated using experiments with model heat exchanger to determine the tradeoff in performance with conventional pumping systems. The MHD cooling prototype was shown to reach volumetric flow rates of up to 650 mm3/sec and generated flow pressure due to Lorentz forces of up to 230 Pa, resulting in heat transfer improvement relative to passive prototype of 1.054. 

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Doctoral Thesis Research in Marine Energy, Hydrokinetics with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education is currently accepting applications for the 2021-2022 Marine and Hydrokinetics (MHK) Graduate Student Research Program.

What will I be doing? You will get to advance your doctoral thesis utilizing the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at DOE laboratories, industry or other approved facility to accomplish your research goals, all while networking with top scientists in the field. You will conduct research at both your academic institution and at an external hosting facility conducting research in MHK.

Why should I apply? In addition to advancing your doctoral thesis research, you will 1) enhance your education and training in water power technologies fields, 2) increase your marketability in these disciplines, 3) gain access to top scientists and state-of-the-art equipment, and 4) gain insight into research and career opportunities through your internship experiences.

Where will I be located? You will identify the host facility where you want to conduct your research and a potential mentor currently conducting or directing research in an area of importance to the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), including, but not limited to, technologies for clean domestic power generation from hydropower, waves, and tides.

Application Deadline: December 4, 2020

Apply Today! https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/DOE-EERE-RPP-WPTO-2020-3001

The details:

You will receive a competitive stipend, an allowance to offset the costs of health insurance, reimbursement for education, research travel and materials up to $7,000, and limited tuition allowance. A relocation allowance of up to $3,000 may also be provided for eligible participants relocating to the hosting facility.

You must be a U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident and be enrolled as a full-time doctoral graduate student at a qualified program requiring a research thesis/dissertation at an accredited U.S. college or university with a cumulative graduate GPA of 3.00 or higher on a 4.00 scale.

Program Website: https://orise.orau.gov/mhk-research-program/.

Questions? Email DOE-RPP@orise.orau.gov.  Please list the reference code [DOE-EERE-RPP-WPTO-2020-3001] for this opportunity in the subject line of your email.

This research experience is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Water Power Technologies Office. This program is administered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities, for DOE.

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CALCE Elevator Pitch Contest

On November 19th, the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland, College Park, along with its student chapters – IPC, iMAPS, and SMTA are jointly hosting an online/virtual 5-minute elevator pitch contest as part of the Fall Technical Symposium 2020. 

The elevator pitch aims to describe the research/project’s need to be conducted, its background, objectives, scope, interim or final results, and benefits to the organization and broader society. The topics for the presentation are inclusive of any subjects relevant to the electronics industry. Some of the suggested topics areas follows:

  • Materials & Processing·    
  • Photonics
  • Packaging technology
  • Interconnects· 
  • Applied Reliability 
  • Emerging Technologies – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Assembly & Manufacturing Technology
  • Thermal or mechanical simulation & characterization 

The top three presenters will be awarded cash prizes of $300, $200, and $100 respectively. Also, the ten selected participants will receive appreciation gifts. 

Interested applicants should use the following link to learn more and submit an abstract for the event. Abstracts for the event are due on the 4th of November, and finalists will be announced on the 6th of November.

Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technical-fall-symposium-elevator-pitch-contest-tickets-126605491433

Abstract Submission Link: https://forms.gle/jnDCyouGM4UDJE6j9

For any event-related details, such as deadlines for submission, presentation topics along with the registration link can be found in the attached flyer.  

Other general inquiries, please contact:

1.     Rishabh Chaudhary ( rish5251@umd.edu )

2.     Suraj Ravimanalan ( surajr97@umd.edu )

3.     Beihan Zhao ( bzhao12@umd.edu )

4.     Diganta Das (diganta@umd.edu )

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ORISE Research Opportunities

The ORISE Research Participation Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is an educational and training program designed to provide college students, recent graduates, and university faculty opportunities to connect with the unique resources of the FDA. With the support of an assigned mentor, participants have authentic research experiences using equipment not found on most college campuses. These research experiences compliment the educational nature of the programs and make participants aware of potential STEM employment opportunities at the sponsoring agency. Participants will have access to unique research and training opportunities, top scientists and engineers, and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.

Health Communications and Education Outreach Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Small Business and Industry Assistance Research Internship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Quality Standards for Drug Quality Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Biostatistics Internship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Physicochemical Characterization of Breast Implants Internship
Office of the Commissioner | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Foodborne Genomics & Bioinformatics Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

VIEW ALL OF OUR CURRENT OPPORTUNITES

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Tenure-track Faculty Positions – University of Cincinnati

The Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering in the College of Engineering and  Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for multiple full-time  tenure-track faculty positions in the Mechanical Engineering Program and Materials Science  Engineering Program. (Requisition #54422).  

Candidates in a broad range of mechanical engineering will be considered, including but not  limited to, industry 4.0, advanced manufacturing, structural dynamics and acoustics, simulation  and applied mechanics, thermal-fluid science, bio-medical and nano-technology, and materials  science. Rank, tenure, salary and startup funding commensurate with credentials. 

The Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering currently has 44 faculty members and  an enrollment of about 1290 undergraduate and 400 graduate students. The Department  presently offers an ABET accredited B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.S., Master of  Engineering and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and M.S., Master of Engineering and  Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering. The Department has research focus areas in  Structural Dynamics, Advanced Manufacturing, Thermal-Fluids Science, Applied and 

Computational Mechanics, Nanotechnology and Materials Science & Engineering. 

For more information regarding the MME Department, please see the following link:  https://ceas.uc.edu/academics/departments/mechanical-materials-engineering.html 

The successful candidates will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate engineering  courses specific to their specialty areas (as noted above), develop externally funded research  programs, advise graduate and undergraduate students, publish research results in professional  journals, and participate in professional service activities such as editorial positions, student  career mentoring, advising of student organizations, serving on departmental, college and  university committees and performing outreach activities; etc. In addition, the successful  candidate will participate in curriculum and course development.  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: prior to effective date of appointment a PhD in Mechanical  Engineering or related field is required. 

Application Process: Interested candidates should create an Applicant Profile at  http://jobs.uc.edu (Requisition# 54422) and upload a current CV/Resume and cover letter  summarizing research and teaching interests. Under the ‘Additional Documents’ section,  interested candidates should also upload a statement of research plans, a statement of teaching  experience and philosophy, a diversity statement, as well as names and contact information for  at least three references. Further documentation, including letters of recommendation and  representative publications, may be separately requested by the search committee at a later  date.

Review of applications will continue until the positions are filled. 

The University of Cincinnati is a major research university in an urban and diverse community. The  University’s research portfolio includes a broad range of activities spanning physical, social and  life sciences, engineering, and medicine. These positions will provide an opportunity to form  collaborative relationships within the college, across the university, and with regional industry. 

The university boasts a student body of over 46,000 enrolled in over 370 programs of study and  is the region’s largest employer with over 15,000 faculty, staff and student workers. The University  of Cincinnati is ranked as one of America’s top 26 public research universities by the National  Science Foundation. U.S. News has ranked UC in the Top Tier of America’s Best Colleges. In  addition, Cooperative Education (co-op) had its founding at UC in 1906.  

The University of Cincinnati is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and military veterans are encouraged to apply. UC is an  ADVANCE institution, with an NSF Institutional Transformation award to increase the participation  and advancement of women in STEM academic careers, and provide support throughout all  phases of their career development. The University is committed to increasing the diversity of the  UC community. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply and to  identify their strengths or experiences in this regard. 

The University of Cincinnati is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer / M / F /  Veteran / Disabled.

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John Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory Recruiting

The Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering hopes that you can join us for  a 2-part Professional Development Series presented by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory so that they may learn more about you and you may learn more about JHUAPL and how to apply to our many openings. We know that career fairs and professional conferences were a bit different this year – our goal is to provide an opportunity for (virtual) face-to-face interactions and for you to know that your resume is being seen, with real-time feedback.

What: Professional Development Series sponsored by JHUAPL

  • Session 1: JHUAPL Information Session + Resume and Interview Skills Workshop (RSVP required)
  • Session 2 (2 days): One-on-one resume reviews with JHUAPL technical staff (RSVP required; sign up for 15-minute time slot)

When:

  • Session 1: October 29th, 4-5pm EST (RSVP Here)
  • Session 2a: November 4th, 9:30am-12:30pm EST (RSVP link given during Session 1)
  • Session 2b: November 6th, 2pm-5pm EST (RSVP link given during Session 1)

JHUAPL is actively hiring for Interns and New Graduates. Please see links to our opportunities below.

Internships:

Summer 2021 Internship Program 

New Graduates:

Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, AI, ML

Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

Materials Science, Healthcare Systems Eng. Bioengineering/Biology and Chemical Engineering/Chemistry

Mechanical Engineering & Aerospace Engineering

Systems Engineering, Applied/Engineering Physics, Optics & Engineering Science, Statistics and Applied Math

Recently Awarded PhDs or PostdocsBest,

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AcademicKeys: University jobs in Mechanical Engineering, and other related areas

This month’s issue of AcademicKeys’ e-Flier for Engineering features 69 faculty openings, 8 senior administrative positions, and 12 post-doc opportunities and links to hundreds more positions in mechanical engineering higher education.

             SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

NEW! – Dean – School of Engineering
American International University
School of Engineering
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Date Posted: Oct. 13, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147636&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Professor and Department Head, Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University – College Station
Aerospace Engineering
College Station, TX, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 12, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147572&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Department Head
South Dakota State University
Mechanical Engineering
Brookings, SD, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 1, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147056&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Chief Financial Officer (0212U) – CDSS
University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 2, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146075&o=95393&t=EN201024m-0e

Professor and Chair – Mechanical Engineering
Marshall University
College of Engineering and Computer Sciences
Huntington, WV, United States
Date Posted: Aug. 31, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146001&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Assoc. Vice Chancellor, Advancement Operations (0550U) – …
University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States
Date Posted: Aug. 14, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145518&o=95393&t=EN201024m-0e

Asst. Superintendent/Vice President of Instruction and Pl…
San Joaquin Delta Community College District

Stockton, CA, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144929&o=95393&t=EN201024m-0e

Senior Program Manager – UMaine-ERDC Accelerating Rapid P…
Advanced Structures and Composites Center UMaine
Advanced Structures and Composites Center
Orono, ME, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 2, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=143678&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

                  ACADEMIC POSITIONS

NEW! – Adjunct Associate Professor – Engineering
San Joaquin Delta Community College District

Stockton, CA, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 23, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=148027&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Assistant or Associate Professor
University of Connecticut
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Storrs, CT, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 22, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147986&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Faculty Position
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Cambridge, MA, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 21, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147930&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Multi-disciplinary Faculty Positions
The University of Texas at Arlington
Provost Office
Arlington, TX, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 21, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147879&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Open Academic Position: Professors, Assoc. & Asst….
SRM University, AP – Andhra Pradesh
Engineering
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Date Posted: Oct. 20, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147821&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Faculty Positions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Cambridge, MA, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147743&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Asst. or Assoc. Prof. – Aerospace Engr. and Roboti…
The University of Texas at El Paso
Mechanical Engineering
El Paso, TX, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 14, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147706&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Position in Indus. Engr. in Health Care
Concordia University
Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147704&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Position in Federated Machine Learning
Concordia University
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147703&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Position in Advanced Computer Networking
Concordia University
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147702&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Pos. in Machine Learning and Artifici…
Concordia University
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147701&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Pos. in Biomaterials/Biochemical Engr.
Concordia University
Chemical and Materials Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147700&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Pos. in Chemical Process Control and …
Concordia University
Chemical and Materials Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147699&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Position in Smart Materials
Concordia University
Chemical and Materials Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147698&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Pos. in Construction Engr. and Manag…
Concordia University
Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147697&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Ecole de Technologie Superieure
Mechanical Engineering Department
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 14, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147692&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Assistant Professor
Wayne State University
Mechanical Engineering
detroit, MI, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 13, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147671&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Professor/Associate Prof. of Biomedical Engr. and …
University of Victoria
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Victoria, BC, Canada
Date Posted: Oct. 14, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147669&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Part-Time Instructor/ Applied Engineering Technology
North Carolina A & T State University
Temporary Employment
Greensboro, NC, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 13, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147630&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
US Military Academy
Civil & Mechanical Engineering
West Point, NY, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 13, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147570&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Full/ Assoc. Professor in Robotics/ Computer Vision
Ajman University
College of Engineering and Information Technology
Ajman, United Arab Emirates
Date Posted: Oct. 13, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147559&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Open-Track, Tenure-Track Faculty in Mechanical Engr.
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
College of Engineering
Odessa, TX, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 9, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147503&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Princeton, NJ, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 5, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147224&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Asst. Prof. of Mech. and Aerospace Engr. (Aerospac…
California State University Long Beach
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Long Beach, CA, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 2, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147168&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Engineering Edu.
Utah State University
Engineering Education
Logan, UT, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 1, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147067&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Multiple Tenure Track Faculty Positions – Civil an…
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Atlanta, GA, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 1, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147059&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)
Princeton, NJ, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 1, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147057&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Asst. Prof. – Aeronautics & Astronautics (Controls)
University of Washington
William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Seattle, WA, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 1, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147044&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Asst. Prof. – Synthesis and Processing of Material…
University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 30, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146988&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Multiple Academic Positions in The School of Aeros…
University of Sydney
The School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engr.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: Sep. 30, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146972&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Assistant Professor – Electrical & Computer Engr.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 29, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146959&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Multiple Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Positions
Auburn University
Aerospace Engineering
Auburn, AL, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 29, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146957&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Faculty Positions in Engineering and Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Boulder, CO, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 29, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146906&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Professeure ou professeur en aerospatial
Ecole de Technologie Superieure
Mechanical Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
Date Posted: Sep. 25, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146812&o=95393&t=EN201024m-2e

