Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor / Professor - Department of Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) (Re-Advertisement at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

RESPONSIBILITIES:

It will be expected of the successful candidates to:

• Teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the Department;
• Supervise final year undergraduate project students and postgraduate Honours, Masters and PhD students;
• Conduct research as a member of the transportation research group in the Department and publish in leading accredited journals;
• Raise and manage additional funding from national and international funding agencies and industry to support the activities of the relevant research group;
• Expand existing research programmes or initiate new research programmes;
• Perform assigned departmental duties (e.g. of an administrative nature).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Senior Lecturer:

• A BEng degree in Civil Engineering from a university of which the undergraduate programme is recognized by the Washington accord or is recognized by ECSA to be equivalent plus;
• A Masters’ degree in Civil Engineering that follows on the previous qualification, plus
• A PhD degree in Civil Engineering in the field of Transportation Engineering;
• At least three years tertiary education experience or three years industry experience with some involvement in tertiary education;
• At least 2 articles published in DHET accredited journals or a DHET accredited book;
• At least 2 other publication outputs (peer reviewed conference paper(s) / book chapter(s) / industry recognized outputs in a commensurate field;
• Supervision / co-supervision of Master’s students to completion or proven management experience in industry.

Associate Professor

• Same as for Senior Lecturer, plus;
• At least 6 years tertiary education experience or 6 years industry experience with some involvement in tertiary education;
• Experience in curriculum / strategy development and innovation;
• Evidence of sustained publications output;
• Majority of recent publications should be in WoS / Scopus / IBSS journals (past 7 years);
• Evidence of at least 3 research Master’s OR 6 coursework Master’s mini-dissertations successfully completed (supervised or co-supervised);
• Evidence of Doctoral student supervision;
• Evidence of conducting reviewer duties for journals and/or conferences.

Professor

• Same as Associate Professor , plus;
• At least 8 years tertiary education experience or 8 years industry experience with some involvement in tertiary education;
• A record of previous undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching experience, including graduation of Doctoral students;
• A well-established and internationally recognized research record supported by publications in high quality peer reviewed journals with an average of 2 units published per year over the past 3 years;
• Evidence of conference papers delivered internationally;
• Evidence of conducting reviewer duties for ISI journals;
• An NRF rating is required for this level.

ADDED ADVANTAGES AND PREFERENCES:

• Evidence of teaching excellence;
• Preference will be given to candidates who have teaching and research expertise that complement the Department’s needs;
• Related industry work or consulting experience;
• Candidates registered or registerable as Professional Engineer with ECSA;
• NRF rating or have applied for one.