Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to let you know that the 3rd Midwest Workshop on Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MidMechMat 3) will take place on August 11th, 2017 at Purdue University. MidMechMat is a one day workshop that aims at bringing together researchers from the Midwest universities and industries working on contemporary topics in mechanics of new, complex and multi-functional materials to exchange ideas, present their most exciting research and explore new collaboration avenues in an informal and vibrant setting. The first workshop was held at UIUC and the second workshop was hosted at Northwestern University - both were of great success to serve the midwest community. Please visit the workshop website for this year: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MidMechMat/. The program has been posted. We will have 8 invited keynote speakers. We are currently seeking titles for the 180-second graduate student oral presentations and the poster session. Registration is required but free for all participants. The registration form can be filled at the conference website. Registration includes lunch and boxed dinner. Space is limited for this workshop, so please register the workshop at your earliest convenience. Please help us circulate this announcement to your colleagues who work broadly in the mechanics, materials and structures fields, and we appreciate that you would urge your group to register and participate in this exciting workshop. We look forward to seeing you all here at Purdue in August! Best wishes, Kejie Zhao On behalf of the co-organizers: Kejie Zhao, Thomas Siegmund, Pablo D Zavattieri, Arun Prakash, Vikas Tomar, Peilin Liao, Purdue University. Yuhang Hu, Ahmed Elbanna, UIUC Sinan Keten, Oluwaseyi Balogun, Northwestern University. Liang Qi, Yue Fan, University of Michigan. Melih Eriten, University of Wisconsin Ankit Srivastava, Illinois Institute of Technology. -- Kejie Zhao, PhD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University 585 Purdue Mall, RM1074 West Lafayette, IN,47906 Office: 765-496-0224<tel:(765)%20496-0224> Homepage: https://engineering.purdue.edu/kjzhao