The Department of River Coastal Science and Engineering (RCSE) at Tulane University invites applications for a Professor of Practice position to begin on May 1, 2025. Successful candidates will have a PhD in Civil or Environmental Engineering with a focus on Water Resources. Experience in teaching fluid mechanics, hydrology and hydraulic engineering is beneficial. This is a 12-month appointment that includes teaching in the summer term, as well as during the academic year. We welcome and encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. Our friendly and collaborative department currently has 6 tenure-track/tenured faculty with a commitment to grow over the next few years. In our research and teaching, we take pride in our focus on rivers and coastal science and engineering and their interdisciplinary applications. More information about the department, its faculty team, and its undergraduate and graduate programs can be found at https://sse.tulane.edu/river. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2024, and continue until the position is filled. The intent is for the position to be filled by May 1, 2025, in preparation for beginning instruction in the Summer 2025 term.
Tulane Professors of Practice in the School of Science & Engineering are faculty who design, enhance, and teach courses primarily at the undergraduate level, with the flexibility to instruct graduate courses as well as determined by the department’s need, while also contributing service to the departmental and university. Many of RCSE’s courses for advanced undergraduates are also available to graduate students. Professors of Practice hold term appointments that are renewable every three years (initially), and every five years after promotion to Senior Professor of Practice. The typical teaching load is three sections per semester (two preps). Our core courses focus on the fundamentals of water resources engineering and present course offerings are listed at https://catalog.tulane.edu/science-engineering/river-coastal-science-engineering/#coursestext.
Institutional and departmental support is available, for example, through Tulane’s Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching, and with teaching and course assistants. Tulane recognizes and rewards innovative and quality teaching. Candidates interested in creating and adopting pedagogical innovations, conducting scholarly activity in river coastal science and engineering education, or developing original elective courses will find many opportunities and support to pursue their interests. The successful candidate will have a record of excellent teaching and mentoring at the undergraduate level, and commitment to student-centered teaching and to increasing diversity in the classroom.
The selected candidate will participate in an interdisciplinary dual-degree program with the School of Architecture. This joint program offers a MS degree from RCSE and MLA from TuSA (MLA-MS RCSE (https://landscape-engineering.tulane.edu).
Tulane University is a private Carnegie-R1 university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU). Tulane brings together bold and creative scholars, scientists and students who are committed to crossing boundaries. Data-intensive discovery lies at the heart of research and education at Tulane and is fueled by Tulane’s new Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science. Tulane resides in historic New Orleans, Louisiana – a city that takes the utmost pride in its vibrant music scene, world-class restaurants, rich confluence of cultures and traditions, and festive Mardi Gras parades. "The things that make life worth living – eating, drinking and the making of merriment – are the air that New Orleans breathes." - Adam Karlin, Lonely Planet. The Princeton Review ranks Tulane at or near the top for Most Engaged in Community (#1), College City (#1), Happiest Students (#4), Best-Run College (#4), and Quality of Life (#9).
