About the Department

There are 11 full-time faculty with primary appointments in Environmental Engineering (ENVE), ~50 students in ENVE’s well-established graduate program of 50+ years, and more than 150 undergraduate students in our rapidly growing ABET-accredited undergraduate program that was inaugurated in 2012. Average environmental engineering research expenditures over the past 10 years at UC have exceeded $5 million/year. In addition to core ABET requirements, the program supports four senior elective tracks for undergraduates linked to our graduate research focus areas of Hydrosystems, Water Quality, Air Quality and Sustainability.

The University of Cincinnati (UC) is a thriving urban research institution located in the heart of Cincinnati, Ohio, with approximately 52,000 students and approximately 10,000 professors and staff. The University was recently listed by Forbes Magazine among the nation’s most beautiful campuses, with internationally-acclaimed facilities for teaching and research in a number of disciplines, including medicine, music, law, design and engineering. The College of Engineering and Applied Science at UC pioneered the cooperative education experience for engineers in 1906 and continues to maintain the co-op program and its excellent relations with the industrial sector, ranking 1st among public universities in this category in US News & World Report.

Job Overview

UC’s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering invites applications for multiple open rank environmental engineering tenure/tenure-track faculty positions. The appointment is expected to begin August 15, 2025. Rank, tenure, salary, and startup funding will be commensurate with credentials. Candidates will be considered in any of the program’s focus areas, including but not limited to:

• Water Quality – (Electro)chemical and/or biological remediation technologies for emerging contaminants, and fate and transport of pollutants within environmental and engineered systems.
• Environmental Biotechnologies – Systems biology in sustainable energy and biofuels, synthetic biology applications in environmental remediation, and sensing and material recovery from waste streams. 
• Hydrosystems – Ecohydrology, human-ecosystem interactions, agricultural water use, urban drainage, groundwater modeling and hydrological extreme events.
• Air quality – Pollutant transport/transformation modeling, air-climate impacts assessment involving public health, and community engagement/environmental justice.

Essential Functions

• Teach graduate and undergraduate engineering courses specific to their specialty areas (as noted above)
• Participate in curriculum and course development
• Develop externally funded research programs and build research collaborations within the department
• Conduct research in their specialty areas and publish research results in professional journals
• Advise graduate and undergraduate students
• Participate in professional service activities such as editorial and/or peer review, student career mentoring, advising of student organizations, serving on departmental, college and university committees, and performing outreach activities such as recruiting underrepresented students and holding workshops and seminars for industry

Minimum Requirements

A Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering or a closely related field prior to effective date of appointment.

Application Process

Interested candidates should create an Applicant Profile at http://jobs.uc.edu and provide the following in their application package:

• Statement of teaching interests and a statement of research interests, description of research goals and how the candidate’s expertise would successfully integrate with the department’s and university’s strengths;
• Current Curriculum Vitae;
• 2-3 original research publications, which can include a PhD dissertation;
• Full contact information for at least four references; and
• A brief abstract for a potential research seminar.

Review of applications will continue until the positions are filled.