Fully Funded PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Composite Structures, and Bridge Engineering University of Maine in United States

Dr. Sam Smith, incoming Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at Kansas State University , is launching the Structural Intelligence Lab and recruiting multiple Ph.D. students . The lab will work at the intersection of structural engineering , mechanics , and machine learning , with an emphasis on developing, evaluating, and critically examining AI methods for structural engineering applications. The post highlights interest in emerging AI tools for structural engineering, including both their...

PhD opening in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology The Systems Realization Laboratory (SRL@FIT) at Florida Tech is advertising one immediate, funded PhD position for Fall 2026 . The position is hosted by Assistant Professor Anand Balu Nellippallil in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Research areas include engineering design and optimization, integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), uncertainty qua...

The Structures & Computational Intelligence (SCI) Lab at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) is looking for 1–2 M.S. students in Civil Engineering for Fall 2026 or Spring 2027 admissions. The lab is led by Bozhou Zhuang and focuses on the intersection of structural engineering and artificial intelligence . Research opportunities include structural testing , sensing , data acquisition , machine learning for infrastructure assessment , foundation models (LLMs and VLMs) , remote sensi...

Funded MS positions are available at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Civil Engineering . The openings are based in the Structures and Computational Intelligence Lab and focus on research in structural engineering , computational intelligence , smart infrastructure , machine learning for engineering , and AI-enabled engineering analysis . Students may work on projects involving structural analysis and modeling , computational modeling , civil engineering systems , and data-driven civ...

A funded PhD research opportunity is available at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Computational Mechanics and Intelligent Systems Lab . The project sits at the intersection of topology optimization , machine learning , artificial intelligence , quantum computing , and computational mechanics . The research aims to develop next-generation methods for engineering design, simulation, and decision-making, with applications in AI, quantum computing, and computational engineering....