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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Birmingham Ford Motor Company, Dunton, Essex Research Project: Engine Mapping As Automotive Statistical Modelling This two-year post-doctoral position offers an excellent opportunity to undertake statistical modelling in an innovative professional engineering environment. The work concerns the topic 'engine mapping', little known outside the automotive area, but which now has a strong statistical modelling aspect, and is based on data from designed engine experimentation. It allows the driver to set engine variables which produce required speed and power, subject to constrained emissions. The first phase of this work is reported in Technometrics 40 (1998), 120-126, and the current project aims to take it further for use in the next generation of production engines. The position will be based at the University of Birmingham but close interaction and reporting to statistically-knowledgeable engineers at the Ford Engineering and Research Centre in Essex will be involved. The position should be an excellent launch to the career of an engineering-inclined statistician. Salary will reflect the high level of technical and personal qualities required. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor A.J.Lawrance, Email:A.J.Lawrance @bham.ac.uk, Telephone: +44-(0)121-414-6190/3389(fax), or by post. Further information is available on the School's Website: http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk. Application forms and further particulars available from the Director of Staffing Services, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. Telephone: +44-(0)121-414-6486, Email: [log in to unmask] or Website: http:// www.bham.ac.uk/staffing/. Please quote reference number of the post, S35281/99. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%