Job Posting for Sessional Lecturer
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.
Date Posted: 06/03/2025Req ID: 43257Faculty/Division: Applied Science and EngineeringDepartment: Electrical & Computer EngineeringCampus: St. George
Contact Email Address: ugta.ece@utoronto.ca
Course Number and Title: ECE464H1 S – Wireless Communication
Course Description: The radio medium, radio communication system examples. Link budget: cable losses, propagation loss, antenna gains. Basic concepts of propagation: path loss, multi-path propagation and fading. Raleigh and Rician fading models, Doppler shift, delay spread, coherence time and coherence bandwidth of the channel. Analog modulation schemes and their bandwidths. Digital modulation schemes and their bandwidths and bit rates: BPSK, QPSK, MSK, GMSK. Basic concepts of speech coding. Error correction coding, interleaving, and multiple access frame structure. The physical layer description of the AMPS, IS-54, and GSM cellular systems. The cellular concept: frequency re-use, re-use cluster concept. Channel allocation. Cellular system architecture for AMPS, IS-54, and GSM. Hand-offs and transmitter power control. Cellular traffic, call blocking, concept of Erlangs. Basic ideas in spread spectrum modulation, spreading codes, bit error probability. Orthogonal and non-orthogonal CDMA Basic concepts in CDMA networks.
Estimated course enrolment: ~20
Estimated TA support: TBD Class schedule: Timetable Builder (utoronto.ca)
Sessional dates of appointment: January 1, 2026 – April 30, 2026
Salary: $12,919.97
Qualifications: Knowledge in the subject matter. Preferred consideration will be given to applicants who have taught the course before (or course equivalent), or have teaching experience in the subject matter.
Description of duties: Deliver lectures in accordance with the schedule specified in the course description. Perform evaluation of students' work and assign final grades. Supervise course TAs and address any issues of academic integrity that arise related to this course.
Application Procedure: Please complete a CUPE3902 Unit 3 Application form from ECE's Sessional Lecturer webpage then send the application and a detailed teaching resume to ugta.ece.utoronto.ca by June 24, 2025 @ 11:59 PM. Please label the PDF documents using the following format: LastName, FirstName - Course Code – Resume / Application. Additional material (cover letter, teaching dossier, statement) is optional, but if included should be attached as a PDF (naming the document LastName, FirstName - Course Code – Document Type) as messages in the body of the email will not be considered. If during the application and/or selection process you require accommodation due to a disability, please contact Jennifer Lee at ugta.ece.utoronto.ca. Further information can be found on ECE's Sessional Lecturer webpage.
Please note applications that do not follow the procedure mentioned above will not be considered.
Closing Date: 06/24/2025
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.
Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.
