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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University will be filling a faculty position during the coming year and is seeking outstanding faculty candidates who will challenge an exceptional student body and contribute to excellent research programs - details at yjobs.byu.edu.
BYU's Rocketry Team has become one of the top five finalists in Bayer's Annual Alka-Rocket Challenge! They will be competing to launch their chemical-reactant propelled rocket over 430 feet in the air...Hopefully breaking last year's Guinness World Record. They will also be competing for a chance to win $30,000. The Challenge will take place on December 12th at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Riley Meik, Mark Johnson, Alex Laraway and Zach Lawless built their launcher and projectile earlier this fall. In their tests, the projectile launched nearly 700 feet in the air...definitely…
Dr. Matthew S. Allen of University of Wisconsin-Madison will be speaking on Nov. 19th at 4:00pm in CB 256, as part of the Graduate Seminars. He will be addressing us on "Modern Challenges in Structural Dynamics and Recent Advances".
From satellites and launch vehicles, to concept hypersonic aircraft, to a human body in a full sprint, many structures are subjected to extreme dynamic environments. Structures need to be carefully designed to survive the dynamic loads that are present in these environments. This talk highlights the state of the art in the design and analysis of structures that…