Saturday, January 28, 2012

KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Research Technician in Experimental Engine Combustion
Job Type: Research
The Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) at KAUST is looking for an experienced Research Technician to join the Center's world-class team and assist research in Experimental Engine Combustion. The Research Technician will support research activities within the Center. The position will remain open until filled. The advertised position is full-time and characterized by highly competitive salary and benefits.
This position is very technical and requires a candidate with extensive knowledge of advanced engine test cells operation and maintenance. The candidate will be responsible for operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of advanced engine test cell and advanced emission analyzers typical of engine test cell. Performs tasks/projects within a large-scope project, assuring quality, cost-effectiveness and timely delivery. Work with engine experimentalists and provide technical advice and assistance. Monitors junior staff to ensure the correct and safe procedures are followed. Perform other miscellaneous related duties as needed.
Major Responsibilities:
* Install test engine and its relevant equipments into test cells and preparing them for a variety of tests.
* Operating, maintenance and troubleshooting of advanced engine test cell which includes advanced single cylinder research engines (gasoline, diesel, metal and optical) and advanced emission analyzers typical of engine test cell.
* Preparation of test engines, which includes mounting, instrumentation (sensors, actuators, etc), changing/swapping parts and performing necessary fabrication.
Organization:
Research Center
Division / Center:
Center for Clean Combustion
Technical Skills:
Applications will be considered in the light of a candidate's ability to meet the following criteria:
* Experience in the operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of advanced single cylinder research engines (gasoline, diesel, metal and optical) and advanced emission systems.
* Experience with engine emission bench operation, maintenance and measurement techniques (AVL, Horiba, ...etc).
* Experience with testing equipment operation, maintenance and measurement techniques (e.g., soot meter, micro-soot sensor, SMPS, ...etc).
* Experience in specifying, integrating and troubleshooting typical engine test cell such as dynamometer, conditioning units (air, fuel, oil), fueling system, ...etc.
* Experience in specifying, integrating and troubleshooting sensors and actuators commonly used in engine test cell.
* Should be able to utilize INCA ETAS software and combustion measurement technique such as CAS and INDICOM.
* Personnel who have good experience in optical engine and optical/laser-based experimental methods or gas analyzing techniques such as GC and FTIR will be favored. Knowledge of electrical grounding and shielding techniques, programming experience in NI LABVIEW are preferred.
* Ten (10) or more years experience in engine combustion in industrial or applied research laboratories.
Competencies:
* Strong work ethic and close attention to detail.
* Ability to work independently and as part of a research team.
* Excellent English writing, communication and inter-personal skills
Required Education:
The position requires a Bachelor or Master's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or Physical Sciences.
To apply, visit http://www.kaust.edu.sa/employment/employm ent.html

EOE

Friday, January 27, 2012

CEET Top-Up Scholarships

CEET Top-Up Scholarships are available for graduate research students who receive or will receive an eligible primary scholarship* for study in 2012 and who undertake a research project within CEET. Graduate students who enrolled prior to 2012 are eligible to apply, however the Top-Up Scholarships will not apply retrospectively and will only be funded for the remainder of the duration of the eligible primary scholarship.

CEET Top-Up Scholarships are at a level of $5,000 p.a. renewable for the duration of the primary scholarship, and subject to an annual review of research progress.

Successful applicants will focus on research into energy-efficient telecommunications that are part of the CEET research program

Successful applicants will be associated with CEET for the duration of their candidature funding. Successful applicants will be expected to participate in CEET activities and will be required to provide regular progress reports. There may be some restrictions on IP subject to the nature of the research and how this relates to the IP ownership arrangements in CEET.

Applications for CEET Top-Up Scholarships should include:

1. CEET PhD Top-Up Scholarship Application Form
2. Full CV of the candidate
3. Research plan of up to one page (max. 200 words)
4. Letter of support from the student’s supervisor or supervisors
5. Current enrolment record
6. Academic transcript

Please provide submissions in pdf format and include the applicants name in the filename, for example, john.smith.pdf.

* Eligible primary scholarships include:
* Australian Postgraduate Award
* Melbourne Research Scholarship
* Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarships
* Melbourne International Research Scholarships; and
* Other prestigious and major stipend scholarships including Equity and Indigenous scholarships.

