1855 Assistant/Associate/Full Professor-Tenure System East Lansing, Michigan, United States Civil And Environmental Engineering 10016148 Area of Interest: Education/Training Area of Interest: Engineers/Architects Area of Interest: Research/Scientific Full Time/Part Time: Full Time (90-100%) Group: Tenure System Faculty Union/Non-Union: Union Faculty/Academic Staff Opening on: Sep 29 2026 Closing at: Sep 29 2028 -
23:55 EDT Salary Commensurate with Experience College Of Engineering 1170955 Position Summary The Colleges of Engineering and Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University (MSU) invite applications for a tenure-system faculty position in hydrologic systems engineering and data science. Securing water has become a defining challenge of the century, and Michigan is where that challenge is most sharply
concentrated. The state holds the world's largest freshwater system, anchors a diverse agricultural economy dependent on water, and is now attracting a wave of water-intensive industry — data centers, EV battery production, and advanced manufacturing — that is creating unprecedented and unevenly distributed demand. Floods, droughts, and weather extremes across the Great Lakes region are growing more frequent and
severe, straining aging infrastructure and agricultural systems. MSU is uniquely positioned at this precise intersection of freshwater abundance, agricultural mission, and industrial water demand — and meeting these challenges is fundamentally an engineering problem. We welcome candidates whose research and teaching address these critical societal challenges, particularly in areas such as flood and drought
forecasting, controllable urban water systems, resilient infrastructure, and data-driven management of rivers, lakes, and groundwater. This includes the coupling of process-based hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling with AI, machine learning, remote sensing, high-performance computing, and real-time data infrastructure. Distinct opportunities also exist in physics-informed AI, digital twins of watersheds and water
infrastructure, and smart-sensored water systems grounded in a real freshwater-agriculture-industry setting. We welcome applications at the rank of Assistant Professor, though outstanding candidates at Associate or Full Professor level are also encouraged to apply. Candidates must have earned a PhD in Engineering or a closely related discipline at the time of appointment, with an anticipated start date of August 16,
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