Architecture (Environmental Design) Sr Lecturer/Assistant Professor

Canadian University Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian university in Dubai seeks a Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in environmental design. This role involves teaching, mentoring students, and conducting research aimed at achieving carbon neutrality in the built environment. The ideal candidate will possess a terminal degree in a relevant design field and demonstrate proficiency in parametric design techniques.

Qualifications

• Three years of university-level teaching experience, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven years of university-level teaching experience for more senior ranks.

Responsibilities

• Teach 12 credits, typically resulting in one design studio and two taught courses each semester.
• Conduct research projects and publications.
• Provide academic mentoring for students.

Skills

Proficiency with Rhinoceros

Proficiency with Grasshopper

Application of passive design techniques

Education

Terminal degree in a design-related field

Advanced degree related to environmental/parametric design

PhD related to environmental/parametric design

Tools

LSA (life-cycle assessment)

Job description

Job Description

ABOUT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

With a faculty
that contributes experiences in practice and research in more than ten countries, the international make-up of the School of Architecture
and Interior Design at CUD is unique in the UAE. It brings together traditions and innovations from the East and the West, the North and the
South, and seeks to provide the best of this broad cultural background in design, offering new views on the local context from a global
perspective.

CUD offers an environment where Canadian values of Higher Education meet creatively and complementarily with the local
culture and academic higher education regulations. The School understands architecture and interior design as manifestations of social and
cultural life in space. It conceives architectural and interior design as creative processes giving spatial forms to human values by
organizing material and environmental conditions in the urban context; It considers that architectural design creations must provide
inspiring enclosure for human activity and thinking to thrive. The School offers a five-year Bachelor of Architecture, a four-year Bachelor
of Science in Interior Design, and a two-year Master of Science in Design Innovation for Circular Economy, while it is expanding its
educational ecosystem to shape a more comprehensive design landscape.

PROFILE

The candidate's
teaching and research area is that of environmental design methods and tools for pursuing carbon neutrality in the built environment through
open innovation. The application domains include, without being limited to, the performance of building envelope, and urban and landscape
design, achieved through the integration of material environmental science, driven by emerging technologies. The successful candidate will
contribute to this research field by developing innovative concepts, tools and platforms to intertwine passive and active environmental
control techniques through digital innovation, and to link them to industrial applications. This research area can contribute to developing
innovative projects for the reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions, improvement of indoor and outdoor comfort, urban resilience,
the mitigation of heat islands and of other effects brought about by climate change.


RESPONSIBILITIES

Teach 12 credits, typically resulting in one design studio and two taught courses a
semester, including student academic mentoring

• Research through the classic academic realm via research projects, innovations,
  and publications or via industrial/architectural design or digital fabrication practice. Publications at a level appropriate for the
  discipline and designation. Applications to external research funds
• Service to support the administrative side of the department,
  school and the university or extracurricular activities for students, staff, and discipline.
• Participation in departmental
  activities and administrative life.
• Positions of administrative responsibility at departmental/school level.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCES

Successful applicants to the position of Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor
should possess:

• A terminal degree in a design-related field or equivalent professional experience
• An advanced degree
  related to environmental/parametric design
• Three years of university-level teaching experience-either full-time, adjunct, or
  visiting scholar-at the undergraduate and graduate levels, or equivalent professional experience in a design-related field with an emphasis
  on computation

Successful applicants to more senior ranks should also possess:

• A PhD related to environmental/parametric design, and
• Seven years of university-level teaching experience at the
  undergraduate and graduate levels, or equivalent professional experience in a design-related field with an emphasis on generative/
  computational design

Areas of expertise in two or more of the following areas:

• Proficiency with Rhinoceros
  Grasshopper (GHPython a plus)
• Proficiency with LSA (life-cycle assessment)
• Application of passive design techniques in
  constructed or theoretical projects

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