Lecturer or Assistant Professor

University of Maine System • Orono, ME

5h

About The Position

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIE) at the University of
Maine (UMaine) invites applications for a non-tenure-track Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. required) or Lecturer (M.S. required) position. This is a
teaching-focused position with a two-year, fixed-length appointment that will
play a central role in supporting and strengthening the Department’s
undergraduate program. The successful candidate will teach fundamental and
applied courses at the undergraduate level, with potential opportunities to
contribute to graduate instruction as appropriate.

The Department is particularly interested in candidates with expertise in water
resources and geotechnical or geoenvironmental engineering. This position will
support our undergraduate concentration in water resources engineering, and the
new hire will be required to teach undergraduate elective courses in surface
water hydrology and groundwater hydraulics and hydrology. The ability to offer a
core undergraduate course in geotechnical engineering is also highly desired.
Other teaching responsibilities will be assigned based on department needs and
candidate expertise. Responsibilities include high-quality classroom
instruction, student advising and mentoring, curriculum development, and active
engagement in service to the Department, University, and State. Service to the
profession is encouraged. Given the teaching emphasis of this position, relevant
industry experience is viewed favorably but is not required.

Candidates will be encouraged to engage in research and graduate student
mentoring in collaboration with existing faculty. While this is a
teaching-focused position, the Department and University are supportive of
faculty who wish to remain active in scholarship and research. UMaine is the
state’s primary graduate-degree granting institution and Maine’s designated Land
Grant and Sea Grant university, with an R1 Carnegie Classification. Numerous
colleges, interdisciplinary research centers, and institutes provide strong
opportunities for collaborative research. These include the Transportation
Infrastructure Durability Center (formerly Region I University Transportation
Center), the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), the Climate
Change Institute, the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability
Solutions, the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory,
and Advanced Research Computing, Security, and Information Management (ARCSIM),
which offers extensive high-performance computing and data resources.

Information about the CIE Department can be found at www.civil.umaine.edu
[http://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 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is part of the Maine
College of Engineering and Computing (MCEC), which is a statewide, integrated
solution to bring together the natural synergies of all engineering disciplines
with computing and provide 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), with other collaborators
to include the Department of Computer Science at USM and computing programs at
University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) and other campuses within the University of
Maine System.

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 [http://umaine.edu/].

The University of Maine offers a wide range of benefits
[https://umainesystem.sharepoint.com/sites/USERVICES-UMS-Benefits-Public] 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. Visit the Maine Office of Tourism
[https://themainehighlands.com/places-to-visit/greater-bangor-region/] to learn
more about what the Bangor region has to offer.

Requirements

• Applicants must hold B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering or closely related discipline by the hire date to qualify for the non-tenure track Assistant Professor position.
• Applicants must hold B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering or closely related discipline by the hire date to qualify for the Lecturer position.
• Applicants must be US persons or currently reside in the US and hold valid immigration status.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience in industry
• The successful candidate will have the ability to and be strongly encouraged to obtain licensure as a professional engineer (PE).

Responsibilities

• high-quality classroom instruction
• student advising and mentoring
• curriculum development
• active engagement in service to the Department, University, and State

Benefits

• tuition benefits (employee and dependent)
• comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short and long term disability
• retirement plan options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees