Teaching Assistant Professor - Design and Manufacturing

Position Details

Position Description

The Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, invites qualified candidates to apply for a full-time, faculty position at the Teaching Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) level.

This position is specifically focused on Design and Manufacturing with an emphasis on Medical Devices and Technology. This position is on a 9-month service period with an anticipated start date of September 16, 2024.

The base salary range for this position will be $9,000-12,000 per month.

This teaching assistant professor will teach classes in all areas of Mechanical Engineering, with a special emphasis on designing, building and testing mechanical engineering prototypes that serve an important societal need, with a particular impetus on Medical Technology that addresses unmet clinical needs, as well as science and technology that serves the broader global and population health needs.

This position is in line with the growth plans for the undergraduate program in ME, and will focus on supporting the Capstone Project for senior undergraduates in Mechanical Engineering, with the opportunity to develop hands-on learning course for sophomores and junior undergraduate students, as well for graduate students.

Candidates will be expected to teach courses in relevant fields such as design and manufacturing of prototype technology, and a core area of Mechanical Engineering, such as mechanics of materials or thermofluid sciences.

We are seeking an individual to teach in diverse intellectual areas across engineering and design, including need and stakeholder analysis, ideation techniques, prototyping, ethics, and technical communication, as well as engineering computation (e.

g., MATLAB, LabVIEW), device fabrication, mechanics of materials, electromechanical and fluid systems.

The successful candidate will be expected to develop an internationally recognized program and to provide innovative, high-quality teaching, including incorporating diverse perspectives into their teaching and service endeavors and using evidence-based practices to support learning outcomes of students from a wide variety of backgrounds.

The candidate would also be expected to collaborate with members of the Department as well as other faculty and staff within the University and Affiliated institutions, participate in the Department’s graduate programs, and participate in the teaching, mentoring, and training of graduate students in the Department.

The Mechanical Engineering department’s research and teaching portfolio covers all aspects of the broad field of mechanical engineering, including interdisciplinary work in engineering in medicine, robotics and controls, materials, advanced manufacturing, and alternative energy.

The department currently has 39 full-time tenured, tenure track, research, and teaching faculty, 700 undergraduates, 250 Master’s students, 150 PhD students and 30 postdoctoral researchers and continues to grow.

More information about the ME department is available at .

Qualifications

PhD or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline.

Expertise in developing and teaching courses in relevant fields including design and manufacturing, mechanics of materials and thermofluid sciences.

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