NEW! – Assistant/Associate Prof. in Geotech. and Geoinfor…
University of Utah
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 25, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146766&o=95393&t=EN201024m-2e

NEW! – Tenure-Track Faculty Position, Assistant/Associate…
McMaster University
Mechanical Engineering
Hamilton, Canada
Date Posted: Sep. 23, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146730&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Assistant/Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 24, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146729&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Multiple Faculty Positions
University of Pennsylvania
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 23, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146711&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Faculty Positions in Chemical and Biomolecular Engr.
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Atlanta, GA, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 22, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146683&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

NEW! – Research & Development Engineer (7119U) – 10465
University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 22, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146659&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

Data-Driven advanced Manufacturing Tenure-Track faculty Pos.
University of Notre Dame
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Notre Dame, IN, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 21, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146650&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
Jeddah-based University
Department of Computer Engineering
Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Date Posted: Sep. 16, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146498&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

Multiple Tenure-Track Faculty Positions (2020-2021 Hiring…
Carnegie Mellon University
Mechanical Engineering Department
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 17, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146482&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

Assistant Professor
Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison
Mechanical Engineering
Madison, WI, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146478&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Faculty Position Department of Aerospace Engineering
Mississippi State University
Aerospace Engineering
Starkville, MS, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146477&o=95393&t=EN201024m-7e

Mechanical Engineering Faculty – IRC45669
Khalifa University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Abu Dhabi, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 8, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146252&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

New Faculty Searches in Mechanical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University Park, PA, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 8, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146198&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Tenure- Track Faculty Position, Mechanical Engineering
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Mechanical Engineering
New York, NY, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 3, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146137&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Tenure Track Faculty
University of Notre Dame
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Notre Dame, IN, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 2, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146107&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Assistant Professor Tenure-Track Faculty Position
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Singapore, Singapore
Date Posted: Sep. 2, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146041&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Practice Assistant in Engineering
THE AFRO-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AFRICA
RECTORY
OYALA, Equatorial Guinea
Date Posted: Aug. 31, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145992&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Assistant and Associate Professors in Advanced Manufacturing
University of British Columbia
Mechanical Engineering
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date Posted: Aug. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145959&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors in Robotics
University of British Columbia
Mechanical Engineering
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date Posted: Aug. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145958&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors in Mech. Engr.
University of British Columbia
Mechanical Engineering
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date Posted: Aug. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145957&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Asst. or Assoc. Prof. in Mechanical Engineering
Benedictine College
Engineering
Atchison, KS, United States
Date Posted: Aug. 26, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145867&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
Global Engagement
Al Khobar, Eastern, Saudi Arabia
Date Posted: Aug. 17, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145577&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Assistant or Associate Professor
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Milwaukee, WI, United States
Date Posted: Aug. 11, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145427&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Teaching- Track Faculty Position
Carnegie Mellon University
Mechanical Engineering Department
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Date Posted: Aug. 10, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145357&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Faculty Positions in Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Mechanical Engineering
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Date Posted: Aug. 10, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145342&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Professor of Practice
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Date Posted: Aug. 10, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145335&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position-Mechanical, Mate…
Univ. of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. Joint Institute
Mech. and Elec. Engineering (including Related Disciplines)
Shanghai, China
Date Posted: Aug. 6, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145200&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Scholarly Assistant Professor
Washington State University – Everett Campus
School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Everett, WA, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144938&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Asst. Prof. (tenure track) / Assoc. Prof. at the Section …
Aarhus University
The Department of Engineering
Aarhus, Denmark
Date Posted: Jul. 27, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144907&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Open Rank Faculty in Mechanical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Raleigh, NC, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 21, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144770&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Research Assistant Professor, Non-tenure Track, Renewable
The University of Alabama
Mechanical Engineering
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 16, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144652&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Lecture Pool – Mechanical Engineering – College of Engr.
University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 7, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144091&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Lecturer Pool – Jacobs Inst. for Design Innovation – Coll…
University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 7, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=143912&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Instructor 1 – Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Date Posted: Jun. 26, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=143384&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Lecturer/Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Michigan Technological University
Biomedical Engineering
Houghton, MI, United States
Date Posted: May. 22, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=142167&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

               POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS

NEW! – Research Assistant – Axial Compressors Aerodynamics
von Karman Institute
Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department
Sint-Genesius-Rode, Brussels, Belgium
Date Posted: Oct. 16, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147771&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Postdoctoral Research Assoc
University of North Texas
UNT-Mechanical & Energy Engineer-130340
Denton, TX, United States
Date Posted: Oct. 8, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=147449&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

NEW! – Post-Doctoral Researcher in Molecular Simulations
University of Rochester
Chemical Engineering
Rochester, NY, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146884&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

NEW! – Post-Doctoral Research Associate in iCVD Research
University of Rochester
Chemical Engineering
Rochester, NY, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146877&o=95393&t=EN201024m-6e

Post-Doc Scholar
University of Kentucky
8H700:Mechanical Engineering
Lexington, KY, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 15, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146483&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Indus. Postdoctoral Pos. In Design For Metal Additive Man…
University of Alberta
Mechanical Engineering
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Date Posted: Sep. 9, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146279&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Postdoctoral Positions in Point-of-Care Diagnostic and Se…
Johns Hopkins University
Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering
Baltimore, MD, United States
Date Posted: Sep. 9, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=146277&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Research Asst. – Experim. aerothermodynamics for turbines…
von Karman Institute
Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department
Sint-Genesius-Rode, Brussels, Belgium
Date Posted: Aug. 28, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=145945&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Postdoctoral Researcher
City College of the City University of New York
Chemical Engineering
New York, NY, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 14, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144583&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Postdoctoral Researcher
City College of the City University of New York
Chemical Engineering
New York, NY, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 14, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144582&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Post-doctoral Research Scientist
Columbia University
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
New York, NY, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 10, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=144464&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

Postdoctoral Research Assoc. in Offshore Model Testing an…
Advanced Structures and Composites Center UMaine
Advanced Structures and Composites Center
Orono, ME, United States
Date Posted: Jul. 2, 2020

https://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=143676&o=95393&t=EN201024m-8e

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Dissertation Defense: Haoyuan Jing

Title: Phospholipid Behavior and Dynamics in Curved Biological Membranes

Author: Haoyuan Jing

Date/Time: November 6, 2020 11:00am-1:00pm

Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2663589029

Committee Members
Dr. Siddhartha Das (Chair)
Dr. Silvina Matysiak (Dean’s Represenative)
Dr. Doron Levy
Dr. Amir Riaz
Dr. Peter Chung
Dr. Kumaran Ramamurthi (Special Member)

Abstract: Curvature in biological membranes defines the morphology of cells and organelles and serves key roles in maintaining a variety of cellular functions, enabling trafficking, recruiting and localizing shape-responsive proteins. For example, the bacterial protein SpoVM is a small amphipathic alpha-helical protein that localizes to the outer surface of a forespore, the only convex surface in the mother bacteria. Understanding several of these membrane curvature dependent events rely on a thorough understanding of the properties, energetics, and interactions of the constituent lipid molecules in presence of curvatures.  

In this dissertation, we have used molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to explore how the curvature of the lipid bilayer (LBL), a simplified mimic of the cell membrane, affects the packing fraction and diffusivity of lipid molecules in the LBL, energetics of lipid flip flop in the LBL, and lipid desorption from the LBLs. We have also investigated the interaction between LBLs and a small bacterial protein, SpoVM, which was previously shown to preferentially embed in positively curved membranes. Our work started with simulating convex surface, represented by the nanoparticle supported lipid bilayers (NPSLBLs) in MD. We first quantified the self-assembly, structure, and properties of a NPSLBL with a diameter of 20 nm and showed how the type of the nanoparticle (NP) affects the properties of the NPSLBLs. Second, we studied the energetics of lipid flip flop and desorption from LBLs for the cases of planar substrate supported lipid bilayer (PSSLBL) and NPSLBL. Finally, we investigated the energetics of SpoVM desorption from the PSSLBL and the NPSLBL providing clues to the fundamental driving forces dictating the curvature sensing of SpoVM. 

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Announcements Workshops, Seminars, & Events

Mechanical Engineering Graduate School Seminar Series

A Webinar Series for the Big 10+ Mechanical Engineering Departments

The Mechanical Engineering Graduate School Seminar Series consists of presentations twice a week about graduate studies at top mechanical engineering departments across the nation. The online webinars will occur every Monday and Thursday at 5:00 pm Eastern Time and will consist of two graduate program representatives presenting for 30 minutes each about the graduate program at their institution. The seminar series will kick off with a panel discussion — “The Nuts and Bolts of ME Graduate Studies” — which covers general topics related to graduate study such as degree options, funding opportunities, crafting your application, and selecting a school.

The intended audience for this seminar series is undergraduates and MS students that might be interested in graduate studies in mechanical engineering. Join the webinar here!

Participating schools include:

Fall 2020 Schedule

Mondays and Thursdays – 5:00 PM (ET), 4:00 PM (CT), 2:00 (PT)

Presenter Schedule
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Future Faculty Program – 2021 Cohort Application Open

The Future Faculty Program (FFP) was introduced to increase the number of Ph.D. graduates who obtain academic positions, in particular faculty positions in prestigious engineering and computer science schools. In addition, the FFP is intended to improve the preparation of students for these academic careers, so that students can better succeed once they obtain such a position. Students admitted to the program are designated Future Faculty Fellows.

Eligible applicants are doctoral students enrolled in the Clark School or the Department of Computer Science who have advanced to candidacy OR completed coursework and qualifying exams. When students apply, the application system will request letters of recommendation from their research advisors and one additional faculty member. A doctoral student’s research advisor will be required to engage in mentoring the student as a Fellow, so the commitment to actively monitor his or her progress towards preparing to apply for a faculty position should be explicitly stated in the recommendation letter. Fellows are chosen based on their motivation for becoming a faculty member and their potential for securing a tenure-track faculty position at a top-50 academic institution. We expect to choose up to 24 new fellows for Spring 2021.

For more information about the FFP and application instructions, please visit: https://eng.umd.edu/future-faculty-program.

The deadline for receipt of completed applications is November 12, 2020. Letters of recommendation are due November 20, 2020. Accepted students will be notified by the end of the Fall semester and must enroll in the one-credit course ENES601 in Spring 2020, which meets Thursdays, 3:30 – 4:45pm.

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Dissertation Defense: Donald “Bucket” Costello

Title: CERTIFYING AN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM TO COMPLETE TASKS CURRENTLY RESERVED FOR QUALIFIED PILOTS

Author: Donald “Bucket” Costello

Date/Time: Oct 29, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Examining Committee:

  • Asst. Prof. Huan Xu, Chair/Advisor
  • Prof. Adam Porter, Dean’s Representative
  • Prof. Jeffrey Herrmann
  • Prof. Miao Yu
  • Asst. Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter

Abstract: When naval certification officials issue a safety of flight clearance, they are certifying that when the vehicle is used by a qualified pilot they can safety accomplish their mission. The pilot is ultimately responsible for the vehicle. While the naval safety of flight clearance process is an engineering based risk mitigation process, the qualification process for military pilots is largely a trust process. When a commanding officer designates a pilot as being fully qualified, they are placing their trust in the pilot’s decision making abilities during off nominal conditions. The advent of autonomous systems will shift this established paradigm as there will no longer be a human in the loop who is responsible for the vehicle. Yet, a method for certifying an autonomous vehicle to make decisions currently reserved for qualified pilots does not exist. We propose and exercise a methodology for certifying an autonomous system to complete tasks currently reserved for qualified pilots. First, we decompose the steps currently taken by qualified pilots to the basic requirements. We then develop a specification which defines the envelope where a system can exhibit autonomous behavior. Following a formal methods approach to analyzing the specification, we developed a protocol that software developers can use to ensure the vehicle will remain within the clearance envelope when operating autonomously. Second, we analyze flight test data of an autonomous system completing a task currently re-served for qualified pilots while focusing on legacy test and evaluation methods to determine suitability for obtaining a certification. We found that the system could complete the task under controlled conditions. However, when faced with conditions that were not anticipated (situations where a pilot uses their judgment) the vehicle was unable to complete the task. Third, we highlight an issue with the use of onboard sensors to build the situational awareness of an autonomous system. As those sensors degrade, a point exists where the situational awareness provided is insufficient for sound aeronautical decisions. We demonstrate (through modeling and simulation) an objective measure for adequate situational awareness (subjective end) to complete a task currently reserved for qualified pilots.


