[sessional Lecturer] Making Sense of Accidents

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada University of Toronto Full time

**Date Posted**:03/26/2024
**Req ID**: 36682
**Faculty/Division**: Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
**Department**: APSC Admin. Units
**Campus**:St. George (Downtown Toronto)

**Description**:
**Position**: Sessional Lecturer I (1 positions available at 100%)

**Course title and code**: Making Sense of Accidents - APS1034H:
**Course description**: Despite the best of engineering practices that include a focus on reliability, human factors, and

quality improvement, severe accidents involving complex technological systems occur regularly: bridges collapse, chemical plants catch fire and explode, airplanes crash, and nuclear reactors meltdown. The most comprehensive approach to understanding the causes of such disasters is based on systems engineering, which highlights the limits of traditional event-chain models of

causation. The course focuses on this approach using a group project but also provides an overview of the various sociological theories that attempted to elucidate the organizational and psychological factors underlying the failure of sociotechnical systems.

**Estimated Enrolment**: Approximately 25 students

**Estimated TA support**: TBA

**Class schedule**: TBA

**Sessional date of appointment**: Summer Session 2024.

**Salary**: Minimum level of pay is $9,457.89 which includes vacation pay and may increase depending on applicant’s level of experience and suitability for the position.

**Qualifications**: This course introduces the main theoretical approaches of systems thinking, organization structure and crisis management for understanding catastrophic accidents. Highlighting the socio-technical limits to the prevention of severe accidents, it emphasizes the importance of incorporating such insights in engineering design with the aim of reducing the likelihood of disasters.
- Applicants should have a strong record of presenting lectures and experience teaching similar topics. The applicant must be able to lecture in a clear voice and explain concepts clearly.

**Brief description of duties**: Duties include: preparation of lectures and course materials; delivery of lectures; setting and marking of projects, tests and exams; evaluation of final grades; contact with students.

**Office of the Vice Dean Graduate Studies, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto**

**Closing Date**: 04/07/2024, 11:59PM EDT
- This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement._
- It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail._
- Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement._

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