Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University

Faculty Openings – Three Tenure-Track Positions, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University The Mechanical Engineering Department at Northwestern University invites applications to fill three tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level. All three positions are newly created to address the strategic priority in Embodied AI, cross-cutting all three major disciplines in the department, (i.e., Robotics & Biosystems, Design & Manufacturing, and Mechanics & Materials). View the full announcements at https://lnkd.in/gyXcDRsy 1. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Embodied Artificial Intelligence (joint ME and CS) 2. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Statistical Machine Learning, AI, and Decision Sciences for Manufacturing Systems (joint ME and IEMS) 3. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Mechanics (ME)

Here is a our new publication on Extreme Mechanics Letters presenting emergent elasticity relations for magnetic bars that self-assemble into lattice structures through harnessing random vibrations. Congratulations Xinyan Yang!

The Mechanical Engineering department at Northwestern University is announcing a search for sponsored?projects?for our senior-year capstone course in product design and engineering. This course takes place during the Winter & Spring quarters at Northwestern (January – June 2024), during which teams of 6-8 senior students undertake?projects?exploring product development, including user needs identification, specification development, creative concept ideation, detailed engineering analysis & concept evaluation, and fabrication of various fidelity prototypes, concluding with a final Alpha-level functional prototype. The ideal?project?for this course is: o Innovative – No obvious solution exists, and will challenge students to research the user and explore various solutions. o Decomposable – The?project?is not limited to a single sub-discipline of mechanical engineering, but rather?calls?on as many areas as possible. o Feasible – Each team will be challenged to complete a functional, high-fidelity model by the end of 20 weeks. Submitted?projects?must be able to be completed within this time frame.? Linked below is a detailed call for projects, which includes short examples of past projects &?sponsorship?details.?In order to support the prototyping, testing, and iteration steps required to create a robust and reliable final product, we request that each?sponsor?provide?financial support of $9000?for each project sponsored. ME?398?Project Sponsorship Packet Northwestern?ME?398?- Course Webpage Sponsoring?a?project?presents the opportunity to tap the resources of our department, including our world-renowned faculty and resources (who advise on the?technical and academic integrity of their?projects)?, as well as an excellent opportunity to recruit graduating seniors over a long term?project. With a fresh set of eyes on a problem you may have, new paths and solutions often present themselves. Please contact Michael Beltran or Jeremy Keys if you have any questions, or if you would like to submit a?project?or referral, at?[email protected], or at?630-427-4613.?We request that a brief?project?description be submitted by December 2, 2023.