Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering

Job title:

Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering

Firm

Heriot-Watt College

Job description

Contract: Full Time (1FTE), Open EndedDeadline: Midnight on tenth Could 2024.Heriot-Watt College has established a status for world-class instructing and modern, related analysis, which has made it one of many high UK universities for innovation, enterprise, and trade.The Faculty of Engineering & Bodily Sciences has a world analysis status and shut reference to the skilled and industrial world of science, engineering, and know-how.Job AbstractThe Institute of Mechanical, Course of and Vitality Engineering (IMPEE) at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh is looking for a brand new colleague to affix our thriving group of lecturers. We invite purposes from excellent early profession researchers for an open-ended (tenured) Assistant Professorship (Educating and Analysis) place in Mechanical Engineering.Detailed DescriptionWe’re on the lookout for a candidate with a concentrate on steel additive manufacturing (AM) processes whose analysis programme will strongly complement our current capabilities for the pragmatic enchancment of current steel AM methods and the event of latest steel AM applied sciences, by mixed experiments, measurement, and modelling.The candidate may even make use of their experience to show Mechanical Engineering to undergraduate and postgraduate college students through lectures, tutorials, laboratory lessons and venture supervision.Key duties and tasksThe submit holder is required to:

• Lively engagement in analysis.
• Actively pursuing analysis funding.
• Growing inside and exterior collaborative analysis hyperlinks and networks.
• Growing and delivering research-led instructing in Mechanical Engineering and/or Aerospace Engineering.
• Supervising and mentoring undergraduate college students, postgraduate college students, and postdoctoral analysis associates.
• Contribute to the supply of administrative duties.

Important StandardsCandidates will need to have:Analysis and Skilled Expertise

• Observe report of high-impact analysis in steel AM processes, evidenced by a robust publication report commensurate to profession stage.
• Ambition to ascertain/develop an unbiased analysis group synergistic with our current analysis capabilities in steel additive manufacturing, in addition to the broader analysis group throughout the college.
• Bold and practical future analysis plans, with the potential to draw unbiased analysis funding from exterior sources.
• Capability to ascertain and preserve inside and exterior collaborations.

Studying, Educating and Scholarship

• A PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a associated self-discipline.
• Willingness and functionality to develop and ship instructing for Mechanical Engineering and /or Aerospace Engineering.
• Wonderful oral and written communication, staff working and organisational abilities.
• Capability to work collaboratively with colleagues.
• Willingness to display versatility and suppleness.

For all standards, additional particulars and the way to apply:Heriot-Watt College is dedicated to securing equality of alternative in employment and to the creation of an setting through which people are chosen, educated, promoted, appraised and in any other case handled on the only foundation of their related deserves and talents. Equality and variety are all about maximising potential and making a tradition of inclusion for all.Heriot-Watt College values variety throughout our College group and welcomes purposes from all sectors of society, notably from underrepresented teams. For extra info, please see our web site and likewise our award-winning work in Incapacity Inclusive Science Careers .£45,585 to £56,021 (wage depending on expertise and {qualifications}) (Grade 8)

Anticipated wage

£45585 – 56021 per yr

Location

Edinburgh

Job date

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:11:31 GMT

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