Geotechnical Faculty Positions

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia announces the opening of multiple tenure-track faculty positions in all areas of Civil and Environmental Engineering. especially one or more positions in Geotechnical Engineering.  Applications will be considered for Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors.  At GT, our geotechnical group is entitled:  Geosystems Engineering.  Research areas of interest include broad areas of geotechnics, geomechanics, geophysics, and soil & rock, as well as sustainability and resilience of subsurface infrastructure systems subjected to natural and man-made hazards, including geotechnical earthquake engineering; new laboratory and field developments at the confluence of sensors, IT and modeling; subsurface solutions to global problems of energy generation, capture, storage and transmission; engineered geomaterials; and high performance computing.   Applicants with the ability to work across other engineering & related disciplines are especially encouraged to apply.   Details are found at:   http://geosystems.ce.gatech.edu/ The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has vibrant programs in Geotechnical Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources, Structural, and Transportation Engineering. In both Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering, the School’s undergraduate programs are ranked 2^nd and 3^rd nationally, and the graduate programs are ranked 3^rd and 5^th, respectively. The School currently has approximately 790 undergraduate and 400 graduate students.  www.ce.gatech.edu

Candidates must hold a doctoral degree in Geotechnical/Civil & Environmental Engineering, or a related field at the time of appointment, and will have either demonstrated, or shown a clear potential, for creative and independent research that would lead to a strong extramurally-funded research program and national and international recognition. Incumbents will teach both undergraduate and graduate courses.  Screening of applicants will continue until January 5, 2015 or until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a one-page statement of teaching experience and interests, a one-page statement of research objectives, and the names of four references in a single PDF file to: [log in to unmask]. Please format the file name as: Burdell.GP_Faculty Search Application (for example) and include “Georgia Tech Faculty Search,” and your area of specialization (e.g., “Geotechnical”), in the subject line of the email.    The Georgia Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and applications from women and under-represented minorities are encouraged.