Jobs:Job-00324
Apply before: 7 March 2021
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Position: Assistant Professor
Apply before: 7 March 2021
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The successful applicant will align with the University of Calgary's Growth Through Focus strategic vision and support its strategic academic and research priorities of transdisciplinary scholarship, future-focused program delivery, and deeper community integration.
You will be an emerging scholar with an original, creative, innovative and forward-looking research program, with demonstrated excellence in Civil and/or Environmental Engineering. This will be evidenced by high-quality scholarly output and research impact that demonstrates the potential for independent research leading to peer-evaluated publications, securing of external research funding, active engagement with industry, and supervision of graduate students. You will be able to demonstrate a strong academic background with research expertise in Civil and/or Environmental Engineering, an ability to work as part of our highly-collaborative research teams, and preferably have participated in municipal, provincial, industrial and/or Indigenous community collaborative research.
With a proven track record in the field of disaster and risk mitigation, reliability and resilience, and a strong statistical and stochastic modelling background, you will have familiarity with predictive modeling, decision theory, and data-driven methodologies to characterize, model and predict the effect of natural hazards and their mutual interactions on the built environment. Preference will be given to candidates with a background in earth system modelling, climatology, hydro-meteorology and hydrology; and the application of these principles in modelling, engineering design and decision making. Areas of research interest should include one or more of the following:
- analysis and modelling of extreme events under climate non-stationarity, including designing new tools for flood and drought mitigation;
- socio-hydrological modelling of coupled human-natural systems and decision making under uncertainty; and/or
- improving the resiliency of communities and reducing risk to infrastructure, such as structural and non-structural mitigation measures that can reduce the risk imposed by natural hazards (e.g. flooding)
You will have a demonstrated ability to develop and teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses core to engineering and on topics related to Civil, Sustainable and/or Environmental Engineering. You will actively contribute to teaching, curriculum development, graduate student supervision and mentoring, and are expected to provide service in support of the Department, School, University and Profession. As a member of the University of Calgary community, you will support, and contribute to, equity, diversity and inclusion and a positive working and learning environment.
To be eligible for consideration, candidates must hold a B.Sc. in Civil, Environmental Engineering, or equivalent Engineering degree and a Ph.D. in Civil or Environmental Engineering or a closely related discipline; have a strong research track record; and provide evidence of excellence in teaching. Relevant industrial experience is an asset. Candidates should have strong oral and written English communication skills. All candidates must be eligible for registration as a professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA).
