Associate professor or Assistant professor, Structural Engineering of Ship and Marine Systems, Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University

The Department of Marine Systems Engineering consists of three chairs: Ship and Marine Dynamics (Marine Hydrodynamics, and Marine Dynamics and Control), Structural Engineering of Ship and Marine Systems (Structural Systems, and Fatigue, Fracture, Welding Mechanics and Production Systems), and Marine Systems Design (Functional Systems Engineering, Ship Design and Maritime Intelligence Technology, and Ocean Energy Resources). Additionally, the department has a chair, Systems Planning, in an endowed course of Naval Architecture and Marine System Engineering Human Resource Development which was established at the urging of related industries.
The associate professor or assistant professor will belong to the chair of Structural Engineering of Ship and Marine Systems and will be in charge of teaching and research related to structural strength estimation, safety assessment including structural reliability and structural optimization and vibration of ships and offshore structures, and their structural components.
The role will also be to promote academic exchange with universities at home and abroad and collaborative research with domestic private companies.

Work content and job description
Specialties：Structural Mechanics of Ship and Offshore Structures, Estimation of Structural Strength, Structural Optimization, Vibration of Ship and Offshore Structures
Teaching Responsibilities：Undergraduate lectures (Structural Mechanics, Practice of Numerically Structural Analysis, Mechanics of Materials, Vibration Theory), Graduate lectures (Structural Mechanics of Ship and Offshore Structures, Theory of Numerically Structural Analysis), Core Education courses (Dynamics, Programing Seminar, and Introduction to Data Science) and so on.

Associate Professor
Annual Salary :

7 million yen
~

Assistant Professor level
Annual Salary :

5 million yen
~

Description
(1)Doctoral or PhD degree.
(2)Have sufficient teaching ability (including instruction and lectures in English) and enthusiasm and ability to take charge of the administration of the undergraduate and graduate doctoral programs.
(3)Have particularly outstanding leading research achievements or equivalent research results and work experience in the above-mentioned specialized fields.
(4)The applicant should have the willingness and ability to actively engage in interdisciplinary research with other areas of specialization and the development of new research fields from a long-term perspective, in addition to the above-mentioned areas of specialization.
(5)Have the ability and enthusiasm to actively develop education and research activities from an international perspective and social cooperation with industry, government, etc.

Associate Professor
Tenured

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Non-tenure track

Assistant Professor level
Nontenured

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Non-tenure track

Attached documents
Application Form :
Online Submission
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Mailing
(1)Curriculum vitae
（Include a photograph and a statement of education, employment history, and qualifications. Include contact information and e-mail address.）

Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)
819-0395
Fukuoka
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University Professor Daisuke Yanagihara

Selection
Initial document screening (1st round) followed by interviews (2nd round). The interviews may be conducted online.

Notification of result
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