Tenure-Track Teaching-Focused Position in Mathematics and Engineering

Joint Appointment
Engineering Arithmetic within the
Stephen J.R. Smith College of Engineering and Utilized Science
and
College of Arts and Science
at Queen’s College
December 2023
Constructing on a historical past of interdisciplinary engineering training, the Stephen J.R. Smith College of Engineering and Utilized Science and the College of Arts and Science at Queen’s College invite purposes for a tenure-track teaching-focused school place on the rank of Assistant Professor with specialization in Arithmetic and Engineering. The popular begin date for the appointment is July 1, 2024.

{Qualifications}: The profitable candidate will need to have a Ph.D. in Utilized Arithmetic, Engineering, or a associated self-discipline by the beginning date of the appointment. Skilled engineering licensure in Canada, or the eligibility to acquire licensure, can also be a requirement. Be aware that every one types of engineering licensure in Canada from any province are thought of acceptable (e.g., P.Eng., restricted engineering license, and so forth).

The primary standards for choice are:
• Excellent instructing contributions at each the undergraduate and graduate ranges, and an ongoing dedication to educational and pedagogical excellence. Educating will make up roughly 70% of the place;
• Demonstrated excellence in analysis, together with a powerful publication file commensurate with years since acquiring a PhD and experience that enhances current analysis areas in Engineering Arithmetic within the Division of Arithmetic and Statistics and in Smith Engineering;
• Proof of a capability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary and student-centred surroundings;
• Sturdy potential for innovation and curriculum improvement in an interdisciplinary context;
• The flexibility to collaborate with school working in engineering training and/or engineering design in a wide range of engineering disciplines might be thought of an asset.
• A seamless dedication to prime quality scholarly work together with supervising undergraduate and graduate analysis college students;
• Proof of high-quality scholarly output that demonstrates potential for unbiased analysis. Capability to safe exterior analysis funding can also be an asset.
• The profitable candidate might be anticipated to offer efficient service contributions to the Schools, College, and broader neighborhood.

Given the interdisciplinary engineering and arithmetic focus of this place, the appointment might be held collectively between the Division of Arithmetic and Statistics within the College of Arts and Science and one of many Departments of Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Laptop Engineering, or Mechanical and Supplies Engineering inside Smith Engineering. Identification of the house division inside Smith Engineering might be primarily based on the expertise and background of the profitable candidate. The profitable candidate may even be anticipated to offer efficient service contributions to the College, College, and broader neighborhood.

Wage might be commensurate with {qualifications} and expertise.

Arithmetic and Engineering at Queen’s

Queen’s College is one in all Canada’s main research-intensive universities. We’re centered on being the standard chief in Canadian larger training and are devoted to selling analysis and scholarship of nationwide and worldwide distinction.

The Queen’s Arithmetic and Engineering (MTHE) program is greater than 50 years outdated and offers a novel mix of engineering and arithmetic. It has a fame each in academia and business for producing excellent graduates and has been absolutely accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) since 1974. It provides choices in Utilized Mechanics, Computing and Communications, and Methods and Robotics. Its energy derives from it being an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Division of Arithmetic and Statistics within the College of Arts and Science and Smith Engineering.

The Division of Arithmetic and Statistics is housed throughout the College of Arts and Science at Queen’s College. It provides a wonderful surroundings for analysis and instructing with very excessive requirements and a collaborative surroundings. It presently has Engineering analysis foci in Management Principle, Fluid Mechanics, Data and Communication Principle, Machine Studying, and Knowledge Analytics. For extra details about the Arithmetic and Engineering Program, please see https://www.queensu.ca/mathstat/mthe.

Extra broadly the College of Arts and Science makes up over half of Queen’s College and is dwelling to greater than 30 departments and items. It has roughly 450 school members and greater than 10,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate college students. It’s dwelling to the Division of Arithmetic and Statistics, in addition to two different departments that supply engineering science packages, together with the Division of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering and the Division of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy.

The Stephen J.R. Smith College of Engineering and Utilized Science delivers 10 undergraduate packages with over 3000 undergraduate college students, and 5 graduate packages with 500 graduate college students. Smith Engineering is well-known for its file of management in interdisciplinary engineering training, together with being one of many first engineering faculties in Canada to ascertain an Built-in Studying Centre, vital neighborhood service studying modules in First Yr instruction, an interdisciplinary “design backbone” coordinated throughout all undergraduate packages within the College, and the Expertise Engineering and Administration course in Chemical Engineering which pulls college students from engineering, enterprise, arts and science, and regulation.

Amongst our high priorities in Smith Engineering is offering alternatives for early profession lecturers to develop distinctive analysis and instructing contributions whereas fostering an inclusive surroundings the place all school can thrive. To advertise on-going instructing success, there may be assist for course improvement and supply offered by the Queen’s Centre for Educating and Studying and the Engineering Educating and Studying Group. Smith Engineering understands that we have to deal with making Engineering for Everybody and is working towards a extra various and inclusive neighborhood in an effort to make our studying and dealing surroundings higher, and to advance the observe of engineering. The College strives to make a distinction by means of commitments such because the institution of a Chair for Ladies in Engineering to enhance the proportional illustration of ladies in engineering, the brand new Engineering Strategic Plan, the dynamic outreach packages together with Indigenous Futures in Engineering and Black Youth in STEM.

