[ale] Position Announcement

[Mary Trauner]

Hello,
Would you please consider posting this position for your members.
We are recruiting someone for as manager for our Scientific Visualization
laboratory.  While traditionally an SGI facility, we are expanding
the resource to include support for higher end graphics applications
on Linux and NT platforms across our campus.  The person in this
position will have the opportunity to build that support function and
work with many interesting people across our campus.

Thank you for your assistance.

Mary Trauner, Senior Research Scientist        		   Office: (404)894-6166
Educational Technologies/Information Technology	      	     Fax:  (404)894-4690
Georgia Institute of Technology              Everyone must believe in something.
Atlanta Georgia, 30332 				     I believe I'll go canoeing.
URL: http://www.gatech.edu/hpc/Mary.Trauner/             -- Henry David Thoreau


                         POSITION POSTING
          MANAGER, SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION LABORATORY

This position will coordinate the resources of the Scientific Visualization 
laboratory, including the use of primary application tools within the 
laboratory and management of the Graduate Research Assistants that are 
dedicated to this initiative. This position will report directly to the 
Director of the Educational Technologies Directorate within the Office of 
Information Technology (OIT).

This position will dedicate a portion of (his/her)efforts to the promotion 
and growth of the lab and to the establishment of a distributed support 
model that targets the changing market in high-end visualization and 
graphics development. Those goals will include assessing the need for 
campus-wide support in popular visualization tools (TecPlot, Matlab, 
SigmaPlot, Origin)

This person will also schedule and teach seminars, coordinate demos and 
lead brown-bags on various topics in visualization including but not 
liminted to the use of Open Visualization Data Explorer, IRIS Explorer,
AVS/Express, IDL, PV-WAVE. 

Additional duties will include:

 -- acting as a liaison with faculty members and researchers in order to 
    assist them with the performance of advanced visualization tasks. 
    This assistance may take the form of training and/or collaboration of 
    research. 
 -- Work closely with teaching faculty in enabling a visualization 
    component to the academic mission of the institute. 
 -- Work with the Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) 
    to assist faculty in developing visualizations for online courseware 
    and/or presentations.
 -- Maintain a state-of-the-art environment inclduing the aquistiion of 
    current hardware and software for the laboratory.

Desirable Experience includes:
    The above mentioned software packages
    Visualization
    OpenGL programming. (OpenGL will provide a basis for understanding the 
    tools mentioned above and will allow the Manager to develop non-credit 
    courses in OpenGL programming in the form of multi-afternoon hands-on 
    seminars, for which there is demonstrated interest need on campus.)

REQUIREMENTS: MS, or Ph.D. in Biological or Physical Sciences, Engineering, 
Science or related field. 0-3 years experience. Ability to conduct research, 
and experience in some combination of computational mathematics, biomedical, 
physical sciences, or engineering. Experience with visualization equipment 
and software is desirable. Please send resumes to: OIT, Educational 
Technologies, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0710. 

PVA: 42040 OIT CLOSING DATE: 10/25/00


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