Tenure Track Position in Transportation Engineering

Toronto Metropolitan University

Tenure Track Position in Transportation Engineering
FEAS, Civil Engineering
Posted: December 3, 2024
Deadline to Apply: Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Located in downtown Toronto, the largest and most culturally diverse city in Canada and on the territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee and the Wendat Peoples, the Department of Civil Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) (formerly Ryerson University) invites applications for an early career, tenure track position, at the rank of Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2025. Qualified candidates who self-identify as members of historically designated equity deserving groups in civil engineering are encouraged to apply and to self-identify through our Applicant Diversity Self-ID questionnaire.

The successful candidate will engage in a combination of teaching, scholarly research, and service duties while maintaining an inclusive, equitable, and collegial work environment across all activities. As a member of the Place and Infrastructure Thematic Research Stream in the Migrant Integration in Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides (BD) Research Program, the successful candidate will pursue a strong, innovative, externally funded research program that applies cutting-edge analytical techniques to produce high-quality, implementable results in broad thematic areas. These areas include, but are not limited to, sustainable multimodal transportation, shared mobility and public transit, mobility analytics, climate change adaption in transportation, cyber-physical mobility, and equitable and inclusive transportation. In particular, the department is looking for exceptional candidates with proven expertise in leveraging innovative/emerging technologies, econometric techniques, game theory, statistical methods, operations research, simulation, and data science/engineering to address key issues in such thematic areas. It is expected that the successful candidate will be actively involved in the existing and new collaborative projects involving researchers within TMU and other national and international universities. Therefore, the candidate must demonstrate the potential for intersectoral and interdisciplinary research connecting transportation engineering with migration studies, urban planning, sustainability, public health, environment, and climate change. Teaching duties will entail delivery of undergraduate and graduate courses, supervision of undergraduate capstone and graduate students, and curriculum development that can support the candidate’s research agenda as well as the Department’s needs. Registration or eligibility for registration as a Professional Engineer in Ontario is mandatory.

Candidates must hold or are close to finishing a doctoral degree in Transportation Engineering or a closely related field. In addition, a strong application will have addressed the following:

the candidate’s ability to conduct strong emerging scholarly research that is current, innovative and impactful as evidenced by, but not limited to, peer-reviewed publications, working papers, public policy contributions, presentations at academic conferences, professional contributions, research grants, research related awards and other writing or creative production that contributes to the visibility and prominence of the discipline;
the candidate’s potential for teaching excellence at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum and suitability for teaching in the graduate program, as evidenced by a teaching dossier that includes a teaching philosophy statement, any experience with course and curriculum review and/or development, examples of best practices in pedagogy, including effective use of classroom technology and any experience with experiential learning, sample syllabi, strong teaching evaluations, teaching awards, and other relevant achievements in teaching;
the candidate’s commitment to the University’s values of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion as it pertains to service, teaching, and scholarly research or creative activities, including a demonstrated ability to make learning accessible and inclusive for a diverse student population; and,
the candidate’s ability and willingness to contribute to the life of the Department of Civil Engineering, and the University through collegial service activities.

The hiring committee recognizes that scholars have varying career paths and that career interruptions can be part of an excellent academic record. Candidates are therefore encouraged to provide any relevant information about their experience and/or career interruptions.

This position falls under the jurisdiction of the Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association (TFA) [www.tfanet.ca]. Visit us at www.torontomu.ca/faculty-affairs to view the TFA collective agreement and a summary of TFA benefits.



Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)
Serving a highly diverse student population of over 45,000, with 100+ undergraduate and graduate programs built on the integration of theoretical and practical learning and distinguished by a professionally focussed curriculum with a strong emphasis on excellence in teaching, research and creative activities, TMU is a vibrant, urban university known for its culture of innovation, entrepreneurship, community engagement and city-building through its award-winning architecture.

