Category: Collaborations
Undergraduates: Research@BU and Helsinki
The Mechanics of Slender Structures (MOSS) research laboratory is recruiting an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student for a research project on shell structures. Requirements:
- Mechanical Engineering major in good academic standing and in their in their Junior or Senior year.
- Research commitment of 8-12 hours per week during the Spring 2015 semester.
- Willingness to participate in a paid Summer Internship at the Aalto Science Institute in Helsinki, Finland during the Summer of 2015.
- Internships run from June 1 — August 31 (dates are flexible).
- Salary of about €1600 per month, depending on experience, plus travel reimbursement.
- Additional information can be found at: http://theran.lt/2015/asci-interns/.
This unique opportunity is open for a highly qualified undergraduate student. Please send your rèsumè to dpholmes@bu.edu by Wednesday, January 28th, 2015.
Welcoming Matteo Pezzulla
The MOSS lab welcomes Matteo Pezzulla, a visiting Ph.D. student from Università di Roma, Sapienza. Matteo is a graduate student studying the mechanics of solids and structures with his Ph.D. advisor, Paola Nardinocchi (Web). Professor Nardinocchi's research covers a wide range of topics within the area of Soft, Active Materials (SAM), and Matteo's interests lie in the mechanics of swelling thin plates. Thin structures that swell undergo large geometrically nonlinear deformations, and the focus of Matteo's four month visit will be to develop an experimental system whose general features can be described using techniques from differential geometry, and verified through computational modeling.
