Engineering Education
as an Occupation
Emphasis on Teaching Excellence
Leading practitioners in engineering education scholarship as well as the Journal for Engineering Education have brought to the fore the importance of scholarly research in engineering education. Going forward the next wave of engineering professors will increasingly need to pursue research-based innovation in teaching.
This page provides a subset of job opportunities for professors and post-docs in engineering. It is intended to show the variety of jobs in this area. Increasingly, the requirement for teaching excellence and educational research is a prerequisite for employment.
THE WORLD IS FLAT! Engineering education must be redisigned to fit it
North Carolina State University is working on it. Care to join us?
The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University is seeking to fill a senior-level tenured faculty position in Engineering Education beginning in August 2009. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in engineering or an engineering-related field and a strong record of achievement in engineering education scholarship, and should currently hold a position as an associate or full professor in a college of engineering. The holder of this position will be expected to:
- establish and direct a nationally-recognized multi-faculty research program in engineering education, raise external research funding, and direct graduate students in educational research at the Ph.D. and M.S. levels
- demonstrate excellence in undergraduate and graduate-level teaching
- provide leadership and mentoring to junior engineering colleagues engaged in educational scholarship and guidance on effective teaching and assessment to faculty colleagues in the College of Engineering
- participate in activities of the N.C. State STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education Initiative.
For more information about the position or the N.C. State College of Engineering, contact Dr. Richard Felder (rmfelder@mindspring.com), Chair of the Search Committee. Processing of applications will begin September 1, 2008, and continue until a suitable candidate is found.
AA/EOE. Also, NC State welcomes all persons without regard to sexual orientation.
Purdue Opens Two Engineering Education Positions
The Department of Engineering Education (ENE) at Purdue University is in charge of the First-Year Engineering Program and runs an innovative undergraduate program in multidisciplinary engineering. The ENE has developed the first graduate program in engineering education in the US. Some of the research interests of our current faculty include cognition, new pedagogies, epistemology, assessment methods, diversity and inclusiveness, problem solving and design, innovation and creativity, social or global issues, adaptive expertise, experiential learning, and learning for life all in the context of engineering. These two new positions offer a unique opportunity to contribute to shaping the field of engineering education.
Announcement (PDF)
Tenured Faculty in STEM Education Curry School of Education University of Virginia
The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education seeks an experienced, tenured faculty member whose scholarship focuses on educational outcomes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics. The focus of the position is the stimulation and organization of scholarship in the STEM fields, likely involving applied research in classrooms or with teachers, with an emphasis on developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions that improve STEM teaching and learning and that have widespread applicability at-scale.
Announcement (PDF)
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Mechanical Engineering
Rowan University’s College of Engineering has an opening for an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. This is a tenure-track position. The successful candidate will have expertise in the general areas of thermal or fluid sciences, either computational or experimental in nature. We are especially interested in applicants with interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary engineering expertise, especially in emerging fields of engineering.
Announcement (PDF)
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Civil Engineering
Utah State University's Department of Engineering and Technology Education has an opening for an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. This is a tenure-track position. Utah State University is a premier student-centeredland-grant and Carnegie Extension University that fosters the principle that academics come first, by cultivating diversity of thought and culture, and by serving the public through learning, discovery, and engagement.
Announcement (PDF)
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Electrical Engineering
Utah State University's Department of Engineering and Technology Education has an opening for an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. This is a tenure-track position. Utah State University is a premier student-centered land-grant and Carnegie Extension University that fosters the principle that academics come first, by cultivating diversity of thought and culture, and by serving the public through learning, discovery, and engagement.
Announcement (PDF)
Recent Job Opportunities
Penn State,
College of Engineering
School of Engineering Design, Technology, & Professional Programsis accepting applications for a Post-Doctoral Scholar position focused on implementing strategies to improve retention in STEM fields among 14 Penn State campuses.
The candidate will be one of the project leaders. Responsibilities include project evaluation that studies the effectiveness of specific implementation strategies. Additional responsibilities include coordinating activities among project leaders, providing leadership in writing the annual reports, and coordinating dissemination of project information to the broader community.
For project information (PDF)
Application information (PDF)
Everett Community College is looking to hire someone for a one-year full time temporary position teaching a range of classes in engineering and/or engineering physics. The position starts Fall 2008. We anticipate opening a tenure-track position for Fall 2009.
Announcement (PDF)
Professor of Physics
Columbia College
Lower Columbia College is anticipating a vacancy for a
dynamic, energetic full-time, tenure track Physics
Instructor.
Under the general direction of the Dean of Instructional
Programs, the successful candidate of this position would
teach freshman and sophomore physics and mathematics
course. Other general education science courses may be
taught depending upon experience and institutional need.
The applicant will need to have a demonstrated ability to teach engineering.
Announcement (PDF)
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Smith College
Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in its Picker Engineering Program. Innovative in both education and research, the Program fosters creative students interested in engineering a sustainable future as members of the global community.
Announcement (PDF)
Biochemical Engineering
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.
The Department of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology seeks an exceptional educator and scholar with a promise of excellence
in teaching, a strong desire for student interaction in and out of the classroom, and
commitment to technical and professional growth.
Announcement (PDF)
Post-Doc Position
NCEER
The Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research (NCEER) invites applications for the position of post-doctoral fellow. NCEER is an interdisciplinary community that is carrying out leading research on how to educate engineering students as adaptive experts who can predict and solve global technological challenges.
Announcement (PDF)
Director of Discovery Center
Purdue University
Purdue University seeks an individual with vision and demonstrated leadership skills to work in a very innovative setting as the Director of the Discovery Learning Center in Discovery Park
Announcement (PDF)
Faculty Positions Purdue University
Purdue University in announcing faculty positions in the College of Education , the College of Engineering and the College of Technology with their Innovations in P-12 sTEm Education initiative.