Symposium: 2010 Robert J. Melosh Medal Symposium; Duke University; Durham, North Carolina; April 2010

2010年罗伯特·J·梅洛什奖章研讨会摘要梅洛什奖章研讨会是国际公认的有限元分析研究生论文比赛，目前已进入第22个年头。一个杰出的评委小组通过双盲法选出参加该项目的决赛选手。与往年相比，该项目的目标是增加参加专题讨论会的机会，使更多的与会者了解专题讨论会。这将通过向所有参与者提供旅行援助来实现，包括决赛选手、评委和通过审查过程被确定为荣誉奖的其他学生。由于预计这一援助将把申请者群体扩大到更广泛的学生阶层，宣传传单将被发送到历史上一直是黑人的学院和大学的工程项目中。还将在iMECHANICA网站上征集论文，特别强调提供旅行支助。获奖者将根据论文/口头报告的综合分数选出，研讨会的结果将在网络和当地新闻媒体上广泛传播。这一项目的好处主要是教育性质的。梅洛什研讨会是计算力学领域唯一的同类竞赛。它为工程学领域的顶尖研究生提供了一个与各自领域的知名学者互动的独特机会，与任何技术会议完全分开。

Attendees at the 2010 Robert J. Melosh Medal SymposiumAbstractThe Melosh Medal Symposium is an internationally recognized graduate student-paper competition in finite-element analysis that is currently in its twenty-second year. A distinguished panel of judges selects the finalists that compete in the event, through a double-blind format. The objectives of this project are to increase access to the Symposium as well as its visibility for a much broader set of participants than in previous years. This will be effected by providing travel assistance to all participants, including the finalists, the judges, and additional students identified as honorable mentions through the review process. In anticipation of this assistance opening up the applicant pool to a much broader class of students, promotional flyers will be sent to engineering programs at historically black colleges and universities. A call for papers will also be placed on the web at iMechanica, with particular emphasis placed on the availability of travel support. The winner will be selected on the basis of a combined paper/oral presentation score, and the results of the Symposium will be widely disseminated on the web and local news media.The benefits of this project are largely educational in nature. The Melosh Symposium is the only competition of its kind in the area of computational mechanics. It provides a unique opportunity for top graduate students in engineering to interact with leading scholars in their field, and is completely separate from any technical conferences.