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Workshops, Seminars, & Events

Imminent Events/Seminars – The Institute for Systems Research

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING EVENTS WILL BE HOSTED VIRTUALLY, AND THAT MANY OF THEM REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2020

12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M.  Policies and Strategies to Improve Energy Affordability

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020

9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M.  CCSP Seminar: Amin Aminzadeh Gohari, The Auxiliary Receiver Approach in Network Information Theory

11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.  NEXTOR III The Pandemic and Aviation Webinar #3: Air Navigation Service Providers/Flight Operations

12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M.  IEEE Leadership Seminar: “Pathways from an Engineering Degree”

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020

1:00 P.M.  MSE Seminar: Returning the favor: ALD for catalysts, or catalytic reactions for ALD?

2:00 P.M.  Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar: Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2020

12:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.  School of Public Policy Election Series: Empowering Voters–An Accessible and Full Ballot Box

3:00 P.M.  UMD Faculty and Staff Convocation

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020

11:00 A.M.  ChBE Seminar: Atomic and molecular layer deposition of redox-active thin films

4:00 P.M.-4:30 P.M.  MAMNA Virtual Seminar: Daniel Cohen, Princeton Univ, “Study & Control of Collective Cell Behavior”

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020

1:30 P.M.  CS Seminar: Jayesh Gupta, “Deep Implicit Coordination Graphs for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning”

4:30 P.M.-5:30 P.M.  Lockheed Martin Sikorsky Fall 2020 Colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020

10:30 A.M.-12:00 A.M.  Adding Resilience to the Energy Equation

4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.  UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture by Professor Derek A. Paley

5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.  The Student Advantage: Why You Should Start Your Company Today

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020

1:00 P.M.  MSE Seminar: How to Destroy a Satellite in Three Easy Steps, and How Material Scientists Can Help!

2:00 P.M.  Maryland Robotics Student Seminar: Instant Segmentation of Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay

3:30 P.M.-4:30 P.M.  Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Rachael Myers-Ward, U.S. Naval Research Lab

For a full listing of ISR events, visit the ISR website at:   https://isr.umd.edu/events/index.php

Please submit upcoming events by visiting the ISR website events page or by clicking the following link:  Submit an event to the ISR calendar.   

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Dissertation Defense: Nicholas Jankowski

Title: Phase Change Materials For Vehicle And Electronic Transient Thermal Systems

Advisory Committee
Professor F. Patrick McCluskey, Chair
Professor Neil Goldsman (Dean’s Representative)
Professor Hugh Bruck
Professor Michael Ohadi
Professor Jungho Kim

Date & Time: November 5, 2020; 3:00-5:00pm 

Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91690449959?pwd=cUpZejJPOXdEdlJvMzhURVJ0c2U1dz09

Abstract:  Most vehicle operating environments are transient in
nature, yet traditional subsystem thermal management addresses peak
load conditions with steady-state designs.  The large, overdesigned
systems that result are increasingly unable to meet target system
size, weight and power demands.  Phase change thermal energy storage
is a promising technique for buffering thermal transients while
providing a functional thermal energy reservoir.  Despite significant
research over the half century, few phase change material (PCM) based
solutions have transitioned out of the research laboratory.  This work
explores the state of phase change materials research for vehicle and
electronics applications and develops design tool compatible modeling
approaches for applying these materials to electronics packaging.

This thesis begins with a comprehensive PCM review, including over 700
candidate materials across more than a dozen material classes, and
follows with a thorough analysis of transient vehicle thermal systems.
After identifying promising materials for each system with potential
for improvement in emissions reduction, energy efficiency, or thermal
protection, future material research recommendations are made
including improved data collection, alternative metrics, and increased
focus on metallic and solid-state PCMs for high-speed applications.

Following the material and application review, the transient
electronics heat transfer problem is specifically addressed.
Electronics packages are shown using finite element based thermal
circuits to exhibit both worsened response and extreme convective
insensitivity under pulsed conditions.  Both characteristics are
quantified using analytical and numerical transfer function models,
including both clarification of apparently nonphysical thermal
capacitance and demonstration that the convective insensitivity can be
quantified using a package thermal Elmore delay metric.

Finally, in order to develop design level PCM models, an energy
conservative polynomial smoothing function is developed for Enthalpy
and Apparent Capacity Method phase change models.  Two case studies
using this approach examine the incorporation of PCMs into electronics
packages: substrate integrated Thermal Buffer Heat Sinks using
standard finite element modeling, and direct on-die PCM integration
using a new phase change thermal circuit model.  Both show
effectiveness in buffering thermal transients, but the metallic phase
change materials exhibit the best performance with significant
sub-millisecond temperature suppression, something improved cooling or package integration alone were unable to address.

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Future Leaders in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Celebrating Diversity and Innovation

A NATIONAL WEBINAR SERIES  |  #MAEFutureLeaders
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 – 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST

Join the webinar: http://bit.ly/MAEFutureLeaders

Sofia Arevalo

Ph.D. Student
Department of Mechanical Engineering
U.C. Berkeley

“Nanoindentation of Orthopedic Polymers: Mechanical Properties at the Macro-, Micro- and Nano-length Scales”
 

Nosakhare Edoimioya 

Ph.D. Student 
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
 
“Data-Driven Control for High-Throughput Additive Manufacturing” 

Each Presentation will be 20 minutes followed by a questions and answer period

Host: Professor Howard A. Stone

Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

About Future Leaders in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Celebrating Diversity and Innovation:This nationwide online seminar series will highlight research contributions by graduate students and postdocs from groups that are underrepresented within Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. In addition to providing exposure and mentorship opportunities to the speakers, the seminar series will create a network among underrepresented students, postdocs and faculty in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering departments across the country. The organizing committee asks that you please nominate speakers for the seminar series or volunteer to mentor speakers using the MAEFutureLeaders website.

Website  |  Sign up for mailing list  |  Twitter: #MAEFutureLeaders
 Questions? Email the seminar series organizers.

John Dabiri(Caltech)  | Samuel Graham(Georgia Tech) 
Allison Okamura (Stanford University)  |  Howard Stone (Princeton University)
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Upcoming Dissertation Defense – Ransisi Huang

Development of a General-Purpose Steady-State Simulation Framework for Vapor Compression Systems

Advisory Committee:
Professor Reinhard Radermacher, Chair
Associate Professor Jacob Bedrossian
Associate Professor Katrina Groth
Professor Jungho Kim
Professor Jelena Srebric
Research Scientist Vikrant Aute

Date & Time: October 8, 2020 2pm-4pm

Abstract
The vapor compression system is the dominating technology in heat pumping, air conditioning and refrigeration. Vapor compression is associated with significant energy consumption and high global warming potential. Steady-state simulation of vapor compression system is a crucial numerical technology that helps to assess and mitigate the energy and environmental impact of these systems. This dissertation aims to advance the steady-state modeling and simulation technologies for vapor compression systems toward higher level of flexibility, computational efficiency, and robustness, improving designs and reducing time to market.

First, the dissertation proposes a generalized solution methodology for the steady-state analysis of arbitrary vapor compression systems. A tripartite-graph based tearing algorithm is proposed to generically formulate the residual equations. The methodology was extensively validated by five test systems with capacities from 10 to 100 kW. The maximum simulation energy imbalance ( ) was 0.91%, and the maximum system performance deviation ( ) was 8.94%. The computation time for one system ranges from 2 to 851 s. The methodology was also applied to analyze two advanced vapor compression systems, presenting strong capability to contribute to the acceleration of their R&D stage.

Second, the dissertation develops an approximation-assisted modeling methodology to speed up the steady-state system simulation. Three approximation-assisted heat exchanger models were compared in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. Kriging metamodel presented the highest accuracy among the three. For heat exchanger performance approximation, its overall ∆P and ∆h mean absolute error (MAE) were 4.46% and 0.9%, respectively. For system simulations, the maximum COP and capacity errors with Kriging metamodel were 2.54% and 1.45%, respectively. System simulation was sped up by a factor of 10 to 600, depending on the test
conditions.

Third, the dissertation proposes two convergence improvement approaches on the basis of nonlinear equation fundamentals, and assessed them on a standard vapor compression system as a first step, allowing for later application to more complex cycles. The assessment results show that a large initial Jacobian condition number presents low convergence probability at the current initial guess point. The results also indicate a correlation between component nonlinearity and simulation convergence. It was found that by changing the characterization methods in the heat exchanger models, 47 out of 51 originally non-converged cases were able to reach convergence.

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Faculty Opening: Mechanical Engineering – University of Michigan

Position Description

The Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME), University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor, seeks outstanding applicants for full-time, tenured or tenure-track, faculty positions. Underrepresented
minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. The positions are open for either junior or senior-level appointments. The focus of this search is for candidates working at the intersection of engineering, social justice, or common good, including work that addresses anti-racism, inclusion, equity or other topics. Prior record at this intersection is valued, but not essential for junior applicants.
The candidates’ research, teaching and inclusion statements should define common good or social justice as they apply towards their career goals.

Applicants should have an earned Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering or an appropriate field. We seek scholars who will provide inspiration, leadership, and impact in research, teaching, and service. To ensure full consideration, candidates are encouraged to apply now and before December 1, 2020, as applications will be reviewed immediately upon receipt.

Required Application Details

(1) a detailed c.v.

(2) statements on research and teaching
and contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion (prior and/or proposed work related to the intersection of engineering and social justice or common good can be captured in any or all of these
statements)

(3) up to three representative publications, and (4) the names and contact information of at
least three references.

Applications must be submitted electronically at http://me.engin.umich.edu/facultysearch.

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Jobs/Internships

Campus Job Opening – Post Doctoral Associate

Position Details:

The successful candidate will take an exciting and leading technical role in a DOE/ARPA-E project in the REPAIR program that is being led by UMD. The position involves thermal and structural modeling of a natural gas distribution pipe environment during a high-temperature (>1000 degC) sintering process that is used to deposit a new layer of metal within an existing pipe. The goal is to quantify the temperature profile within the pipe and its surroundings for a range of process conditions, and to quantify the structural properties of the “pipe in pipe” structure that results from the deposition process. The modeling results will directly inform process design and innovation, and the successful candidate will be deeply involved in improving the metal deposition process for this natural gas pipe application.

The position will be in the Albertus research group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, but also work closely with the Hu research group in the Department of Materials Science and the three project industrial parners (HighT-Tech LLC, a UMD spin out, Diakont, and Exelon). This will be a fast-paced, results-oriented, high-profile, and team-based project.

More information on the REPAIR program is available here:
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs/repair

More information on the UMD project is available here:
https://arpae.energy.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/REPAIR_Project_Descriptions_FINAL.pdf

Qualifications:

  • A PhD or equivalent experience in engineering or the physical sciences.
  • Significant experience with 3D, transient, finite-element modeling of thermal, structural mechanics, and/or related processes.
  • A strong publication record demonstrating originality, technical depth, and the ability to conduct research both independently and as part of a team.
  • Strong physical intuition and an ability to identify and quantify the leading order effects in a 3D, multi-physics, coupled, physical system.
  • Effective written and oral communications skills.

Preferences:

  • Modeling of conjugate heat transfer.
  • Experience with a modeling package such as Comsol or Ansys.
  • Demonstrated experience with IP creation and filing patents. The project will include significant opportunities for creating and filing IP.

Best Consideration Date: 11/01/2020

Apply Here!

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KLA eUser Meeting – Nanomechanical Testing

KLA is hosting a nanomechanical testing eUser meeting scheduled in the North America time zone on September 29th & 30th, 15:00 to 17:00 (New York). We would be honored to have you attend! We would like to share three exciting features about this free event.

  1. With over 15 presenters in the 4-hour meeting, this meeting promises to be jam packed with fun and extensive expertise,
  2. There are 8 Special Focal sessions that enable attendees to customize their meeting experience and generate the highest impact for their time spent in the meeting,
  3. All events are online, so they are easily accessible.

The schedule for this event is listed below. All registrants will receive links to the recorded presentation sessions. Questions should be directed to Bryan Crawford (Bryan.Crawford@kla.com). Please review the schedule and register here, today!     