Applications should be emailed to: kfranks@unimelb.edu.au

CEET Top-Up Scholarship Application Form (664kb pdf)
CEET Top-Up Scholarship Application Form (787 doc)

Applications for this round close 31 January 2012

Monday, January 16, 2012

PhD Studentship in Vision Sciences – Cardiff School of Optometry & Vision Sciences

The study is entitled “Optometric characterisation of eye movements in
Huntington’s disease”

Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder
resulting in progressive movement, cognitive, and behavioural
impairments over 20 years. It results from dysfunction and death of
medium spiny neurons in the striatum and consequential basal ganglia
circuitry disruption. There are limited symptomatic treatments for HD
and no disease modifying treatments, although potential treatment
strategies are starting to emerge. For clinical trials to be really
successful in HD, more objective outcome measures are required.

Eye movement abnormalities are an early and inevitable facet of the
phenotype, but are poorly measured in standard neurological tests.
There is a literature on the use of eye movement abnormalities to
follow disease progression in asymptomatic /early HD, but much less
work on the characterisation in moderate stage disease (when most drug
trials are undertaken). Furthermore, several debilitating symptoms of
HD, such as postural instability, are known to depend, at least in
part, on visual input, but the contribution of vision to these
symptoms has not been investigated and a better understanding could
lead to new treatment strategies.

The aims of this project are to define eye movement abnormalities in
HD for the purposes of (i) understanding whether eye movement
abnormalities may contribute to symptoms such as postural instability,
gait abnormalities and apraxia, and (ii) to identify key eye movement
abnormalities that could provide objective outcome measures for
emerging clinical interventions. Individuals with HD will be recruited
from the South Wales HD clinic and the eye movement analysis will
utilise infrastructure and expertise provided by Dr J Erichsen
(Optom). Our long-term strategy is to develop a comparative analysis
in HD transgenic mice alongside the human studies (in collaboration
with Prof S Dunnett), and the student will have the opportunity to
engage in the animal studies also, according to interest, background
and time.

Funding Information:

To be eligible to have fees paid for and receive a stipend, applicants
need to be from the UK or from the EU and have lived in the UK for the
last three years. EU students would only have fees paid for and no
stipend. The stipend for the first year is expected to be £13, 590.

To apply you must also have achieved at least a 2:1 (or equivalent) in
a degree relevant to the project. If English is not your first
language you need to have achieved at least 6.5 in IELTS or equivalent.

This PhD studentship will be supervised by Prof. Anne Rosser at the
Cardiff School of Biosciences and Dr. Jon Erichsen at the Cardiff
School of Optometry & Vision Sciences.

Informal enquiries to: Prof. Anne Rosser by phone at +44 (0)29
20875188 or by email at RosserAE at cf.ac.uk

For further information about the School of Biosciences and the School
of Optometry and Vision Sciences, respectively, please go to these web
sites:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/biosi and http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/optom

For an application pack, please go to this web site: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/pg/apply/sendingapplication/index.html

Closing date: 28th February 2012

Thursday, January 12, 2012

PhD OPPORTUNITIES in Australia

The Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) was
establishedat the University of New South Wales in Sydney to increase
Australia’s capabilities in the space industry. The centre builds on the
well established UNSW strengths of satellite navigation, earth
observation and hypersonics, and draws on the huge expertise of
Australia’s largest Engineering faculty.

*PhD OPPORTUNITIES AT ACSER*

The Australian Space Research Program (ASRP) project “SAR Formation
Flying” is based at the centre. Working to user requirements, the
project is developing the business case, design and technologies for a
constellation of low cost and light-weight Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) spacecraft to image the earth at night and in any weather. These
will monitor floods in Australia and have application to forest
monitoring for carbon accounting, border protection, oil spill
detection, agricultural monitoring and ocean surface current mapping.

We are currently looking for PhD students to assist in this and other
projects. Current topics include:

- Deployable Antennas

- Ultracapacitor Power Supplies

- Image Processing

- GNSS Receiver Design

- GNSS/SAR Signals

- Radar Applications

For more information please go to www.acser.unsw.edu.au/phd.html

Saturday, December 17, 2011

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Doctoral Program in Energy Science

The international Doctoral Program in Energy Science is offered to provide
foreign students and researchers, who have a Master’s degree (or
equivalent), an opportunity to further their studies toward a Doctoral
degree at Kyoto University. In this Doctoral Program, Japanese proficiency
is not required since students can obtain the necessary credits by choosing
ones among a variety of subjects presented in English and their research
works are also supervised in English. An evaluation of eligibility for
admission will be made on the basis of the documents submitted to our
Student Affairs Section, Administration Office.

