Positions Available in the SRL

Faculty Positions Available

[Info to be posted in the future.]

Student Positions Available

Professors in the SRL will be hiring Graduate Research Assistants for the Fall 2007 Semester.  (Information about research assistantships in Mechanical Engineering can be found here.)  Positions are currently open on the following projects:

1. Composition of Multi-disciplinary, Multi-scale Models for the Design of Fluid-Power Systems.
   Faculty Advisor: Dr. Chris Paredis
2. Evaluation of Air and Steam Handling Strategies and Technologies in Automotive Manufacturing.
   Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bert Bras
   
3. Decision Support for Improved Financial and Evironmental Performance of Product Leasing.
   Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bert Bras
4. Design and Implementation of Sustainable Mobility Hub Networks.
   Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bert Bras
5. Environmental Sourcing and Manufacturing Index.
   Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bert Bras
6. Truss Structure CAD Modeling and Manufacturing.
   Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Rosen
7. Mask Projection Stereolithography.
   Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Rosen

• Also check out GRA positions available at the SRL's new group at Georgia Tech's Savannah Campus.  Positions relate to a variety of Engineering Design topics, including:
• Development of design methodolgies
• Information systems in support of complex design activities
• Computational fluid dynamics

General expectations of students in the SRL

• The focus in the SRL is on Scholarship.  Our projects go beyond problem solving and instead focus on the generation of new knowledge based on scientific principles.
• Attendance at SRL meetings and at lab members' presentations.
• Completion of an application for the NSF graduate fellowship.  This is mandatory for those pursuing PhD degree; strongly encouraged for MS degree.

Classes SRL students commonly take

• ME6101 - Engineering Design
• ME6102 - Designing Open Engineering Systems
• ME6103 - Optimization in Engineering Design
• ME6104 - Computer-Aided Design
• ME6105 - Modeling and Simulation in Design
• ME7227 - Rapid Prototyping in Engineering
• See here for more.