Event Schedule

Dates: September 29th & 30th (2 Days and only 2 hours/day)

Time: 15:00 to 17:00 (New York) each day

Registration: https://kla-tencor.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlfuitqz0rH9RK1AoY1uO6kBQ01VLusE1rv 

Day 1 (Sept 29th)

15:00   Welcome and Kick-off (John Swindeman, KLA)

15:05   Whole Group Presentation (Dr. Warren Oliver, KLA)

15:35   Parallel Special Focal Sessions lead by academic and industry experts. Attendees choose one session during registration.

§  Nanoindentation in Battery Materials, Prof. Erik Herbert (Michigan Tech University)

§  Strain-Stress Curves via Indentation, Jennifer Hay (KLA)

§  High Speed Property Mapping by Nanoindentation, Dr. Maria Kosmidou (University of Kentucky)

§  Nanoindentation study of N95 masks Dr. Yujie Meng (KLA)

16:05   Tornado Talk – whirlwind presentation, Gianmarco Monfared (UC Davis)

16:15   Tornado Talk – whirlwind presentation, Fereshteh Mallakpour (MTU)

16:35   Whole Group Presentation, Prof. Wendy Gu (Stanford University)

16:55   Round Table Discussion (moderated by Bryan Crawford with panelist from the Special Topic Sessions)

Day 2 (Sept 30th)

15:10   Whole Group Presentation (Prof. Dannielle Cote, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

15:40   Parallel Special Topic Sessions lead by academic and industry experts. Attendees choose one session during registration.

§  High Temperature Nanoindentation, Prof. Jaafar El-Awady (Johns Hopkins University)

§  Nanoindentation at High Strain Rates, Dr. Kurt E Johanns (KLA)

§  Optical Profilometry and Applications, Rae Zeng (KLA) 

§  Nanoindentation in Undergraduate Education, Dr. Susan Gentry (UC Davis)

16:05   Tornado Talk – whirlwind presentation by graduate student at WPI. 

16:15   Whole Group Presentation, Prof. Dan Gianola (University of California, Santa Barbara)

16:45   Mixed Social and Round Table Discussion, Moderated by Bryan Crawford with panelist from all Special Topic sessions.

Register here, today!     

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Science Career Path: Job Opportunities

Brought to you by Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

The AAAS has updated its September 2020 volume of the Science Magazine. Included in the magazine are international job opportunities, career tips, and many other resources that could benefit you in your career path. Check out a few new job openings around the world below!

JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Scientist & R&D Manager
RayBiotech, Inc. | Georgia
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Postdoctoral Position
Saint Louis University | Missouri
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Faculty Position in Computational Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University Medical School | Tennessee
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Physics Chair Search – School of Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology | Georgia
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry or Biochemistry
California Institute of Technology | California
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NTI Faculty Position
Norton Thoracic Institute (NTI) | Arizona
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Tenure-track Faculty Position
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Massachusetts
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Postdoctoral Scholarship
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) | Massachusetts
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Assistant Professor – Plant Systems Biology
University of Toronto | Canada
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JOBS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND REST OF WORLD

Professorship of Experimental Cardiovascular Pharmacology
University of Regensburg | Germany
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Sustainability Science Regional Lead – Europe
Microsoft | France
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Faculty Position in research of advanced cognitive and affective brain functions using macaques
RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) | Japan
More Jobs in Japan

PhD/Postdoc candidate in behavioral neurophysiology
NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway
More Jobs in Norway

Chair Professor of Synthetic Biology
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong
More Jobs in Hong Kong

Professor in Materials Science
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland
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Junior Research Group Leader
The Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) | South Korea
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Head of Mass Spectrometry
Queen’s University Belfast | United Kingdom
More Jobs in the United Kingdom

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) | China


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THE LILLIAN GILBRETH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

Purdue and Engineering Co-brand

Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowships available to innovative, interdisciplinary researchers with recent PhD’s in engineering or related sciences 
The Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellows will be selected by a panel of distinguished faculty based on their CV, letters of recommendations, potential for broader impact on industry and society, and proposed research. Gilbreth fellows will have the unique opportunity to prepare themselves for a successful career in academia by:   
  • Undertaking interdisciplinary research with two co-advisors in different fields
  • Participation in professional development activities tailored to chosen academia paths

In memory of the distinguished Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth, a Purdue Engineering professor from 1935-1948, fellowships in her name are now open to exceptional young individuals of great promise.  

Lillian Gilbreth Fellows are provided with:

  • Excellent stipend plus benefits
  • $5K for professional development
  • Interdisciplinary research with leading faculty
  • Mentoring guided by a comprehensive individual development plan
Opportunities await for the best and brightest candidates.  

DEADLINE: December 4, 2020  

For more information: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Research/GilbrethFellowships 
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Fall 2020 Tour of the Mechanical Engineering Department

As you may know, the university has implemented several new guidelines designed to ensure the safety and wellness of the UMD community. One of those guidelines are new entry/exit points from university facilities. Previously, you could enter/exit the buildings from any door, and travel throughout the buildings in any direction you please. To ensure proper social distancing, all university facilities have designated entrances and exits for the community to use. The facilities also have directional arrow posters to guide you throughout the building.

We have created a video to show you the quickest and safest way to get to the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering’s student services’ office. The video will also explain how to exit the building from the ME hallway using both the 1st and ground floor exits. Finally, you will see how to contact ME staff if they’re out of the office.

Click the link below to access the video.

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NASA Postdoctoral Program

The NASA Postdoctoral Program offers US and international scientists the opportunity to advance their research while contributing to NASA’s scientific goals.  The NPP supports fundamental science; explores the undiscovered; promotes intellectual growth; and encourages scientific connections.

Selected by a competitive peer-review process, NPP Fellows complete one- to three-year Fellowship appointments that advance NASA’s missions in earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, space bioscience, aeronautics and engineering, human exploration and space operations, and astrobiology.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in hand before beginning the fellowship, but may apply while completing the degree requirements. U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents, and foreign nationals eligible for J-1 status as a Research Scholar may apply.

Stipends start at $60,000 per year, with supplements for high cost-of-living areas and for certain academic specialties. Financial assistance is available for relocation and health insurance, and $10,000 per year is provided for professional travel.

Applications are accepted three times each year: March 1, July 1, and November 1.

To learn more about specific opportunities and to apply, visit https://npp.usra.edu/opportunities/

For further information and to apply, visit:  https://npp.usra.edu/

Please send any questions to: npphelp@usra.edu

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ORISE Research Participation Opportunities at the FDA

Imaging and Biomarkers Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Food Effect Predictions for Extended-Release Drugs Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Gut Microbiome in SARS-CoV2 Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Manufacturing Related Deficiencies Assessment Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Workflow Assessment
Center for Devices and Radiological Health | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Biostatistical Research Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Prediction of Drug Mammary Excretion Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Toxicology Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Epidemiology Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Cosmetic Microbiology Analysis Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | STIPEND PROVIDED

Microbiology Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | Bedford Park, IL | STIPEND PROVIDED

Postdoctoral Chemistry Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | Bedford Park, IL | STIPEND PROVIDED
VIEW ALL OF OUR CURRENT OPPORTUNITESThe ORISE Research Participation Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is an educational and training program designed to provide college students, recent graduates, and university faculty opportunities to connect with the unique resources of the FDA. With the support of an assigned mentor, participants have authentic research experiences using equipment not found on most college campuses. These research experiences compliment the educational nature of the programs and make participants aware of potential STEM employment opportunities at the sponsoring agency. Participants will have access to unique research and training opportunities, top scientists and engineers, and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.
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Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellowship

We would like you to encourage you all to apply for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Lawrence Fellowship. The fellowship was established to provide extraordinary postdocs an opportunity to pursue independent, ground-breaking research in a National Lab setting. The Laboratory is committed to making their experience at LLNL positive and rewarding.

This three-year fellowship is awarded to your rising graduate students with uncommon talent, credentials, scientific track records, and potential for significant achievements. Typically, two to four awards are given each year. Fellows will propose creative and independent research in one or more aspects of science relevant to LLNL’s mission. Research areas may include:

  • Atmospheric Science 
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Computer Science
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science
  • Geoscience
  • Lasers
  • Materials Science
  • Physics

Applications are due on October 1.

Please contact the program administrator, Wendy Urteaga, at urteaga1@llnl.gov if you have any questions. 

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Schmidt Ocean Institute – 2020 Science Communications Internship

The Science Communications Internship aims to provide educational and practical support to graduate students studying marine science, communications, journalism, or a related field. Interns will work with our Communications team supporting outreach programs, with the goal of engaging, influencing, and generating public support for a healthy ocean through advanced scientific research, technology innovation, and open sharing of information. The intern will assist with a variety of strategic communications tasks and initiatives, contributing content to Schmidt Ocean Institute’s digital channels and interactive programs.

Location: Remote – Must operate in Pacific US Time Zone hours 


Application Deadline: 14 August 2020

Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) is a U.S. non-profit private operating foundation (www.schmidtocean.org) established in March 2009 to advance the frontiers of global marine research by providing state of the art operational, technological, and informational support to the pioneering ocean science and technology development project at sea and catalyze open sharing of information about the oceans. We bring together science and state-of-the-art technology to achieve lasting results in ocean research, catalyze open sharing of information, and to communicate the resulting knowledge to audiences around the world. 

Internship Summary:The Science Communications Internship aims to provide educational and practical support to graduate students studying marine science, communications, journalism or related fields. Interns will work with our Communications Team supporting outreach programs, with the goal of engaging, influencing, and generating public support for a healthy ocean through advanced scientific research, technology innovation, and open sharing of information. The intern will assist with a variety of strategic communications tasks and initiatives, contributing content to Schmidt Ocean Institute’s digital channels and interactive programs. This is a paid internship position. The timeframe for internship is Sept-Dec 2020, with possible renewal for spring and summer 2021.

Responsibilities: Participants selected to support the Science Communications Internship will assist, develop and support the following:

  • Assist with the development and upkeep of research cruise web pages, blogs, and archives, as well as real time and interactive content on the organization’s web site
  • Assist with outreach activities and messaging for Schmidt Ocean Institute and research vessel Falkor with staff and multimedia correspondents
  • Assist with visual content editing, organization, labeling and storage
  • Assist with various communications projects, school and community outreach activities
  • Assist with social media posts via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter

Requirements:

  • Must currently be enrolled as a Graduate Student, majoring in marine science, communications, journalism or related fields
  • Must be able to commit to 15 hours of work a week
  • Previous experience and/or coursework in marine science, communications, journalism, or related fields
  • Interest in oceanography, technology, and ocean exploration
  • Ability to learn new software
  • Fluent in spoken and written English
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States
  • Applicant must be at least 18 years of age

Preferred Skills: 

  • Demonstrated writing capabilities
  • Knowledge and experience with Adobe Creative Suite applications
  • Knowledge and experience with Google Apps / G Suite
  • Knowledge and experience with WordPress, or web design
  • Time management skills
  • The ability to work with a team, as well as alone (sometimes with minimal guidance)

Applications: 

  1. All intern applications should complete the online application here
  2. Applicants will need to submit a current CV/resume and current unofficial transcript to student@schmidtocean.org 
  3. Any application related queries should be sent to Lisa Pereira, Events & Marketing Manager, lpereira@schmidtocean.org
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Fulbright Israel – Postdoctoral Fellowships

Applications for the 2021-2022 year close on September 15, 2020.

Israeli universities are known for their high level of research in many fields. According to US News & World Report, seven of Israel’s universities rank among the world’s top 100 in a variety of disciplines. Israel is also home to one of the world’s most active tech ecosystems; revolutionary achievements in agricultural and medical research; and studies in diplomacy and international relations.

The Fulbright Israel commission will grant up to eight
postdoctoral fellowships to outstanding scholars who
are planning to begin a program of research during the
2021/22 – 2022/23 academic years at an accredited
university or non-profit research institution in Israel.
This program is open to researchers in all fields of
study.
Fellowship benefits include:

  • $47,500 per academic year
  • travel reimbursement for fellow and spouse
  • additional relocation grant available at host
    universities

Inquiries should be directed to Branden Johnson (brandenj@fulbright.org.il)

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Thesis Defense: Rachel Hess

Title: Automatic Optimization Methods for Patient-Specific Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Mark Fuge (Chair/Advisor)
  • Dr. Axel Krieger
  • Shapour Azarm

Date/Time: Jul 31, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92772967497

Abstract: Surgical intervention is sometimes necessary in cases of Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA). The post-repair geometry of the aorta can result in sub-optimal hemodynamics and can have long-term health impacts.
Patient-specific designs for tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) allow greater control over post-repair geometry. This thesis proposes a method for automatically optimizing patient-specific TEVGs using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and the ANSYS Fluent adjoint solver. Our method decreases power loss in the graft by 25-60\% compared to the native geometry. As patient-specific graft design can be challenging due to incomplete or uncertain flow and geometry data, this thesis also quantifies the robustness of the optimal designs  with respect to CFD boundary conditions derived from imaging data. We show that using velocity conditions that deviate by more than 20\% of the measured peak systolic velocity, our method produces grafts with deviations on the order of 5\% in predicted power loss performance. Lastly, as one way to accelerate the optimization process, we demonstrate and compare how some established machine learning models (K Nearest Neighbors and Kernel Ridge Regression) predict reasonable starting points for an optimizer on a 2D bifurcated pipe dataset.

