The Fulbright Specialist Program is looking for a professor with U.S. citizenship for a short-term (approximately six-week) grant to help a Burmese university restart its undergraduate engineering program.
The engineering education position with The Yangon Technological University has a tentative start date between January and mid-March 2013. YTU is one of two science and technology-focused universities in Burma. The university restarted its bachelor’s level engineering program this month after a hiatus of more than 10 years.
Interested candidates may apply through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars website. For more information about the Fulbright Specialist Program, contact CIES at fulspec@iie.org or 202-686-6235. For more information about this opportunity, contact Sabeen Altaf, senior program officer of science and technology programs at the Institute of International Education, at 212-984-5442 or saltaf@iee.org.