Institute for Mechanics and Materials

加州大学圣地亚哥分校正在建立一个力学和材料研究所(IMM)，以整合力学和材料方面的研究和工业应用。该研究所将促进学术界、工业界和政府组织之间的跨学科交流和联系。主要活动将包括关于前沿和跨学科领域的短期课程；关于特定工业问题和创新材料的讲习班；以及来自政府实验室和工业组织的研究生、博士后研究员、教员以及科学家和工程师的中短期访问。研究所本身不会进行广泛的研究项目，但将致力于作为一个智力论坛，在确定新的研究领域或方法时促进研究小组的形成。这将包括材料开发、合成和加工的新技术；性能-微结构关系的表征和识别；基于物理的微观机械和计算建模；用于非线性响应和失效分析的本构关系；以及完整结构实体的设计和性能分析。将在智囊团式的研讨会上讨论及时的主题，这些研讨会还将用于定期评估力学、材料科学和工程学的长期目标。由杰出的资深科学家和工程师组成的外部理事会将通过行动小组委员会指导研究所的活动，并定期评估研究所的进展情况。该研究所的教育努力将包括学术界、工业界和政府(包括国内和国际)的各级工程师和科学家；以及在任何有兴趣的地方，在全国范围内向高中生及其教师开展强有力的外联计划，有意努力接触少数族裔和代表性不足的人口部分，以及有天赋的人。

An Institute of Mechanics and Materials (IMM) is being established at the University of California at San Diego to integrate research and industrial applications in mechanics and materials. The Institute will foster interdisciplinary communication and liaison between academia, industry and governmental organizations. The principal activities will include short courses on frontier, interdisciplinary areas; workshops on specific industrial problems and innovative materials; and short and intermediate length visits of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty members, and scientists and engineers form government laboratories and industrial organizations. The Institute will not conduct extensive research projects, per se, but will aim to serve as an intellectual forum to catalyze the formation of research groups when new areas or methods of approach are identified. This will include novel techniques for materials development, synthesis and processing; characterization and identification of properties-microstructure relations; physically-based micromechanical and computational modeling; and constitutive relations for nonlinear response and failure analysis; as well as design and performance analysis of complete structural entities. Timely topics will be discussed in think-tank-style workshops which will also be used for periodic assessments of long-term goals in mechanics and materials science and engineering. An external Board of Governors of prominent senior scientists and engineers will direct the Institute activities through action subcommittees and regularly assess the Institute's progress. The educational efforts of the Institute will include all levels of engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government (both national and international); and a strong outreach program to high school students and their teachers on a nationwide basis wherever there is interest, with a deliberate effort to reach minorities and under-represented segments of the population, as well as the gifted.