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MBI Educational Foundation Scholarship

The Modular Building Institute is providing financial assisting to students in need of funds through their two scholarship programs created for the current year 2020. The awards will act as a great help for the beneficiaries to overcome their economic hurdles and achieve success.

The program is open for the applicants attending or planning to attend a college, university, or higher education. The mechanical engineering student that demonstrates a continued understanding of how heating and air conditioning product are also invited to apply for the Maury Tiernan Scholarship

The Modular Building Institute is the international non-profit trade association serving modular construction founded in 1983. Its members are manufacturers, contractors, and dealers in two distinct segments of the industry. It strives to keep up with the latest trends of the modular/offsite construction industry.

Who May Be Eligible?

Below are some necessary requirements from both of the scholarship program:

  • Any course of study is eligible as it does not have to be related to construction.
  • Applicants must have at least a 3.0 high school or college grade point average,
  • Must be able to submit copies of school transcripts, submit at least one letter of recommendation, and submit a personal statement.
  • Applicants to any school may apply for the Maury Tiernan Scholarship
  • Must be pursuing a degree directly related to mechanical engineering.
  • Verification that students are pursuing a mechanical engineering degree is required, for example, by providing copies of college applications.
  • Applicants should demonstrate with a written essay their understanding of mechanical engineering and modular construction. This online application will be used to determine eligibility as well as select a winning student

How to Apply 

The Modular Building Institute is accepting applications for the program electronically through an online application form. The eligible students are required to submit their asked documents according to the award they are interested in applying.

MBI Educational Foundation Scholarship Application

Maury Tiernan Scholarship Application

Rules

  • Participate in a tour given by an HVAC manufacturer or supplier of a modular building factory.
  • Participate in a client meeting with a modular building dealer or contractor.
  • Create a detailed HVAC plan for a modular building.

Benefits

The MBI Foundation will provide one $2,500 scholarship and the Canadian Foundation provides one $2,500 scholarship. Maury Tiernan will contribute $10,000 towards the education of a deserving student pursuing a mechanical engineering degree. The recipient will get sufficient help to continue or complete their further studies with the help of the grant.

Application Deadline

The applications should be submitted by the deadline of August 15 annually.

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Dissertation Defense: Sriram Hariharan

Title: Experimental Investigations and Scaling Analyses of Whirling Flames

Date: Thursday 23 July, 2020

Time: 3:00pm (Eastern), 12:00 (Pacific)

Advisory Committee

  • Professor Michael J. Gollner, Chair & Advisor
  •  Professor Elaine S. Oran, Co-Chair & Co-Advisor 
  • Professor Arnaud Trouvé
  •  Professor Peter B. Sunderland 
  • Professor James H. Duncan
  •  Professor Christopher Cadou
  •  Professor Konstantina Trivisa, Dean’s Representative

Abstract

Swirling flows are ubiquitous in nature, occurring over a large range of length scales – on the order of many tens-of-thousands of kilometers in the case of Sat- urn’s hexagonal polar vortex, to just a few centimeters in dandelion flight. Most instances of swirling flow involve momenta competing in two different directions. Whirling flames (also known as fire whirls) occur at the intersection of vortical flow fields and buoyant, reactive plumes, and they represent a general class of flows that may be considered slender vortices involving axial momentum from heat-release and tangential momentum from air entrainment. In this work, two previously unexplored characteristics of whirling flames are considered over a wide range of scales, spanning three orders of magnitude in length and four orders in heat-release rate.

First, emissions of particulate matter (PM) from fire whirls (FW) were measured and compared to those from free-buoyant pool fires (PF). For different pool diameters and fuels, FWs showed higher burning rate and fuel-consumption efficiency, but lower PM-emission rate, leading to lower PM- emission factors. The lower PM emissions from FWs is attributed to a feedback cycle between higher oxygen consumption from improved entrainment, higher average temperatures, increased heat feedback to the fuel pool, which in turn increases burning rate and entrainment. A scaling analysis showed that the PM emission factor decreased linearly with the ratio of inverse Rossby number to nondimensional heat-release rate.

Second, the structure of the blue whirl (BW), a soot-free, whirling-flame regime, was investigated using dimensional analysis and non-intrusive optical diag- nostics. Experimental data of heat-release rates and circulation for BWs and FWs from the literature were used to define the nondimensional equivalents of buoyant and azimuthal momenta. The combinations of these parameters showed that FWs primarily formed in a buoyancy-dominated regime, and that a circulation-dominated regime was required for a transition to the BW, corroborating hypotheses that the transition was caused by the bubble mode of vortex breakdown, resulting in the formation of a recirculation zone. Finally, optical diagnostics including OH- and PAH-PLIF, OH* and CH* chemiluminescence suggest a triple-flame structure an- chored at the blue ring region of the BW, with the rich branch formed by the lower blue cone, and the lean branch by the upper purple haze. These results show that the mixing process occurs upstream of the conical region and that the recirculation zone is comprised of combustion products.

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ORISE Research Participation Opportunities

The ORISE Research Participation Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is an educational and training program designed to provide college students, recent graduates, and university faculty opportunities to connect with the unique resources of the FDA. With the support of an assigned mentor, participants have authentic research experiences using equipment not found on most college campuses. These research experiences compliment the educational nature of the programs and make participants aware of potential STEM employment opportunities at the sponsoring agency. Participants will have access to unique research and training opportunities, top scientists and engineers, and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. New ORISE Research Participation opportunities are available in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration! A few open positions have been posted here, however you can visit the ORISE website to view and apply for more positions!

Postgraduate Data Science Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDEDUnder the guidance of a mentor, the participant will learn about the types of information required to assess the safety of substances added to, or that come into contact with food. The participant will also learn what types of data and data sources are used by the agency to assess the safety of substances added to food. The participant will observe how to architect, develop and construct an operational data store to be used for advanced analytics. The participant will get hands-on experience with how to develop a data product that utilizes data housed in the knowledgebase.
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Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Fellowship
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Fellowship | Silver Spring, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED
Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will play a key role in a collaborative project funded by FDA’s Office of Women’s Health (OWH), involving DIDSR staff, associates in other divisions within FDA, and external clinical collaborators (Washington Univ. at St Louis School of Medicine, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital) to develop and evaluate AI/ML algorithms linking histological data from whole slide images and related clinical factors to patient outcomes. The selected participant will have a chance to interact with a multidisciplinary group of scientists within the division and to learn about regulatory science issues at the FDA. VIEW/APPLY   
Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Spring, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED
This project investigates multiple patient factors, alone or in concert, and their effect on drug disposition (for example: age, gender, genetics, organ dysfunction, drug-drug interactions, etc). Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will learn about policy evaluations that will advance new drug development and promote therapeutic individualization. The participant will engage with the mentor in regulatory science research efforts to support development of both scientific and regulatory policy for the Office of Clinical Pharmacology. Activities may include literature review, analysis of existing and proposed policy, and/or construction of a knowledge base to store research data and inform further investigations. VIEW/APPLY
Postgraduate Data Science Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED
Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will learn about the types of information required to assess the safety of substances added to, or that come into contact with food. The participant will also learn what types of data and data sources are used by the agency to assess the safety of substances added to food. The participant will observe how to architect, develop and construct an operational data store to be used for advanced analytics. The participant will get hands-on experience with how to develop a data product that utilizes data housed in the knowledgebase. VIEW/APPLY
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Dissertation Defense: Cory Knick

Title: Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale Shape Memory Alloy Mems Actuators

Author: Cory Ray Knick

Date & Time: July 1, 2020 – 2:30-3:30pm

Committee: Dr. Hugh Bruck, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Chair

Dr. Christopher Morris, Branch Chief, US Army Research Laboratory

Dr. Patrick McCluskey, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Don DeVoe, Professor and Associate Chair, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Miao Yu, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Ichiro Takeuchi, Deans Representative, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Abstract: The miniaturization of engineering devices has created interest in new actuation methods capable of large displacements and high frequency responses. Shape memory alloy (SMA) thin films have exhibited one of the highest power densities of any material used in these actuation schemes with thermally recovery strains of up to 10%. With the use of a biasing force, such as from a passive layer in a bilayer structure, homogenous SMA films can experience reversible shape memory effects provided they are thick enough that the crystal structure is capable of transforming. However, thick films exhibit lower actuation displacements and speeds because of the larger inertial resistance. Therefore, there is a need to find a way to process thinner SMA films with grain structures that are capable of transformation in order to realize larger actuation displacements at higher speeds. 

In this work, a near-equiatomic NiTi magnetron co-sputtering process was developed to create nanoscale thick SMA films. By using a metallic seed layer, it was possible to induce the crystallization of epitaxial, columnar grains exhibiting the shape memory effects in nanoscale films. It was also possible to crystalize these SMA films at lower processing temperatures compared to directly sputtering thicker films onto Si wafers. The transformation behavior associated with the SME in these films were characterized using x-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and stress-temperature measurements at wafer level. After quantifying the shape memory effects at wafer-level, the SMA films were used to fabricate various microscale MEMS actuators. The SMA films were mated in several “bimorph” configurations to induce out of plane curvature in the low-temperature martensite phase. The curvature radius vs. temperature was characterized on MEMS cantilever structures to elucidate a relationship between residual stress, recovery stress, radius of curvature, and degree of unfolding. SMA MEMS actuators were fabricated and tested using joule heating to demonstrate rapid electrical actuation of NiTi MEMS devices at some of the lowest powers (5 – 15 mW) and operating frequencies (1 – 3 kHz) ever reported for SMA actuators. By developing a process to create nanoscale thickness NiTi SMA films, we enabled the fabrication of MEMS devices with full, reversible, actuation as low as 0.5 V. This indicated the potential of these devices to be used for high frequency, low power, and large displacement applications in power constrained environments (i.e. on chip).

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Thesis Defense: Mohammad Alsalti

Title: Development and In-Silico Evaluation of a Closed-Loop Fluid Resuscitation Control Algorithm with Mean Arterial Pressure Feedback.

Author: Mohammad Alsalti


Date & Time: June 26, 2020 – 2:00pm


Committee: 

  • Dr. Jin-Oh Hahn (Chair) 
  • Dr. Nikhil Chopra
  • Dr. Axel Krieger 

Abstract: A model-based closed-loop fluid resuscitation controller using mean arterial pressure (MAP) feedback is designed and later evaluated on an in-silico test-bed. The controller is based on a subject specific model of blood volume and MAP response to fluid infusion. This simple hemodynamic model is described using five parameters only. The model was able to reproduce blood volume and blood pressure response to fluid infusion using an experimental data set collected from 23 sheep and is therefore suitable to use for control design purposes. A model-reference adaptive control scheme was chosen to account for inter-subject variability captured in the parametric uncertainties of the underlying physiological model. Three versions of the control algorithm were studied under different measurement availability scenarios. In-silico evaluation of the three controllers was done based on a comprehensive cardiovascular physiology model on a cohort of 100 virtually generated patients.In-silico results showed consistent tracking performance across all patients unlike estimation performance, which varied depending on measurement availability. 

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Dissertation Defense: Yiyuan Qiao

Title: Personal cooling system with phase change material

Author: Yiyuan Qiao

Committee members:

Dr. Reinhard Radermacher(Chair)

Dr. Ichiro Takeuchi

Dr. Jelena Srebric

Dr. Bao Yang 

Dr. Amir Riaz

 Dr. Yunho Hwang

Date: June 26, 2020, 2:00 pm

Abstract: Personal cooling systems are attracting more attention recently since they can set back building thermostat setpoint to achieve energy savings and provide high-level human comfort by focusing on micro-environment conditions around occupants rather than the entire building space. Thus, a vapor compression cycle (VCC)-based personal cooling system with a condenser integrated with the phase change material (PCM) is proposed. The PCM heat exchanger (PCMHX) works as a condenser to store waste heat from the refrigerant in the cooling cycle, in which the PCM melting process can affect the system performance significantly. Different from most of the previous study, various refrigerant heat transfer characteristics along the condenser flow path can result in the uneven PCM melting, leading to the degradation of the system performance. Therefore, enhancing heat transfer in the PCM, investigating the proposed personal cooling system performance, improving PCMHX latent heat utilization in terms of the distribution of PCM melting, and developing a general-purpose PCM model are the objectives of this dissertation. 

