Part-time Lab Assistant in the Autonomous Vehicle Lab (Concordia Student Research Assistant)

Part-time Lab Assistant in the Autonomous Vehicle Lab (Concordia Student Research Assistant) Last updated : April 25, , 10 : 13 a.m. Department

Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering

Position title

Part-time Lab Assistant in the Autonomous Vehicle Lab (Concordia Student Research Assistant)

Posting period

April 25, , to May 2, . The posting will remain active until a suitable candidate is found.

Position start and end dates

May 5, through March 31, Brief description of duties and expertise

A part-time lab assistant is sought to maintain the autonomous vehicle lab located in EV0S2.. The lab has been funded by the CFI project entitled “Toward Intelligent and Resilient Smart Cities with Energy-Vehicle-Human Interactions”, and led by Dr. Chadi Assi.

The lab is equipped with Quanser Qdrone, Quanser Qcar, Quanser Qbot, a network of Vicon Vero cameras, different Quanser Qlab software representing digital twins of the Qcar and Qbot vehicles, workstations, Ethernet switch, and a Wifi router.

The part-time lab assistant must maintain and upgrade the infrastructure to ensure that all equipment is working, up-to-date, and properly used by the researchers.

Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science

Must be a current registered Master’s student is a Concordia degree program, at minimum

Familiarity with Quanser and Vicon software

Previous experience with mobile robots Principle investigator and supervisor

Dr. Chadi Assi

Salary information

22.14 / hour for approximately hours.

Application instructions

Interested applicants should submit their inquiries and / or application by email to Dr. Chadi Assi.

This posting will remain active until the successful applicant is selected.

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