Ast/Aso/Full Professor and Director of the University of Florida Transportation Institute Apply now Job no: 537651 Work type: Tenure-Track Faculty Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL) Categories: Education/Training/Instructional Design, Engineering Department:19070000 - EG-ENG SCH SUSTAIN INFRST ENV Classification Title: DIR & AST/ASO/FULL PROF Classification Minimum Requirements: PhD in Transportation Engineering
or a closely related field. Job Description: The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE)) at the University of Florida is soliciting applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in Transportation Engineering and to serve as the Director of the University of
Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI). We welcome expertise in any area of multi-modal transportation research including but not limited to planning, operations, safety, systems analysis, emerging technologies (e.g., connected / autonomous vehicles, AI, digital twins, edge computing), and economics. The UFTI vision statement is “To lead the profession in shaping a better transportation future by functioning as a
preeminent center of multidisciplinary transportation research, student’s top choice for transportation education, and a provider of state-of-the-art analysis and decision-support tools.” UFTI is home to auxiliary programs McTrans, Technology Transfer (T2), and I-STREET, each of which plays a distinctive but complementary role within the transportation profession. McTrans develops and supports industry-leading
software for highway capacity design and traffic simulations. T2 provides training and safety program support to industry throughout Florida and beyond, while I-STREET is a living lab that leverages advanced technologies to improve mobility and safety and serves as a resource for facilitating deployment for the entire state. The UFTI director will strengthen Florida’s national leadership by shaping how university-led
research is conducted and managed. More information about UFTI is available here https://www.transportation.institute.ufl.edu/ Responsibilities for the successful candidate include. leading the UFTI, building an internationally impactful research program focused on transportation, leading large, multi-investigator and multi-university initiatives and proposals, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, and
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