Five PCMHX designs with different heat transfer enhancement including increasing heat-transfer area, embedding conductive structures, and using uniform refrigerant distribution among condenser branches are introduced first. Compared with non-enhanced PCM, the graphite-matrix-enhanced PCMHX performs the best with 5.5 times higher heat transfer coefficient and 49% increased coefficient of performance (COP). To investigate the proposed system performance, a system-level experimental parametric study regarding the thermostat setting, PCM recharge rates, and cooling time was conducted. Results show that the PCS can work properly with a stable cooling capacity of 160 W for 4.5 hours. A transient PCM-coupled system model was also developed for detailed system performance, PCM melting process and heat transfer analysis. From both experiment and simulation work, the uneven PCM melting was presented, which could result in an increase of condenser temperature and a degradation of system COP with time. One significant reason for the uneven PCM melting is the variation of the refrigerant temperature and heat transfer coefficient. Therefore, through experimental analysis, several solutions were proposed to minimize the negative effect of the uneven PCM melting. Results show that the less subcooling is recommended, and the new design with the PCM mass maldistribution can increase the cooling time by 28%. In addition, to extend the PCMHX application, a multi-tube PCMHX model was developed for general-purpose design. A new multi-tube heat transfer algorithm was proposed, and variable tube shape, connection, and topology for tubes and PCM blocks were considered. The comparison with other PCMHX models in the literature shows that the proposed model exhibits much higher flexibility and feasibility for comprehensive multi-tube configurations. The personal cooling system coupled with PCMHX could achieve energy savings for a range of 8-36% depending on the climate and building types in the U.S..

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Open Positions with the FDA

The ORISE Research Participation Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is an educational and training program designed to provide college students, recent graduates, and university faculty opportunities to connect with the unique resources of the FDA. With the support of an assigned mentor, participants have authentic research experiences using equipment not found on most college campuses. These research experiences compliment the educational nature of the programs and make participants aware of potential STEM employment opportunities at the sponsoring agency. Participants will have access to unique research and training opportunities, top scientists and engineers, and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. New ORISE Research Participation opportunities are available at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration!

Data Science Fellowship

Office of the Commissioner | Silver Spring, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED

This project will assemble data on sex-based differences in toxic responses. Sex-based differences in adverse reactions to medical device products such as cardiac devices and radiation or drugs are a subject of significant interest. The participant will interact with a knowledgeable collaborator and a team on data mining of adverse events databases and assembling results from literature searching into an integrated database. Retrieval of sex-specific toxicity data will be organized for use in the pre-market evaluation of the safety of medical devices including chemicals found in extracts, as well as adverse outcomes of radiation exposure, and in potential post-market forensic analyses of unexpected adverse events. The participant will learn about regulatory review practices and the integration of new approaches into product evaluation standards. VIEW/APPLY
Data Science and Visual Analytics Research Opportunity
Center for Veterinary Medicine | Rockville, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED

Under the guidance of a mentor, potential training projects for the selected participant will rain to understand and use complex, large relational datasets using the pharmacovigilance databases available in FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. The participant will have the opportunity to use datasets on FDA’s open FDA platform. As a result of this training, the participant will gain the education and knowledge of how to use pharmacovigilance data sets to design visual analytic dashboards that meet the needs of FDA review scientists and the public. VIEW/APPLY

Animal Food Analysis Research Opportunity
Center for Veterinary Medicine | Rockville, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED

As a result of this training, the participant will contribute to the development of a database of current animal food test methods. In doing so, the participant will gain the education and knowledge of how to collect and summarize technical information, in order to design internal FDA reports, training materials, and/or fact sheets on animal food sampling and analysis methods. Further, the participant will be part of a Team that conducts research with animal feed contaminants/hazards and who apply their scientific knowledge in deciding whether certain feed hazards require 1) more research to more completely understand their risk to animal and human health, 2) enhanced surveillance to identify points where controls can be exercised to reduce exposure to threats to animal and human health, and 3) increased outreach to the animal feed manufacturers and animal producers to ensure they comprehend their roles in ensuring their feed and food products are safe. VIEW/APPLY

FDA Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | Silver Springs, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED

This project investigates multiple patient factors, alone or in concert, and their effect on drug disposition (for example: age, gender, genetics, organ dysfunction, drug-drug interactions, etc). Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will learn about policy evaluations that will advance new drug development and promote therapeutic individualization. The participant will engage with the mentor in regulatory science research efforts to support development of both scientific and regulatory policy for the Office of Clinical Pharmacology. Activities may include literature review, analysis of existing and proposed policy, and/or construction of a knowledge base to store research data and inform further investigations. VIEW/APPLY

FDA Postgraduate Data Science Fellowship
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | College Park, MD | MONTHLY STIPEND PROVIDED

Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will learn about the types of information required to assess the safety of substances added to, or that come into contact with food. The participant will also learn what types of data and data sources are used by the agency to assess the safety of substances added to food. The participant will observe how to architect, develop and construct an operational data store to be used for advanced analytics. The participant will get hands-on experience with how to develop a data product that utilizes data housed in the knowledge base. VIEW/APPLY

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Academic Job Vacancies at Engineeroxy

Engineeroxy.com has released the newest edition of their specialized newsletter including your academic and research job vacancies in schools of engineering and technology recently posted at Engineeroxy.com worldwide. Specific postings have been listed below

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FACULTY POSITIONS IN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITIES

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PolytechnicPositions is a leading provider of higher education jobs for engineering and technology, which range from senior executive roles through to academic posts and research related positions, with over 1,200,000 faculty and researchers receiving specialized newsletters each week and over 1,000 academic clients posting jobs each year.

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Dissertation Defense: Randy T. Ganye

Title: High Wave vector acoustic metamaterials: Fundamental studies and applications

Committee Members

  • Professor Miao Yu, Chair
  • Professor Amr Baz
  • Professor Balakumar Balachandran
  • Professor Sarah Bergbreiter
  • Professor Timothy Horiuchi, Dean’s Representative

Date & Time: Wednesday, May 27th at 10:30 AM

Abstract: Acoustic metamaterials are artificially engineered structures with subwavelength unit cells that hold extraordinary acoustic properties. Their ability to manipulate acoustic waves in ways that are not readily possible in naturally occurring materials have garnered much attention from researchers in recent years. In this dissertation work, acoustic metamaterials that enable wave propagation with high wave vector values are studied. These materials render several key properties including energy confinement and transport, wave control enhancement, and enhancement of acoustic radiation, which are exploited for enhancing acoustic wave emission and reception.

The dissertation work is summarized as follows: First, to enable experimental studies of the deep subwavelength cavities in these metamaterials, a low dimensional fiber-optic probe was developed, which allows direct characterization of the intrinsic properties of the metamaterials without seriously disrupting the acoustic fields. Second, low dimensional acoustic metamaterials for enhancing acoustic reception were realized and studied. These metamaterials were demonstrated to achieve both passive and active functionalities including passive signal amplification and frequency filtering, as well as active tuning for switching and pulse retardation control. Third, a metamaterial emitter was realized and studied, which is capable of enhancing the radiative properties of an embedded emitter. Parametric studies enhanced the understanding of the effects of different geometric parameters on the radiation performance of the structure. Finally, the metamaterial emitter and receiver were combined to form a metamaterial-based sonar system. For the first time, the superior performance of the metamaterial enhanced sonar system over conventional sonar systems was analytically and experimentally demonstrated. As a proof of concept, a sonar robotic platform equipped with the metamaterial system was shown to
possess remarkably better tracking performance compared to the conventional system.

Through this dissertation work, an enhanced understanding of high-k acoustic metamaterials has been achieved and their applications in acoustic sensing, emission enhancement, and sonar systems have been demonstrated.

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Thesis Defense: Sara Lyons

Title: A Probabilistic Risk Assessment Based Approach to Understanding and Managing the Risks of Natural Gas Distribution Piping in the United States

Author: Sara Lyons

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Mohammad Modarres (Chair),
  • Dr. Katrina Groth,
  • Dr. Jeffrey Herrmann

Date & Time: Fri May 22, 2020 1pm – 2:45pm Eastern Time

Abstract: Two hundred sixty-nine regulated pipeline system accidents caused fatalities and/or injuries in the United States between 2010 and 2018, resulting in 106 fatalities and 599 injuries requiring hospitalization.  About 84% of these serious accidents occurred on gas distribution systems, which primarily transport natural gas.  This study utilizes probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methods, nationwide gas distribution system information, and operator reported accident data to evaluate natural gas distribution system risks, estimate how many additional resources the public would be willing to dedicate to reduce or eliminate these risks, and determine which improvement areas warrant further evaluation.  Recommendations regarding the overall PRA-based framework, as well as the scope, quality, and level of detail of the underlying data, are provided.

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University jobs in Mechanical Engineering, and other related areas

This month’s issue of AcademicKeys’ e-Flier for Engineering features 53 higher education positions in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Engineering Mechanics, and more. Please visit the AcademicKeys Website for more information and application procedures.

Dean, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The University of Texas at DallasLocation Dallas, TX, United States
School of Natural Sciences and MathematicsPosted Apr. 15, 2020
Associate Vice President for Development
University of IdahoLocation Moscow, ID, United States
Posted Mar. 12, 2020
Chair, Engineering Technology – 6101
Northern Illinois UniversityLocation DeKalb, IL, United States
College of Eng & Eng TechPosted Feb. 26, 2020

NEW! – Engineering Science Professor and Program Director
Howard Payne UniversityLocation Brownwood, TX, United States
Engineering SciencePosted Apr. 23, 2020
Lecture Pool – Mechanical Engineering – College of Engr.
University of California BerkeleyLocation Berkeley, CA, United States
Posted Apr. 16, 2020
Professor of Practice
Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarLocation Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
RecruitmentPosted Apr. 9, 2020
Faculty Positions in Design
Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarLocation Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Design and Innovation Center (DIC)Posted Apr. 9, 2020
Faculty Positions in Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarLocation Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Apr. 9, 2020
Faculty Positions in Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarLocation Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Civil EngineeringPosted Apr. 9, 2020
Faculty Positions in Materials Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarLocation Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
VariousPosted Apr. 9, 2020
Faculty Positions in Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarLocation Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Electrical EngineeringPosted Apr. 9, 2020
Part-Time Instructor, Physics
North Carolina A & T State UniversityLocation Greensboro, NC, United States
Temporary EmploymentPosted Apr. 3, 2020
Full-Time Tenure-Track /Assistant Prof. /EE Communication…
Howard UniversityLocation Washington, D.C., United States
College of Engineering and ArchitecturePosted Mar. 27, 2020
Aerospace Engineer 2 (7115U),Space Sci. Laboratory – 6690
University of California BerkeleyLocation Berkeley, CA, United States
Posted Mar. 19, 2020
POOL – Lecturer – Engineering and Project Management
University of KansasLocation Lawrence, KS, United States
Engineering and Project MgmtPosted Mar. 18, 2020
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Norwich UniversityLocation Northfield, VT, United States
David Crawford School of EngineeringPosted Mar. 11, 2020
Instructor – Freshman Engineering Program
The University of AlabamaLocation Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Engineering Student Services – InstructionPosted Mar. 4, 2020
Assistant in Research
Florida State UniversityLocation Tallahassee, FL, United States
The Center for Advanced Power SystemsPosted Mar. 4, 2020
Assistant or Associate Professor – Computational Mechanics
North Carolina A & T State UniversityLocation Greensboro, NC, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Mar. 3, 2020
Assistant/Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
North Carolina A & T State UniversityLocation Greensboro, NC, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Mar. 3, 2020
Clinical Asst/Assoc Professor
University of North TexasLocation Denton, TX, United States
UNT-Engineering Technology-130350Posted Mar. 2, 2020
Adjunct of Physics & Astronomy
St. Edward’s UniversityLocation Austin, TX, United States
PhysicsPosted Mar. 2, 2020
Open Rank Prof. – Energy Sys. & Molecular Modeling of…
University of VirginiaLocation Charlottesville, VA, United States
Chemical EngineeringPosted Feb. 25, 2020
Senior Lecturer
Lawrence Technological UniversityLocation Southfield, MI, United States
Electrical and Computer EngineeringPosted Feb. 21, 2020
Research Asst. Professor, Multiple Positions, Non-tenure …
The University of AlabamaLocation Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Feb. 21, 2020
Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology – 27285
Northern Illinois UniversityLocation DeKalb, IL, United States
Engineering TechnologyPosted Feb. 26, 2020
Assistant Professor, Mechatronics Engineering – 38794
Northern Illinois UniversityLocation DeKalb, IL, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Feb. 26, 2020
Assoc. or Full Professor, Tenure Stream, Faculty Opening;…
University of PittsburghLocation Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Chemical and Petroleum EngineeringPosted Feb. 18, 2020
Mechanical Engineering Tenure-Track Faculty Position
City College of the City University of New YorkLocation NY, NY, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Feb. 13, 2020
Clinical Asst/Assoc Professor
University of North TexasLocation Denton, TX, United States
UNT-Engineering Technology-130350Posted Feb. 11, 2020
Assistant, Associate Or Full Professor Faculty Opportunity
Medical College of WisconsinLocation Milwaukee, WI, United States
Joint Department of Biomedical EngineeringPosted Feb. 6, 2020
Lecturer Pool – Jacobs Inst. for Design Innovation – Coll…
University of California BerkeleyLocation Berkeley, CA, United States
Posted Feb. 4, 2020
Lecturer Pool – Jacobs Inst. for Design Innovation – Coll…
University of California BerkeleyLocation Berkeley, CA, United States
Posted Feb. 4, 2020
Tenure-Track Faculty
The University of ToledoLocation Toledo, OH, United States
Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing EngineeringPosted Jan. 23, 2020
Assist Professors in Dept. of Civil, Construction, & Envi…
San Diego State UniversityLocation San Diego, CA, United States
Civil, Construction and Environmental EngineeringPosted Jan. 17, 2020
Tenure Track Faculty Position
Clarkson UniversityLocation Potsdam, NY, United States
Mechanical & Aeronautical EngineeringPosted Dec. 24, 2019
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee, ChattanoogaLocation Chattanooga, TN, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Dec. 18, 2019
Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
Temple UniversityLocation Philadelphia, PA, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Dec. 3, 2019
Adjunct Instructor – Engineering Technology
University of North TexasLocation Denton, TX, United States
Department of Engineering TechnologyPosted Aug. 5, 2019
Adjunct Instructor
University of North TexasLocation Denton, TX, United States
Department of Mechanical and Energy EngineeringPosted Jul. 12, 2019
NEW! – Postdoctoral Fellow – Hydrologic Modeling
University of IdahoLocation Moscow, ID, United States
Posted May. 7, 2020
Post-Doc Positions – Multiple Openings
The University of AlabamaLocation Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
College of EngineeringPosted Apr. 3, 2020
Grad. Assistantship Positions in Architectural Engineering
The Pennsylvania State UniversityLocation University Park, PA, United States
Department of Architectural EngineeringPosted Mar. 13, 2020
Postdoctoral Research Assoc
University of North TexasLocation Denton, TX, United States
UNT-Mechanical & Energy Engineer-130340Posted Mar. 2, 2020
Postdoctoral Research Assoc
University of North TexasLocation Denton, TX, United States
UNT-Mechanical & Energy Engineer-130340Posted Feb. 26, 2020
Water Quality Modeler
The Water Institute of the GulfLocation Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Coastal EcologyPosted Feb. 24, 2020
Asst. Professor, Mech. Engr. (Manufacturing Processes) – …
Northern Illinois UniversityLocation DeKalb, IL, United States
Mechanical EngineeringPosted Feb. 26, 2020
Postdoctoral Research Assoc
University of North TexasLocation Denton, TX, United States
UNT-Ctr Agile & Adaptive Add. Mfg-190405Posted Feb. 11, 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher
City College of the City University of New YorkLocation New York, NY, United States
Chemical EngineeringPosted Feb. 10, 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher
City College of the City University of New YorkLocation New York, NY, United States
Chemical EngineeringPosted Feb. 10, 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher
Colorado State UniversityLocation Fort Collins, CO, United States
Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentPosted Nov. 4, 2019
Post Doc Research Associate, Engineering Education
North Carolina A & T State UniversityLocation Greensboro, NC, United States
Chemical Biological & BioengineeringPosted Oct. 29, 2019
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Dissertation Defense: Amin Aria

