Graduate Assistantship Positions

The College of Engineering & The Judith Herb College of Education

The University of Toledo is seeking two full time doctoral students (one from the College of Engineering and one from the Judith Herb College of Education) to work on project focused on cyber security, smart vehicles, and educational research within the National Science Foundation-funded grant called EXCITE. The position will be available beginning in the Fall semester of 2017, pending full award notification.

This STEM + C project focuses on the integration of computational thinking and computing activities in high school mathematics and career and technical education (CTE) courses.

Pending full award notification, the grant is anticipated to be funded through Summer 2020 and will cover full time graduate assistantships for both the academic year and summers. Summers are required for anyone accepting the assistantship.

Doctoral students will be required to participate in both the educational programming and research components of this program. Money may be available for travel to conferences when presenting research studies related to grant-supported activities. The assistantship covers full time tuition and the college-specific standard stipend for the academic year and summer. Assistantships are awarded contractually for fall/spring and summer separately; renewal is contingent upon availability of funding and student performance on the project.

For Computer Science & Electrical Engineering students, preference will be given to doctoral students with research backgrounds in cyber security, intelligent transportation systems, software engineering, or machine learning. Students are required to have a strong programming background.

For Judith Herb College of education students, preference will be given to doctoral students who are in mathematics education and who have experience teaching high school mathematics courses. Students in science or technology education or other teacher education backgrounds will also be considered. Preference will also be given to students who have either attended or worked at our partnering school district: Toledo Public Schools.

For more information about the doctoral degree programs offered within the College of Engineering or the Judith Herb College of Education at The University of Toledo, please visit the links below:

College of Education: http://www.utoledo.edu/education/programs/index.html

College of Engineering: http://www.utoledo.edu/engineering/

If you are interested in applying for these graduate assistant opportunities, please send your CV, letter of interest, and a list of 2 references to Dr. Jared Oluoch at jared.oluoch@utoledo.edu.

Women and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

UT’s Nurtures Early Childhood Science program has been selected to receive the American Association of State Colleges and University’s (AASCU) Excellence and Innovation Award for the Christa McAuliffe Excellence in Teacher Education Award. The selection committee stated that the Nurtures program can serve as a model for other institutions and help to advance practices in the field of science education.

Drs. Charlene Czerniak and Joan Kaderavek, distinguished professors from the College were part of the team leading this grant. Click here for more information about Nurtures.

The award will be presented at the upcoming AASCU’s annual meeting on October.