Teaching Assistant Intern - Materials Engineering

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Hiring Unit:

Materials Engineering

Position Summary:
A unionized contractual appointment. A Teaching Assistant is employed to assist the Course Supervisor as a Teaching Assistant in a classroom environment. A Teaching Assistant works under the guidance and supervision of the Course Supervisor who is responsible for setting the course objectives, content and method of instruction as well as final grades and grading practices of the course. Duties vary by course.

Qualifications:

Varies by course. Applicants must be McGill graduate students in good standing in the Winter 2027 term.

The student must be present and available to work for the whole semester. Please review the job descriptions below to make sure you have the qualifications needed for the positions you are applying for.

Hiring Procedure:

Use this application form to apply to any of the positions currently being posted (see the list below). You will have the opportunity to list your ranked top choices of courses for the Winter 2027 semester by uploading the completed TA application form to your application in Workday: https://www.mcgill.ca/hr/files/hr/1_-_graduate_student_application_for_ta_-_english_-_jan_2021_-_fillable.pdf 

Upload the application form before you upload your CV.

Positions currently available:

MIME 209 – Mathematical Applications (1 position at 68 hours)

Duties: Preparation and leading of tutorials, managing the myCourses site.

Requirements: Must have successfully completed MIME 209 with at least an A-.

MIME 212 – Engineering Thermodynamics (1 position at 47 hours)

Duties: Preparation and leading of tutorials, assistance in preparation of midterm and final exams.

Requirements: Requires good knowledge of thermodynamics (both theory and practice), public speaking ability, good communication skills. Must have previously taken this course or equivalent and preferably have been a teaching assistant for this course. Past TA duties must include marking and tutoring.

MIME 260 - Materials Science and Engineering (1 position at 30 hours)

Duties: Preparation and leading tutorials, meeting with students, invigilation of exams.

Requirements: Must have previously taken this course and must preferably have previously been a teaching assistant for this course. Past TA duties must include marking or tutoring.

MIME 260 - Materials Science and Engineering Labs (2 positions at 78 hours each)

Duties: Laboratory demonstrations and marking of lab reports.

Requirements: Requires public speaking ability. Open to Materials Engineering graduate students only. Preferably have previously been a teaching assistant for this course or with relevant experience and knowledge (Mechanical properties/Rolling). Past TA duties must include marking and demoing.

MIME 311 – Modelling and Automatic Control (1 position at 60 hours)

Duties: Preparation of and leading tutorials.

Requirements: Must have taken a similar control course and be familiar with its overall objectives, as well as the full mathematical formalism of Laplace transforms and transfer functions.  Should have experience good with Matlab. Should have previously taken this course and/or have previously been a teaching assistant for this course. Past TA duties must include tutoring. Requires public speaking ability. Open only to graduate students with a background in computer-aided modeling and/or those who have previously taken the course as an undergraduate at McGill.

MIME 341 – Introduction to Mineral Processing (3 positions at 100 hours each)

Duties: Lab preparation and demonstration lab work, grading Lab reports. Office Hours for students. French translation.  

Requirements: Must be familiar with Mineral Processing principles. Requires public speaking ability. Open to graduate students with Mineral Processing research experience only. Must have previously taken this course or equivalent and ideally have previously been a teaching assistant for this course. Past TA duties must include laboratory demonstration, grading and translation.

MIME 452 – Process and Materials Design (3 positions at 67 hours each)

Duties: Responsible for giving process and materials design advice and technical writing feedback to more than one student group. Responsible for giving constructive technical writing and content feedback on five design reports that include defining a engineering design basis, the creation and evaluation of many design options, and the selection and estimation of one design option. Process estimation includes process design, mass and energy balance calculations, capital and operating cost estimates, financial analysis, and societal and environmental impacts. Responsible for giving detailed technical writing feedback and updating grades on myCourses. Responsible for meeting with and guiding student groups. Responsible for grading one quiz on the subject of mass and energy balances.

Requirements: Must have previously taken this course, equivalent courses or equivalent industry experience, and preferably have been a teaching assistant for this course. Past TA duties must include marking, technical writing feedback and grading, mass and energy balance work, process design, and experience working with myCourses.

MIME 455 – Advanced Process Engineering (1 position at 80 hours)

Duties: Preparation and leading of tutorials.

Requirements: Must be specialized in the field of transport phenomena with particular emphasis on heat and mass transfer, a working knowledge of exact and approximate solutions to partial differential equations.  Computing skills with emphasis on programming in FORTRAN and other high-level languages.  Knowledge of both the implicit and explicit finite difference schemes to solve different equations is essential. Must have previously taken this course or equivalent.  Must have preferably been a teaching assistant for this course. Past TA duties must include supervision of students, tutoring, leading tutorials.

MIME 456 – Steelmaking and Steel Processing (1 position at 80 hours)

Duties: Preparation of and leading tutorials.

Requirements: Requires public speaking ability. Must have previously taken this course or equivalent and be familiar with course content. Must preferably have been a teaching assistant for this course. Past TA duties must include tutorial preparation and tutoring.

MIME 473 – Introduction to Computational Materials Design (1 position at 65 hours)

Duties: Provide technical support in tutorials to help students resolve issues when running computer simulations in Windows, Mac or Linux environments. Grading of course related assignments. Invigilation of midterm.

Requirements: Requires public speaking ability. Open to Computer-aided Modeling graduate students only who have previously taken MIME 573 and preferably have been a teaching assistant for MIME 573. Past TA duties must include demonstration and tech support.

MIME 559 – Aluminum Physical Metallurgy (1 position at 70 hours)

Duties: Help with thermodynamic simulations for alloy design and grading assistance with term assignment and term quiz.

Requirements: Must have proficiency in performing FactSage thermodynamic calculations.  Having taken this course (or equivalent) previously or having worked with thermodynamic alloy simulations is an asset.

MIME 572 – Computational Thermodynamics (1 position at 40 hours)

Duties: Providing technical and theoretical support to students during their personal computational thermodynamics project. Attend and grade student presentations. Attend and grade student oral exam.

Requirements: PhD or Master’s student whose project is in extractive and/or process metallurgy and/or computational thermodynamics.

Total Number of Positions: 17

Hourly Salary: $38.46

Position Start Date: January 5, 2027

Position End Date: April 30, 2027

Deadline to Apply: November 2, 2026

Immigration Stipulation (Obligatory for non-Canadian candidates without permanent residency who will reside in Canada only): In accordance with Canadian and Quebec law, the present offer is conditional upon your obtaining the appropriate work authorization from any or all of the following as applicable: Citizenship & Immigration Canada, Immigration Quebec and Employment & Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Before applying, please note that to work at McGill University, you must be both authorized to work in Canada and willing to work in the province of Quebec at the campus where the position is based / located.

McGill University is an English-language university where most teaching and research activities are conducted in the English language, thereby requiring English communication both verbally and in writing.

McGill University is committed to equity and diversity within its community and values academic rigour and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.

At McGill, research that reflects diverse intellectual traditions, methodologies, and modes of dissemination and translation is valued and encouraged. Candidates are invited to demonstrate their research impact both within and across academic disciplines and in other sectors, such as government, communities, or industry.

McGill further recognizes and fairly considers the impact of leaves (e.g., family care or health-related) that may contribute to career interruptions or slowdowns. Candidates are encouraged to signal any leave that affected productivity, or that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate’s record.

McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated equity groups to self-identify. It further seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of persons with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [email protected].

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.