What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor position at Oklahoma State University?
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIVE) at Oklahoma State University is pleased to invite applications for one (1) tenure-track faculty position in the area of Geotechnical Engineering. Successful candidates must demonstrate potential for developing a strong externally funded research program. The School is especially interested in candidates that can collaborate strategically with current expertise within the department, college, and state. Candidates with research and teaching interests in all areas of geotechnical engineering will be considered, including foundation engineering, soil-structure interaction, slope stability, biogeotechnics, energy geotechnics, ground improvement methods, unsaturated soil mechanics, geo-environmental engineering, and computational geotechnics.
Successful candidates will have the opportunity to utilize the Bert Cooper Engineering Research Laboratory, a 33,000 ft2 state-of-the-art structural engineering and materials engineering research laboratory with 6,000 ft2 strong floor high bay testing area (https : / / ceat.okstate.edu / cive / research / bert-cooper / index.html). Candidates will also have access to the High-Performance Computing Center (https : / / hpcc.okstate.edu). Moreover, CIVE currently boasts well-equipped teaching and research laboratories dedicated to the geotechnical engineering program.
The successful candidate must have an academic background to teach undergraduate courses in geotechnical engineering in the Civil and Environmental Engineering curriculum, as well as offer new and / or existing graduate courses in their area of expertise. A Ph.D. in, or closely related to, Civil and Environmental Engineering is required. It is expected that candidates can become licensed as a Professional Engineer within 6 years of appointment.
