Thomas and Colleen Wilmot Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Job Description

Syracuse University seeks an innovative thinker, inspiring teacher, and thoughtful mentor to fill the endowed Thomas and Colleen Wilmot Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). The holder will build local, regional, national, and international collaborations to address grand challenges, support research activities, drive technological innovations, create entrepreneurial opportunities, and shape public policy.

• Build an internationally recognized, externally funded research program in an area that leverages and/or complements existing strengths in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
• Organize multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional groups to compete for center- and/or institute-level funding.
• Participate in and lead collaborative educational programming on campus, including sustainability, infrastructure management and policy, hydrologic sciences and engineering, and climate change mitigation/adaptation.
• Lead research and service initiatives with potential impact at the community, state, national, and/or international level, and collaborate with organizations such as the Center of Excellence in Environmental Energy Systems to advance mutual initiatives.
• Teach at the undergraduate, graduate, or joint undergraduate/graduate level in the civil and environmental engineering program.
• Supervise thesis and dissertation research of Master’s and Ph.D. students.
• Mentor junior faculty.
• Participate in the academic life of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The successful candidate will have an earned doctorate (Ph.D. preferred) in engineering or a closely related field and a record of excellence in academic research that merits appointment at the level of full Professor.