Title: Cost-effective Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Locally Damaged Pipelines with High Confidence Level  

Committee Members:

Dr. Mohammad Modarres, Advisor and Chair.
Dr. Shapour Azarm, Co-advisor
Dr. Balakumar Balachandran 
Dr. Mark Fuge
Dr. Katrina Groth
Dr. Kayo Ide, Dean’s Representative
Dr. Vasiliy Krivtso

Date & Time: Friday, June 5, 2020. 2:00-4:00 PM

Abstract: Localized pipeline damages, caused by degradation processes such as corrosion, are prominent, can result in pipeline failure and are expensive to monitor. To prevent pipeline failure, many Prognostics and Health Monitoring (PHM) approaches have been developed in which sensor network for online, and human inspection for offline data gathering are separately used. In this dissertation, a two-level (segment- and integrated-level) PHM approach for locally damaged pipelines is proposed where both of these degradation data gathering schemes (i.e., detection methods) are considered simultaneously. The segment-level approach, in which the damage behavior is considered to be uniform, consists of a static and a dynamic phase. In the static phase, a new optimization problem for health monitoring layout design of locally damaged pipelines is formulated. The solution to this problem is an optimal configuration (or layout) of degradation detection methods with a minimized health monitoring cost and a maximized likelihood of damage detection. In the dynamic phase, considering the optimal layout, an online fusion of high-frequency sensors data and low-frequency inspection information is conducted to estimate and then update the pipeline’s Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimate. Subsequently, the segment-level optimization formulation is modified to improve its scalability and facilitate updating layouts considering the online RUL estimates. Finally, at the integrated-level, the modified segment-level approach is used along with Stochastic Dynamic Programming (SDP) to produce an optimal set of layouts for a long pipeline consisting of multiple segments with different damage behavior.

Experimental data and several notional examples are used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approaches. Synthetically generated damage data are used in two examples to demonstrate that the proposed segment-level layout optimization approach results in a more robust solution compared to single-detection approaches and deterministic methods. For the dynamic segment-level phase, acoustic emission sensor signals and microscopic images from a set of fatigue crack experiments are considered to show that combining sensor- and image-based damage size estimates leads to accuracy improvements in RUL estimation. Lastly, using synthetically generated damage data for three hypothetical pipeline segments, it is shown that the constructed integrated-level approach provides an optimal set of layouts for several pipeline segments.

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Upcoming Thesis Defense: Samuel Denker

Title: Design and Analysis of a Novel, Ultra-Light, Cyrogenic Dewar for Balloon-Borne Observatories

Author: Samuel Denker

Date & Time: May 26, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Committee: Professor Marino DiMarzo, Chair
Professor Jungho Kim
Research Professor Yunho Hwang
Dr. Alan Kogut (outside scientist)

Abstract: The deployment of cryogenic Dewars aboard high-altitude balloons is critical to astronomical observation at sub-millimeter wavelengths. Balloon-borne, cryogenically cooled telescopes are limited in size by weight restrictions of the balloons, which is dominated by the Dewars. This thesis presents a portion of the multi-phase BOBCAT project which reduces Dewar weight with the use of thin-walled designs and a novel multi-layer insulation (MLI) system. The BOBCAT-1 mission used conventional Dewar technology to demonstrate cryogen transfer at float altitude and establish baseline thermal performance of balloon-borne Dewars. Design and assembly of the BOBCAT-2 ultra-light Dewar showed successful fabrication of the thin-walled vessel and novel MLI system. Thermal modeling predicts that the BOBCAT-2 Dewar will experience an order of magnitude increase in heat transfer through the MLI, equivalent to a 60% increase through the Dewar in total, due to its larger volume and decreased number of radiation shields relative to the BOBCAT-1 Dewar.

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New Career Opportunities at AKTECH.tech – May 2020

AKATECH has updated their database some of the current job openings across the globe in the field of Computer Science and Engineering. For more information on these postings, click here.

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Science Career Path: Job Opportunities, Tips & Advice – May 2020

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has released its May 2020 Science Magazine, which features job opportunities, career articles, tips, etc. Below is a snapshot of a few of the job opportunities that the website offers. Please be sure to visit the website to learn more!

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JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 

Research Associate 
Chemitope Glycopeptide | New York 
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Research Specialist – Pathology 
University of Illinois at Chicago | Illinois 
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Senior Research Assistant 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Texas 
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Post doctoral biomedical research scientist 
Roskamp Institute | Florida 
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Assistant/Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Tenure Stream) 
Dalhousie University | Canada 
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Tenure-Track Position in Lung Extracellular Matrix Biology 
NIH/NIEHS (Natl Inst of Environmental Health Sci) | North Carolina 
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Staff Scientist – Lymphoma Translational Research 
City of Hope | California 
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Executive Officer 
Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation | Virginia 
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Division Chief for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 
University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Children’s Hospital | Washington State 
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JOBS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND REST OF WORLD 

PhD position (m/f/d) Benthic-pelagic particle dynamics and solute fluxes in permeable sediment 
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) | Germany 
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Biostatistician – Radiation Effects Research Foundation 
The National Academy of Sciences | Japan 
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Postdoctoral scientist in bioinformatics of bacteria-phage interactions 
Jagiellonian University | Poland 
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Immunology Sales Specialist 
ProImmune Ltd. | United Kingdom 
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Immunology Faculty Position at National Taiwan University 
National Taiwan University | Taiwan 

Head of Metabolomics Facility at CeMM, Vienna 
CeMM | Austria 
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Faculty Position 
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong 
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Faculty Position in Soil System Science at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne 
EPFL | Switzerland 
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Post-doc Position | Neural and Intelligence Engineering Center, ISTBI,Fudan Univerisity 
Institute of Science and Tenchology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University | China 
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Dissertation Defense: Tianchen Liu

Title: Co-design for Multi-subsystem and Vehicle Routing-and-Control Problems

Author: Tianchen Liu

Date & Time: Friday, May 15, 2020 – 2:00PM.

Committee:

Professor Shapour Azarm, Chair/Advisor

Professor Nikhil Chopra, Co-advisor

Professor Balakumar Balachandran

Professor Jin-Oh Hahn

Professor Nuno Martins

Professor Miao Yu

Abstract: Co-design refers to the process of integrating optimization of the physical design with a controller for a system. The challenge in co-design is that the optimization is simultaneously applied to both time-invariant (design) and time-variant (state and control) variables, which can be coupled with each other.

The objective of this dissertation is to explore new formulations and approaches in co-design for multi-subsystem and vehicle routing-and-control problems. Specically, four research questions are considered and resolved. In Research Question 1 (RQ1), the critical issue is how to formulate a class of multi-subsystem co-design problems with convexphysical design subproblems and linear quadratic regulator control subproblems, and construct a decentralized solution approach for such problems. In Research Question 2 (RQ2), solution methods for a broader class of multi-subsystem co-design problems than those considered in RQ1 are investigated. In Research Question 3 (RQ3), the question is whether, in the context of co-design, the combined routing and control costs of a feet of vehicles can be improved if optimal control is introduced into the routing. Finally, an extension of RQ3 is considered in Research Question 4 (RQ4), where the possibility of constructing an integrated vehicle routing-and-control problem with load-dependent dynamics is investigated.

Beyond the articles published by the author of this dissertation, the proposed research questions, models and methods presented have not been considered elsewhere in the literature.

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5/8/20 Thesis Defense: Devashis Shrestha

Title: “Energy Audit and Modeling of High Energy-consuming Buildings in the University of Maryland.” 

Date/Time: Friday May 8, 2020; 3-5pm

Committee Members:  

Dr. Michael Ohadi (Chair),

Dr. Yunho Hwang,

Dr. Bao Yang

Abstract: The goal of this thesis project is to analyze and optimize energy usage in the Biopsychology building and Gossett Football House building. Both buildings are located on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The process of energy audit and modeling was applied to both buildings to render them more energy-efficient and sustainable. The first step of the project included a comprehensive study of the buildings including the HVAC systems and other loads, followed by energy consumption analysis which led to the detection of various issues. The second step was to model the energy system of the building and analyze it to optimize the energy consumption of the building. Several benchmarking methods were also analyzed to evaluate building performance. Using the developed 3D model, the performances of the buildings were simulated to determine various Energy Conservation Measures. The Energy Conservation Measures were detected, researched in detail, and simulated to evaluate the possible savings in energy and utilities. Projected savings of $99,920 and 3,843.3 MMBtu per annum were projected for the two buildings. In addition to the energy savings, a total of 511.3 MT per annum CO2 emission reductions and 787,290-gal water savings were estimated, which can both contribute to the Campus sustainability goals.

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NASA/GSFB Research Opportunity for Graduate Students

The CRESST II Graduate Student Interaction Day is an annual event that brings together NASA scientists and graduate students to discuss opportunities to collaborate. Under normal conditions, the event would be held at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and include presentations about current NASA research projects and a poster session to allow students and scientists to talk one-on-one about specific research opportunities. Though the COVID-19 pandemic has made an in-person event no longer feasible, CRESST II has collaborated with NASA scientists to organize several research opportunities available to highly-talented and skilled graduate students looking to gain research experience or contribute to their thesis/dissertation research.

Available opportunities span a variety of research areas and are described in more detail below. Each opportunity description includes the NASA scientist who will serve as the mentor, the sponsor’s areas of expertise, details about the work the graduate student would be performing, skills required for the position, and the general timeframe when a graduate student could start. Preliminarily, work may start virtually but could transition to more onsite work at NASA/GSFC based on each mentors needs and the status of the GSFC campus. Funding is available for most of the opportunities and will be discussed during the offer process.

