URL Educational and Employment Opportunities

Research Associates:

The URL hires research associates to help with projects. The qualifications required depend upon the project. Typically, research associates are given responsibility for a task and are required to help supervise students.

Post Graduate Studies:

Post Doctoral Fellows are employed in the same capacity as research associates but with the aim of furthering their training in research and supervising research.

Graduate Studies:

Graduate students in the URL work under the supervision of an expert from industry, a faculty member at SFU or both. A potential student should have a strong mathematics background as well as proven abilities in one or more of the following: hardware design, signal processing, statistical signal processing, or physics. In addition the student should have an interest in exploring the possibility of a career in ocean-related engineering and sciences. It is important that URL graduate students be self-motivated, able to work independently and have good communication skills.

Undergraduate Studies:

Undergraduate students are engaged in various subprojects for undergraduate thesis work, project courses, or co-op work terms. There are projects available that are suitable for students from first year engineering to graduation.  


Last updated: Aug. 24, 2005