SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: ENERGY, TRANSPORTATION and the ENVIRONMENT

Engineering Systems and Management Faculty

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell invites applicants for a tenure track faculty position in the general area of sustainability, energy and transportation systems. We seek candidates with strong modeling and analysis skills that apply to the planning, management or operation of sustainable engineered systems, with particular concern for energy, transportation, and environmental impacts. We are particularly interested in identifying outstanding candidates in either of two related areas: (1) energy/environmental systems engineering, and (2) sustainable transportation systems engineering. Applicants should have a strong technical background in optimization, uncertainty and risk analysis, probabilistic and simulation modeling, and the ability to link models of engineered systems to significant policy and economic analyses.

Research in the area of energy systems engineering addresses environmental, economic, management and sustainability challenges posed by a transition to alternative energy systems in the United States and other countries. Issues of interest include managing the entire biofuels cycle and the design and implementation of other systems to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Other research areas include anticipation and mitigation of environmental effects of energy production, distribution, and use. This includes the wide range of economic, environmental and health impacts of geologic carbon sequestration (including issues of groundwater contamination), or of energy extraction using geothermal or unconventional fossil energy resources. Also of interest are green product assessment and life cycle analysis including energy and environmental costs; and reverse logistics management and product reclamation.

Within the sustainable transportation systems engineering area, we seek candidates whose interests focus on modeling the insertion of alternative energy technologies into the transportation system and the associated economic and environmental impacts. Areas of particular interest include: (1) choice modeling to understand how alternative energy technologies might be packaged to achieve sufficient acceptance, including subsidy programs for technology development and for initial consumer acceptance in the marketplace; (2) optimization of infrastructure investment to support conversions to alternative energy technologies; (3) risk analysis focused on understanding the uncertainties associated with new vehicle technologies, costs and availabilities of new fueling infrastructure, consumer acceptance of new fuels and their relevance to an assortment of potential policies and relevant coalitions; (4) modeling the use of alternative fuels, intelligent transportation systems and multi-modal transportation to support sustainable energy-based freight movement; and (5) modeling the connection between transportation energy consumption, transportation systems technology, energy policy and links to the economy and the environment.

Successful applicants will also contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching in the Engineering Systems and Management (ESM) within the CEE School, and support its Master of Engineering Program in Engineering Management in particular. Potential courses in the Engineering Management Program include Engineering Management Methods, Risk Analysis, System Dynamics, or Decision Analysis and Planning Under Uncertainty, as well as possible Engineering Management project supervision. The faculty member will also be expected to teach a graduate course related to their research specialty and contribute to the college program in sustainable energy, and carry out a successful funded research program.

Successful applicants will be expected to conduct a vigorous funded research program related to aspects of Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Economic Development, the specific programmatic focus of the Cornell Energy Institute and the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) initiative. This position is directly in line with that strength in the CEE School and College. For more information on the College strategic plan and CCSF initiatives, visit

http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/explore/strategic-planning/. http://www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/index.php

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the College of Engineering at Cornell embrace diversity and seek candidates who will create a climate that attracts students of all races, nationalities and genders. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply.

Cornell University seeks to meet the needs of dual career couples, has a Dual Career program, and is a member of the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to assist with dual career searches. Visit http://www.unyherc.org/home/index.cfm?site_id=671 to see positions available in higher education in the upstate New York area.

Applications must be submitted on-line. Application must consist of a detailed resume, statement of professional research and teaching goals, official graduate transcript, 1-3 publications, and the names, mailing and e-mail addresses, and phone and fax numbers of at least three references.

On-line submission:

Electronic copies of all application materials must be submitted on-line at http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Cornell/CEE/298

Review of applications will start on March 1, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.

Cornell University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action educator and employer.