Currently Available Opportunities:

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy – Tim Livengood

X-ray Observations of Accreting Neutron Stars – Peter Bult

High-energy Astrophysical Processes in the Crab Nebula – Elizabeth Hays

Gamma-ray Astrophysics and/or Cubesats – Jeremy Perkins

Analysis of X-ray and Gamma-ray Binaries – Robin Corbet

X-ray Studies of Normal Galaxies – Ann Hornschemeier

Cosmology and Submillimeter Astrophysics – Alan Kogut

Application Details: If you are interested in applying to any of the opportunities listed below, complete and submit the official application form along with the following documents: curriculum vitae, essay, college transcript, and the contact information for two references.

Applications should be sent via email to the CRESST II Program Associate, Katherine McKee (katherine.s.mckee@nasa.gov), and are due by May 15th. After May 15th, mentors will review all applications and then contact a shortlist of candidates to discuss the opportunity in more detail. Offers will be made on a rolling basis at the mentors discretion. Any questions should be directed to the CRESST II Program Associate.

Deadline: The Deadline to apply for the program is May 31, 2020

For more information regarding this opportunity, as well as detailed descriptions of the opportunities, please visit the posting’s webpage.

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Scholarship Opportunity with Kurz Industrial Solutions

Applications Due: May 15, 2021

KURZ is awarding (4) $1,000 scholarships to four candidates willing to propel the growth of Wind in the states for generations to come.

View More Here: https://kurz.com/kurz-wind-scholarship/

SHOULD I APPLY?

You are passionate and invested in wind energy.  You believe in the importance of renewable energy for our present and our future.  You’ve decided to make the commitment to innovation, excellence, and technological advancement. Whether you’re climbing wind turbines or developing better software monitoring systems for renewable resources, we want you to have every possible opportunity to further your education and become a leader in the energy evolution. The recipients of this scholarship will have the utmost expectations of pushing their peers, professors, and programs to continuously improve and accelerate the advancements in wind.

SCHOLARSHIP GUIDELINES

Our ideal candidate will have enthusiasm, strong leadership skills, integrity, and a demonstrated commitment of growing Renewable Energy in their communities. High school students, college students, and non-traditional students from anywhere within the U.S. that have been accepted or enrolled in an accredited university are free to apply.  We want you to be rewarded for the tremendous work you’re willing to invest in wind and renewable energy.

To be eligible, you must be studying within the Renewable Energy field and have at least a 3.0 GPA. Must also be currently enrolled as a rising sophomore (junior or senior for 2+ year programs), or a graduate student. Additionally, this scholarship is open to those enrolled in specific technical certification programs.

HOW TO ENTER

Submit a video (up to one minute) answering the question:What does Renewable Energy mean to you? Our scholarship deadline is May 15, 2021. 

To submit your application, fill out the application submission form by clicking below along with uploading your video.  (Hint: We also love hearing about your long-term career goals!). Also, feel free to post to your Instagram or Facebook and tagging Kurz Industrial Solutions. Find our Facebook page and our Instagram page here.

In the beginning of your video, each contestant must state his or her name, what their field of study is, and what school they attend before answering the question. Kurz will select two scholarship winners, which will be announced June 1, 2021 via our social media platforms and we’ll also email the winners to let them know.

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 Course Announcement Fall 2024: Operations Research Models in Engineering (ENME 741/ENRE 648E)

A survey of the fundamentals of operations research models and methods in engineering including: optimization using linear programming, nonlinear programming, integer programming, as well as equilibrium/game theory via mixed complementarity problems. Examples of specialized course items include: specifics of optimizing power and gas networks, discussion of other network optimization problems, resource-constrained problems, two-level optimization as an example of mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) programming problems as well as algorithms to solve the above types of problems.

This class will be offered on Tuesdays from 9:30am-12:00 noon with online sessions as well. The ENME 741 course website:

 http://stevenagabriel.umd.edu/Teaching/enme741/index.html.

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 Course Announcement Fall 2024: Design and Fabrication of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (ENEE605)

Course Description:

ENEE605 is a multidisciplinary graduate course ideal for incoming first/second year graduate students (and senior undergrads) that covers fundamental design and fabrication aspects of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). For the past 10 years the course has focused on applications related to the monitoring or treatment of human health issues, and will continue this year by addressing health grand challenges. Students will be introduced to miniaturized sensors and actuators through a combination of lectures, literature/case studies, homework assignments, and a semester-long group design project. Classic MEMS examples such as accelerometers for crash detection in vehicles, pressure sensors for implantable medical devices, arrays of miniature mirrors for projection displays, and systems for biochemical detection will be reviewed. Through a group project, students will apply and expand their knowledge by designing a novel microsystem for implementation in the human body. This field is only recently being discovered for engineering solutions – examples of existing devices include ingestible capsules with cameras for video endoscopy, fluorescent sensors for monitoring gastrointestinal bleeding, or thermally-actuated microgrippers for tissue biopsy. At the end of the course, the students will have gained an understanding of the benefits of MEMS devices, of common design and fabrication methods, and of opportunities in applying technological solutions to fields outside their main area of expertise.

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Irwin Centennial Research Committee Travel Awards Nominations Open

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UPCOMING THESIS DEFENSE: MATTHEW KEELER

Author: Matthew Keeler

Title: DESIGN NOVELTY EVALUATION THROUGH ORDINAL EMBEDDING: COMPARISON OF NOVELTY AND TRIPLET ERRORS

Date/time: April 19th at 12:00pm

Location: 2164 DeWALT Seminar Room, Glenn L. Martin Hall.

Committee members:
Professor Mark D. Fuge, Chair/Advisor
Professor Shapour Azarm
Professor Nikhil Chopra

Abstract:
A practical and well-studied method for computing the novelty of a design is to construct an ordinal embedding via a collection of pairwise comparisons between items (called triplets), and use distances within that embedding to compute which designs are farthest from the center. Unfortunately, ordinal embedding methods can require a large number of triplets before their primary error measure—the triplet violation error—converges. But if our goal is accurate novelty estimation, is it really necessary to fully minimize all triplet violations? Can we extract useful information regarding the novelty of all or some items using fewer triplets than classical convergence rates might imply? This thesis addresses this question by studying the relationship between triplet violation error and novelty score error when using ordinal embeddings.

We find that estimating the novelty of a set of items via ordinal embedding can require significantly fewer human provided triplets than is needed to converge the triplet error, and that this effect is modulated by the type of triplet sampling method (random versus uncertainty sampling). Having learned this, we propose the use of a custom metric we call the ‘Expected Model Change’ (EMC) which we use to observe when novelty information in the embedding has stopped updating under newly labeled triplets, so that conservative bounding functions need not be used. Moreover, to avoid the dangers of low accuracy in selecting the dimension of the ordinal embedding, we propose use of the Expected Model Change for tuning the embedding dimension to an appropriate value. In this framework, we explore the convergence properties of ordinal embeddings reconstructed from triplets taken from a variety of synthetic and real-world design spaces.

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UPCOMING THESIS DEFENSE: CASHEN DINIZ

Author: Cashen Diniz

Title: Denoising the Design Space: Diffusion Models for Accelerated Airfoil Shape Optimization

Date/time: April 16th at 9:30am

Location: 2164 DeWALT Seminar Room, Glenn L. Martin Hall.

Committee members:
Professor Mark D. Fuge, Chair/Advisor
Professor James Baeder
Professor Michael Otte

Abstract:

Generative models offer the possibility to accelerate and potentially substitute parts of the often expensive traditional design optimization process. We present Aero-DDM, a novel application of a latent denoising diffusion model (DDM) capable of generating airfoil geometries conditioned on flow parameters and an area constraint. Additionally, we create a novel, diverse dataset of optimized airfoil designs that better reflects a realistic design space than has been done in previous work. Aero-DDM is applied to this dataset, and key metrics are assessed both statistically and with an open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver to determine the performance of the generated designs. We compare our approach to an optimal transport GAN, and demonstrate that our model can generate designs with superior performance statistically, in aerodynamic benchmarks, and in warm-start scenarios. We also extend our diffusion model approach, and demonstrate that the number of steps required for inference can be reduced by as much as ~86%, compared to an optimized version of the baseline inference process, without meaningful degradation in design quality, simply by using the initial design to start the denoising process.

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Defenses

UPCOMING THESIS DEFENSE: ANTHONY FABBRI

Author: Anthony Fabbri

Title of dissertation: Second Wave Mechanics

Date/time: April 16th, 2024 at 2:00pm

Location: 2162 DeWALT Conference Room, Glenn L. Martin Hall.

Committee members:

  • Dr. Jeffrey Herrmann, Advisor and Chair
  • Dr. Cole Miller
  • Dr. Yi Xu

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic experienced very well-documented “waves” of the virus’ progression, which can be analyzed to predict future wave
behavior. Common wave shape patterns can be identified in real-time
data, to predict the pattern of mutations that have recently occurred,
but have not become popularly known as yet, to predict the remaining
future outcome of the wave. By only considering the patterns in the
data that could possibly have acted in tandem to generate the observed
results, many false patterns can be eliminated, and, therefore, hidden
variables can be estimated to a very high degree of probability.
Similar mathematical relationships can reveal hidden variables in
other underlying differential equations.

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UPCOMING THESIS DEFENSE: MATTHEW WEINER

Author: Matthew Weiner

Title of dissertation: A Framework For Remaining Useful Life Prediction and Optimization For Complex Engineering Systems

Date/time: April 15th, 2024 at 10:00am

Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6365088363

Location: 2164 DeWALT Conference Room, Glenn L. Martin Hall.

Committee members:

  • Dr. Shapour Azarm, Advisor and Chair
  • Dr. Katrina Groth, Co-Advisor
  • Dr. Yunfei Zhao

Abstract:

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Announcements

Special Lecture: Digital models, scientific machine learning, and digital twins


Title: Digital models, scientific machine learning, and digital twins: a virtuous interplay between data-driven algorithms and physics-inspired numerical models.

When: Spring 2024 ; Wednesdays from 12 till 2pm in MATH 3206

Instructor: Alfio Quarteroni

Abstract: Problem setting is a critical precursor to problem solving. It involves the art of formulating the right problem statement. The importance of this phase is underscored by the fact that without a well-defined problem, finding the right tools and techniques for problem solution becomes a cumbersome and often futile endeavor. This transition from problem setting to problem solving is integral to the larger paradigm of knowledge development. While AI tools have made tremendous strides in recent years, they remain dependent on the foundation laid by human intelligence. Mathematicians, with their ability to discern patterns and relationships, data, and variables, play a vital role in this stage.


In this course, I will introduce basic mathematical concepts from both traditional machine learning and scientific machine learning. Scientific machine learning, which integrates data-driven machine learning algorithms with physics-based digital models, provides an ideal platform for the virtuous merging of problem setting and problem solving, facilitated by a profound domain knowledge. During the course, the reference application will focus on the development of a mathematical simulator for the cardiac function.

Dr. Alfio Quarternori will join the UMD Math Department for two months in Spring 24 as a visiting professor. Alfio is a distinguished mathematician, working in the area of mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, scientific computing, and applications to fluid mechanics, geophysics, biomechanics, medicine, and structural analysis. Alfio is the author of 24 books and author of more than 400 papers. Throughout his career, he has received many awards, including membership in 9 Academies, a plenary speaker at the ICM (2006), and the Lagrange Prize (2023) – awarded to one mathematician every four years.

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Jobs/Internships

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity in Thermal Metrology Development for Semiconductor Materials at NIST

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Nuclear Engineer at Global Technology Connection Inc. (GTC) Nuclear Engineer at

Global Technology Connection is looking for a dynamic Nuclear Engineer to join our forward-thinking team, someone who is passionate about nuclear engineering and has a solid grounding in Bayesian inference, ideally with particle filtering. If you’re someone who dabbles in machine learning and is excited about applying these skills in the nuclear engineering field, we want to hear from you!

What we’re looking for:

· Expertise in Nuclear Engineering, 🛠️ preferably holding a PhD degree in Nuclear Engineering or a related field. 🎓

· Proficiency in Bayesian Inference, particularly Particle Filtering 📊

· Knowledge of Machine Learning techniques is a significant plus 🤖

· Preferably a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder

· Python Proficiency: Strong coding skills in Python

This is an excellent opportunity for individuals looking to substantially impact their field, working on cutting-edge projects that blend traditional engineering with modern computational techniques. We’re offering a vibrant working environment, a culture of innovation, and the chance to work with a talented team dedicated to pioneering advancements in the industry.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and meet the qualifications mentioned, we’d love to discuss how you can significantly contribute to our team.

 Apply Now: Please send your resume and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and why you’re a good fit for this role to admin@globaltechinc.com.