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Transportation Engineering Assistant, or Associate or Full Professor

Requisition ID: 2024-8381

of Openings: 1

Location: US-UT-Logan Category: Faculty Position Type: Benefited Full-Time Job Classification: Faculty College: College of Engineering Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Advertised Salary: Commensurate with experience, plus excellent benefits

Overview The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) in the College of Engineering at Utah State University (USU) is committed to excellence, access, and inclusion for all. We warmly invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds for our tenure-track (or tenured) academic year faculty position in Transportation Engineering. It is expected that the position will be filled at the Assistant Professor level; however, outstanding candidates at the Associate or Full Professor level will also be considered. The anticipated start date is August 2025.

For the faculty position, targeted areas of research and teaching within transportation engineering include, but are not limited to, the following: traffic operations, freight transportation or goods movement, public transportation systems, transportation electrification, transportation network modeling, connected and autonomous vehicles, and cyber-physical systems. An ideal candidate will possess interests and skills that complement existing departmental and institutional strengths-in transportation electrification, traveler behavior, active transportation, transportation data analysis and econometrics, transportation equity, infrastructure resilience, transportation planning, traffic safety, land use planning, and outdoor recreation-and contribute to addressing 21st-century transportation challenges related to infrastructure, sustainability, and societal impacts.

The CEE Department at USU benefits from affiliation with several transportation related centers, programs, and partners. The CEE department's Utah Transportation Center has been a part of several University Transportation Centers funded by the US Department of Transportation, currently the Center for Transformative Infrastructure Preservation and Sustainability. USU houses the Utah Local Technical Assistance Program center for transportation technology transfer. A National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for transportation electrification-Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE)-is headquartered at and led by USU. The Utah Department of Transportation is also a close research partner, having supported USU faculty with more than $1.5 million in research funding over the last 5 years.

The search committee will begin considering applications on November 1, 2024. For full consideration, applications should be submitted prior to that date; however, the position will remain open until filled. Questions about this position can be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Patrick Singleton (patrick.singleton@usu.edu).

Responsibilities Successful applicants will be expected to develop a high-quality program of research and scholarship that is consistently productive, sustainable, and nationally recognized... For full info follow application link.

USU recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting the university's academic mission of learning, discovery, and engagement. USU is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any of its programs and activities based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, genetic information, sexual orientation or gender identity/expression, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by University policy or local, state, or federal law (https://equity.usu.edu/non-discrimination) .