Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering

Job Description

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIE) at the University of Maine (UMaine) invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in transportation engineering. The desired areas of expertise may include but are not limited to transportation design, transportation safety, traffic engineering, highway design, safe systems approach, multimodal rural transportation systems, smart transportation systems, network modeling, public transportation, transportation-related artificial intelligence, data science, cybersecurity, and transportation technologies that enhance infrastructure resilience. The CIE program is especially interested in applicants with expertise in transportation infrastructure design and an interest in incorporating design and safety in the curriculum, and with research interests that include the design of highways, urban streets, intersections, roundabouts, and active transportation facilities.

Candidates will engage in instruction of fundamental and applied transportation engineering courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and enhance the Department's existing curriculum; establish and maintain a nationally competitive, externally funded research program; author high-quality peer-reviewed publications; train M.S. and Ph.D. students; and actively engage in service to the profession, university, and state. This position is 50% teaching and 50% research. The successful candidate will be expected to obtain licensure as a professional engineer (PE) before promotion to associate professor.

Information about the CIE Department can be found at www.civil.umaine.edu. The successful candidate will join a dynamic engineering program dedicated to high-quality teaching, scholarship, and service - where faculty support work-life integration. The EMPOWER program supports faculty at multiple stages of career development in their quest to achieve significant professional growth and advancement, including in research and scholarly activity. UMaine annually supports faculty to participate in the NCFDD Faculty Success Program.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is part of the statewide Maine College of Engineering and Computing (MCEC), which brings together the natural synergies of all engineering disciplines with computing and provides the technical workforce and innovations that are critical to moving our economy forward. MCEC includes the College of Engineering and School of Computing and Information Science at UMaine, the Department of Engineering at the University of Southern Maine (USM), along with other collaborators including the Department of Computer Science at USM and computing programs at the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) and other campuses within the University of Maine System.

UMaine is the state's primary graduate degree-granting institution. The University is Maine's designated Land Grant and Sea Grant institution, with an R1 Carnegie Classification. Several UMaine colleges, interdisciplinary research centers, and institutes afford excellent opportunities for collaborative research. These include the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, Center on Aging, Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory, Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), Climate Change Institute, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, and the Advanced Computing Group and Advanced Research Computing, Security, and Information Management (ARCSIM), which offers significant computational resources to support high-performance computing, advanced data storage and management, and visualization.

About the University :

The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the state. UMaine is a land, sea and space grant university, and maintains a leadership role as the University of Maine System's flagship institution. UMaine is the state's public research university and a Carnegie R1 top-tier research institution, dedicated to providing excellent teaching, research and service for Maine, the nation and the world. More information about UMaine is at umaine.edu.

The University of Maine offers a wide range of benefits for employees including, but not limited to, tuition benefits (employee and dependent), comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short and long term disability as well as retirement plan options.

UMaine is located in beautiful Central Maine. Many employees report that a primary reason for choosing to come to UMaine is quality of life. Numerous cultural activities, excellent public schools, safe neighborhoods, high quality medical care, little traffic, and a reasonable cost of living make the greater Bangor area a wonderful place to live. Learn more about what the Bangor region has to offer here.

Qualifications : Required :

• By the hire date, applicants must hold B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering or a closely related discipline specializing in transportation engineering.
• Experience with transportation engineering research and a record of publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals.

Preferred :

Other Information :

To be considered for this position you will need to "Apply" and upload the documentation listed below :

1.) a cover letter which describes your experience, interests, and suitability for the position

2.) a resume / curriculum vitae including ORCID number

3.) a research statement (maximum length per statement : two pages)

4.) a teaching statement and summary of teaching evaluations, if applicable (maximum length per statement : two pages)

Candidates selected to proceed to the final stages of the search process will be requested to provide a list of names and contact information for references.

Incomplete application materials cannot be considered. Materials received after the initial review date will be reviewed at the discretion of the University.

For full consideration, all materials must be submitted by 4 : 30 p.m. EST on March 18, 2025.

For questions about the search, please contact search committee chair Professor Roberto Lopez-Anido at rla@maine.edu or 207-581-2119.

The successful applicant is subject to appropriate background screening.

In complying with the letter and spirit of applicable laws and pursuing its own goals of diversity, the University of Maine System does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, familial status, ancestry, age, disability physical or mental, genetic information, or veterans or military status in employment, education, and all other programs and activities. The University provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies : Director of Equal Opportunity, 5713 Chadbourne Hall, Room 412, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5713, 207.581.1226, TTY 711 (Maine Relay System).

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