ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN SUSTAINABLE BUILDING STRUCTURE SYSTEM

ACU Ref: 58460
Closing Date: 31 May 2011

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a research intensive university with globally acknowledged strengths in science and engineering. NTU is ranked among the world’s top 100 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2010 placing it in the top 1% of universities globally. In the QS Asian University Rankings 2010, NTU is ranked 18th among Asia’s top 200 universities. Its College of Engineeiring was ranked the eighth Most-Cited Institution in Engineering by ScienceWatch.com. Located on a sprawling and beautiful 200-hectare residential campus, NTU has a total population of over 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 72 countries, and an international faculty body of over 1,500.

NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) aspires to be a leading school for Sustainable Built Environment. Currently, it has over 60 faculty members and more than 1500 students and is rapidly expanding its range of educational and research activities. Its faculty has led major university-wide strategic research thrusts in space creation, water research and earthquake engineering. Its underground and rock engineering and protective technologies programmes are supporting Singapore as a world leader in the development and use of large underground caverns for new space to hold infrastructure facilities. Its earlier land reclamation research has led to a new S$10 million research programme to develop super-scale cylindrical structures for underwater infrastructures or even an underwater city. The CEE faculty also played a pivotal role in the award of a S$150 million Research Centre of Excellence, the Earth Observatory of Singapore, dedicated to hazard-related earth sciences. Going forward, CEE is addressing critical problems in urban systems such as building and energy systems, sustainability of urban cities, and resiliency to natural and unnatural risks. The latter effort is through a new CEE-led NTU institute, the Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management.

To fuel further development, we invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the following area:

Sustainable Building Structure System

Candidates must have a PhD in structural engineering, sustainable construction materials, building engineering or related fields and a promising record of excellence in research. Expertise in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable: sustainable design and use of new/green materials in structural engineering with emphasis on Singapore’s high development density and tropical climate, energy efficient structural design and construction, green building design and operation, life-cycle models and analysis of building structure systems, simulation and modelling procedure for studying the interactions between building structure systems and the environment, sensor and information technologies for continuous state awareness of the building structure system, new construction, repair, and retrofits procedure for sustainable building structure systems. The successful candidate is expected to work independently and jointly with other faculty members to attract funding in the relevant areas of research, and demonstrate an ability to teach graduate and undergraduate level courses related to sustainable construction materials, building technology and building engineering.

How To Apply:

More information about this position and the application process can be obtained at:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/Career/CurrentOpenings/FacultyOpenings/Pages/CEE_SM.aspx

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Priority will be given to those who apply by 31 March 2011.

We also have other vacancies for tenure-track faculty positions. Please visit:http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/Career/CurrentOpenings/FacultyOpenings/Pages/cee.aspx for further details.