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Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Computational mechanics, robotics, precision engineering and advanced manufacturing, and the multiscale modelling that carries a material property up into a system that has to work.

Applied engineering Established science 10^-3 m to 10^3 m 13 open

What this work is, and what it is not

A finite element result is only as good as its mesh, its material model and its boundary conditions, and all three are choices. This division reports a mesh convergence study with every structural result, states the material model used, and distinguishes a simulated part from a built one and a built one from a tested one.

Established science. Rests on settled physics and engineering. The work applies it; it is not what is under test here.

Scale bands are a research classification, not a claim of experimental reach. Most of this span cannot be probed by any apparatus that exists: nothing below about 10^-19 m has been measured directly, and anything at 10^26 m or beyond is inferred from observation rather than engineered. Every opportunity states the kind of work it actually is.

Where this division sits

Scale range 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

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Experiments reach here 3 bands no experiment reaches This role
B07

Meso and human-scale devices (10^-3 to 10^0)
Components, instruments and devices a person can hold. Where most engineering prototypes are built and tested.

B08

Macro, infrastructure and planetary surface (10^0 to 10^6)
Machines, structures, vehicles, buildings and infrastructure networks, up to regional scale.

Charter

This division develops models across scales, translates material properties into system performance, runs engineering simulations, builds prototypes, and integrates advanced materials into working hardware. It is where the department's small-scale work becomes something a person can hold.

Domains

Mechanical engineeringComputational mechanicsRoboticsPrecision engineeringAdvanced manufacturingMultiscale modellingSolid mechanicsFluid mechanicsThermal systems

Disciplines

Mechanical engineering Materials science Physics Scientific computing

Works with

Divisions this one collaborates with routinely.

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13 open opportunities

Grouped by career rung. Every posting states its own classification, its scale range and what it expects you to have already done.

Level 1 4

Computational Mechanics Intern

A finite element problem set up from scratch and verified against a closed-form solution.

Simulation Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Mechanical Research Intern

One mechanical analysis carried out with a mesh convergence study and an analytic cross-check.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Multiscale Engineering Intern

Carrying one material property from the scale it is measured at up to a system-level prediction.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^0 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Robotics Intern

A robotic subsystem modelled and controlled in simulation, with the controller's limits characterised.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Level 3 4

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Turning a design into a repeatable process, and reporting the yield that process actually achieves.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 5 more

Computational Mechanics Engineer

The simulations themselves, and the evidence that each one has converged.

Simulation Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Mechanical Engineer

Designs that get made: manufacturable, tolerated, and analysed against a written specification.

Applied engineering Established science L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Robotics Engineer

Robotic systems built and tested, including the failure behaviour rather than only the nominal one.

Applied engineering Established science L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 6 more

Level 4 2

Multiscale Systems Engineer

The chain from nanoscale property to macroscopic performance, and where each link weakens.

Applied engineering Established science L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 5 more

Precision Engineering Engineer

Where tolerance, thermal drift and metrology decide whether a mechanism works at all.

Applied engineering Established science L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^0 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 5 more

Level 5 1

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Several mechanical programmes at once, and the analysis standard applied across them.

Applied engineering Established science L5 · Senior Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Level 6 1

Multiscale Engineering Lead

What this division builds, who builds it, and the rule that a simulated part is never described as a tested one.

Applied engineering Established science L6 · Lead Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Level 7 1

Principal Multiscale Engineer

The department's hardest problems in carrying behaviour across scales.

Applied engineering Established science L7 · Principal Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

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