ESM’s 100th Year Anniversary Celebrated with a Garden
Honoring our department’s 100th year anniversary, Ms. Sally Shrader, ESM’s own in-house Master Gardener, has shown her green thumb by designing and tenderly caring for a lovely garden outside Norris Hall. Ms. Shrader headed more...
Lisa L. Smith receives the ESM Department Head's Award
In appreciation for her outstanding contribution to the department in which she exhibited commitment above and beyond her normal job expectations, ESM takes great pleasure in awarding Lisa L. Smith more...
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Mission Statement
The Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics provides a strong foundation and a sturdy framework for the discovery, development, transfer, and implementation of new knowledge in the areas of mechanics of materials and material systems, fluid mechanics, dynamics and vibration, biomechanics, and computational methods. The department is fully committed to providing an environment for strong undergraduate and graduate education that emphasizes fundamental understanding rather than specialization, high-quality teaching, innovation, frontier-level research, and service to the professional mechanics community.
Upcoming Seminars
Wed, Nov 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Torgersen Hall Museum (1100)
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Analytical Modeling and Experimental Validations
Mr. Alper Erturk
Wed, Nov 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Torgersen Hall Museum (1100)
Instabilities in shear and simple shear deformations of gold crystals
Mr. Alejandro Pacheco
Upcoming Defense
No PhD defenses currently scheduled.Upcoming Conferences
October 17-18 2008 Nanotechnology: Opportunities and Implications
June 24-29 2009
ESM Organizes The Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials.
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
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Phone: 540/231-6651
Fax: 540/231-4574
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