Centre for Urban Innovation (CUI)
TMU’s Centre for Urban Innovation (CUI) is a collaborative space for researchers to work on innovative solutions for the emerging challenges posed by our ever-growing urban areas. City Building TMU is a university-wide initiative to facilitate research collaborations, mobilize knowledge and showcase the scholarly, research and creative (SRC) activity happening in city building and urban innovation across the institution.

Funded by the Canada Research Excellence Fund, TMU is lead and home to the recently awarded multi-year $98.6 million research program, Migrant Integration in Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides (BD). Anchored by the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, BD will lead an innovative new research program to further understanding of migrant integration during a time of rapid technological transformation inclusive of place and infrastructure. As part of the Place and Infrastructure theme, immigrants will be seen as active agents of place making and how their involvement effects planning, design and operations of place and infrastructure in terms of housing, mobility, health and other needs which need to be considered in the decision-making process.



Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate (Master’s and Doctoral) programs to approximately 1,000 students of diverse backgrounds. After completing the first-year common engineering courses and second-year common civil engineering courses, undergraduate students in the Civil Engineering program may continue in the regular Civil Engineering program or choose the Structural Engineering option. Students continuing in the Civil Engineering program will have the option of pursuing either the Environmental or Transportation Engineering Streams in the 4th year of the program.

Our graduate programs (Ph.D., M.A.Sc. and M.Eng.) offer extensive courses and research opportunities in environmental, geomatics, structural, and transportation engineering. The Department also provides limited courses in the areas of specialization in geotechnical engineering, and construction and infrastructure management.

Our faculty prides itself on the excellence of its research, the quality of its teaching and community engagement. We are interested in candidates who will contribute to our existing strengths in research/creativity activity and teaching through academic, professional and diverse lived experiences and perspectives.


Working at TMU
At the intersection of mind and action, Toronto Metropolitan University is on a transformative path to become Canada’s leading comprehensive innovation university. At TMU, we believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are integral to this path; our current Academic Plan outlines each as core values and we work to embed them in all that we do.

Dedicated to a people first culture, TMU is proud to rank number one on the Forbes list of Canada’s Best Employers for Diversity.

We invite you to explore the range of benefits and supports available to faculty, including access to our diverse faculty and staff networks.

Visit us on X (previously known as Twitter): @torontomet, @VPFAtorontomet and @TorontoMetHR, and our LinkedIn page.

TMU is committed to accessibility for persons with disabilities. To find out more about legal and policy obligations please visit the Accessibility and Human Rights websites.

Toronto Metropolitan University welcomes those who have demonstrated a commitment to upholding the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion and will assist us to expand our capacity for diversity in the broadest sense. In addition, to correct the conditions of disadvantage in employment in Canada, we encourage applications from members of groups that have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, Indigenous peoples of North America, Black-identified persons, other racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and those who identify as women and/or 2SLGBTQ+.


How to Apply
Applicants must submit their application online via the Faculty Recruitment Portal [https://hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/] by clicking on “Start Application Process” to begin. Applications, consisting of the following, must be received by January 15, 2025:

a letter of application;
a curriculum vitae;
a statement of research interests;
a teaching dossier and results of teaching evaluations;
a statement of Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) philosophy; and
names and contact information of three individuals who may be contacted for references.

Please note that all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, applications from Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority, in accordance with Canadian immigration regulations.



Contacts
Any confidential inquiries about the opportunity can be directed to the Departmental Hiring Committee Chair, Dr. Darko Joksimovic at darkoj@torontomu.ca.

Candidates who belong to one or more of the equity-deserving groups recognized at TMU are welcome to connect with Debbie Thompson [debbie.thompson@torontomu.ca], Executive Director, Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion [www.torontomu.ca/equity].

Indigenous candidates who would like to learn more about working at Toronto Metropolitan University are welcome to contact James McKay, Indigenous Human Resources Lead at indigenous@torontomu.ca.

For any confidential accommodation needs in order to participate in the recruitment and selection process and/or inquiries regarding accessing the Recruitment Portal, please contact vpfa@torontomu.ca.