<*Five students* will be admitted with a scholarship from the Japanese
Government.>

SCHOLARSHIP

- Allowance: *153,000 to 156,000yen* per month for at most 36 months
(subject to change depending upon the annual budget of each year)
- Travel to and from Japan: Economy-class *round trip airfare*
- School fees: Exemption from the entrance and tuition fees

ELIGIBILITY

- Nationality: Any of the countries with which Japan has official
diplomatic relations
- Age:* under 35 years* of age as of April 1, 2012
- Academic qualifications: *Master’s degree* or equivalent (by the end
of September, 2012)
- Language ability: Good command of English (Japanese is not required)

DOCUMENTS FOR APPLICATION

For enrollment in October, 2012, the following documents must be
received*on or before January 27, 2012
* at our Student Affairs Section, Administration Office (address given
below).

- Application forms which can be downloaded from our homepage (see below)
- A copy of an official document verifying the applicant’s nationality
- Certificates: Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees (or equivalents)
- Official academic records: Undergraduate and graduate levels
- Recommendation letters: Dean of the graduate school and supervisor
(undergraduate and/or graduate) and head of the employing organization (if
currently working)
- Research plan / List of scientific publications / Brief description of
academic achievements
- Summary of Master’s Thesis (or equivalent)
- A copy of an official GRE (General test), TOEFL, TOEIC or IELTS
Academic Module score for a test taken within the last 24 months

TO ENSURE A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION

Each applicant should contact his/her prospective supervisor at Graduate
School of Energy Science Kyoto University before applying.

NOTIFICATION OF DECISION

The applicants will be informed of the result of the 1st stage selection by
Kyoto University *by around the end of March, 2012*. The selected
applicants will then be recommended to the Japanese Government as
applicants for the scholarship. Applicants will be informed of the final
decision *by around the end of June, 2012*.

CORRESPONDENCE

Any inquiry can be accepted at

*Student Affairs Section, Administration Office*
Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
E-mail: icenergy[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81-75-753-4745

For further details, visit our home page;

http://www.energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/admissions/index.html

Monday, November 28, 2011

Computer Science and Engineering

Senior Faculty required in Computer Science and Engineering

Jubail University College (JUC)

Investing in Future Generations

Jubail University College invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the positions of Assistant Professor and Lecturers in Computer Science & Engineering. In addition to holding a PhD for the senior lecturer post and M.Sc/M.A. for the lecturer post, successful applicants should have the following:

1. Two years post PhD or Five years post Masters undergraduate teaching experience with the following areas (Under Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's jurisdiction advertising years of experience is legal.):

Computer Science: Emphasis for teaching Computer Organization & Assembly, Computer Architecture, Computer Networks, Computer Communications, Operating Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Digital Logic Design, as well as general computer science courses.

2. Professional experience in curriculum development.
3. Proficiency in oral and written English and computer literacy.
4. Applicants with administrative and leadership experience in an academic setting would be preferred.

Candidates not meeting experience requirement need not to apply. Preference would be given to PhD holders, only applicants with relevant teaching experience will be considered.

JUC is located in coastal Jubail Industrial City, the heart of the prosperous Eastern province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. English is the medium of instruction at the university. Successful candidates with single or married status are offered very attractive employment packages including a highly competitive tax-free salary, settling-in and transport allowances, excellent and free-of-charge accommodation, health care and education for two dependent children. Additionally, successful candidates are afforded free air ticket(s) to Dammam airport, annual repatriation return air ticket(s), two months paid summer leave as well as two short national paid holidays and end-of-service gratuity.

Please visit the recruitment website http://rccis.bayt.com/en/home/ and submit your application online through following steps:

1. Create Username and Password.
2. Create/Post your CV online.
3. Search the available jobs.
4. Apply to the advertised job that matches your qualification.

Please submit your complete application to: delacruzj@ucj.edu.sa and cc ucjjobs@gmail.com

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