Queen’s College

Queen’s College has a protracted historical past of scholarship, discovery, and innovation that shapes our collective information and helps deal with a number of the world’s most urgent issues. Residence to greater than 25,000 college students, Queen’s provides a complete research-intensive surroundings. Various views and a wealth of expertise enrich our college students and school whereas a core a part of our mission is to have interaction in worldwide studying and analysis.

In 2023, for the third yr in a row, Queen’s College has ranked in high 10 globally Instances Larger Schooling Influence Rankings, securing the place of third worldwide and first in North America. The rankings measured over 1,700 post-secondary establishments on their work to advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs).

From Nobel Prize-winning analysis exploring the constructing blocks of the universe to most cancers care and therapy to sustainable applied sciences, our college is tackling humanity’s most urgent challenges.

A member of the U15 group of Canadian analysis universities, Queen’s is dwelling to a vibrant analysis neighborhood that features 33 Canada Analysis Chairs and over 20 analysis institutes who work in partnership with communities, governments, and business to advance analysis and innovation, making a measured influence on Canada and the world.

College and their dependents are eligible for an intensive advantages bundle together with prescription drug protection, imaginative and prescient care, dental care, long run incapacity insurance coverage, life insurance coverage and entry to the Worker and Household Help Program. Workers additionally take part in a pension plan. Tuition help is offered for qualifying staff, their spouses, and dependent kids. Queen’s values households and is happy to offer a ‘high up’ to authorities parental depart advantages for eligible staff on maternity/parental depart. As well as, Queen’s offers partial reimbursement for eligible daycare bills for workers with dependent kids in daycare. Particulars are set out within the Queen’s-QUFA Collective Settlement. For extra data on worker advantages, see Queen’s Human Assets.

The Metropolis

The College is located on the standard territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe, in historic Kingston on the shores of Lake Ontario. Queen’s is an integral a part of the Kingston neighborhood, with the campus nestled within the core of the town, solely a 10-minute stroll to downtown. Kingston’s residents get pleasure from an excellent high quality of life with a variety of cultural and artistic alternatives, with entry to many pure areas and proximity to vibrant First Nations Communities together with Tyendinaga and Akwesasne. Kingston is a novel Canadian metropolis of 125,000 with a definite mix of historical past, recreation, business, and studying. Kingston provides waterfront dwelling with many leisure alternatives. It’s inside a two-and-a-half-hour drive (two-hour prepare experience) to the industrial, industrial and political hubs of Toronto, Montreal, and the nation’s capital, Ottawa, and a thirty-minute drive from the worldwide bridge linking Ontario and upstate New York. Town can also be the origin of the historic Rideau Canal system – a UNESCO Worldwide Heritage web site, and is near Frontenac Provincial Park, the Thousand Islands Nationwide Park, and the Frontenac Arch UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. The Queen’s College Organic Station, north of the town, encompasses 34 km2 of various lands, affording premier studying and analysis alternatives.

Software Course of

The College invitations purposes from all certified people. Queen’s is strongly dedicated to employment fairness, variety and inclusion within the office and encourages purposes from Black, racialized/seen minority and Indigenous folks, ladies, individuals with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQ+ individuals. Go to Inclusive Queen’s for data on fairness, variety and inclusion sources and initiatives. All certified candidates are inspired to use; nevertheless, in accordance with Canadian immigration necessities, Canadian residents and everlasting residents of Canada might be given precedence. Purposes from all certified candidates might be thought of within the applicant pool. With a purpose to assist your employment at Queen’s, we require you to point whether or not or not you will have a piece allow.

As well as, the influence of sure circumstances which will legitimately have an effect on a nominee’s file of analysis achievement might be given cautious consideration when assessing the nominee’s analysis productiveness. Candidates are inspired to offer any related details about their expertise and/or profession interruptions.

A whole software consists of:

• a canopy letter, indicating whether or not or not you’ll require a piece allow and/or require assist with an extension of your work allow sooner or later;
• a present Curriculum Vitae (together with an inventory of publications);
• a press release of instructing pursuits and expertise (together with instructing outlines and evaluations if accessible);
• a press release of dedication to – in addition to concepts and any expertise on how one can – guarantee fairness, variety, and inclusivity in scholarly actions;
• a press release of analysis pursuits; and
• letters from 4 referees, at the least one in all which should deal with instructing.

Software supplies ought to be submitted by means of Mathjobs.org. Suggestion letters could also be uploaded immediately on Mathjobs.org, despatched by e-mail to [email protected], or mailed to:

Division of Arithmetic and Statistics
Jeffery Corridor
48 College Ave
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
Canada

With a purpose to guarantee full consideration, full purposes ought to be acquired by February 10, 2024.

The College will present assist in its recruitment processes to candidates with disabilities, together with lodging that takes into consideration an applicant’s accessibility wants. When you require lodging through the interview course of, please contact [email protected].

Tutorial workers at Queen’s College are ruled by a Collective Settlement between the College and the Queen’s College College Affiliation (QUFA), which is posted at https://qufa.ca/collective-agreement and at http://www.qufa.ca.

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