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Computer Science
Award #9331
Category:  Lecturing/Research
Deadline:  August 1, 2008
Grant Activity: Teach two courses of the Ph.D. program in computer engineering, each course with 3 lecturing hours per week. Courses to be taught will be two of the following, depending on the grantee's area of expertise: Methods for Scientific Research, Constraint Programming for Combinatory Optimization, Software Engineering Research Topics, Interaction and Visual Simulation Environments or Information Systems Integration. In addition, there will be 6 meeting hours per week. The average size of the class will be 15-20 students. Students do not usually have to purchase books; they use the school's library.
Specialization(s): At least one of the following: computer architectures, operating system and networks, sciences and technologies of programming, software engineering, interaction and multimedia, information systems, or intelligent systems.
Language: English is sufficient.
Additional Qualifications: Ph.D.; either associate of full professor. Professionals and non-academics will not be considered.
Location: School of Engineering, University of Porto
Length of Grant: 3 months
Starting Date: September 15, 2009
Comments: Housing is not provided, but the host institution will assist the grantee in finding housing. Assistance will be given by Dr. Augusto de Sousa, phone +351.225081827, e-mail augusto.sousa@fe.up.pt. Approximate monthly cost of housing is between 300 and 600 euro. The host institution will provide computer facilities (Windows and UNIX/Linux computers and servers-high performance computing infrastructure), Internet access (wireless) and e-mail, as well as office space and secretarial assistance. The fall semester starts on September 15 and ends on December 19.
Staff: Program Officer Alisha Scott, 202.686.6244, ascott@cies.iie.org or Program Associate Alexandra Squitieri, 202.686.6232, asquittieri@cies.iie.org

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