Professor Practice

Job Title: Professor of the Practice

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job : 295333

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work‑life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top‑ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top‑ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

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The Woodruff School graduates high‑caliber mechanical engineers for a demanding profession. Mechanical engineers are the foundation of today's technological world. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment and we attract outstanding faculty and students. In this period of rapid technological change, the Woodruff School produces mechanical engineers who are vital to our future.

With approximately 3,000 students, 100 faculty members, and 70 staff members, we are one of the largest mechanical engineering programs in the country. We are consistently ranked as one of the top 10 mechanical engineering programs in the U.S. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and continuously innovate to keep our school at the forefront of engineering education. Our size and resources allow us to offer a diversity of educational and research opportunities that enable us to produce highly sought after engineering professionals.

Atlanta, GA

The Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering is seeking to strengthen its industrial and professional expertise to better support student education and faculty research. To that end, the school is looking to hire a Professor of the Practice with substantial industry experience. This individual will help foster industry collaborations and build coordinated research and educational activities across the school's key areas of emphasis:
Energy, Health, Transportation, Advanced Manufacturing, Intelligent Systems, and National Security.

• Develop industrial connections with ME faculty to boost industry‑funded research and education.
• Help identify connections to industry for micro credentialing.
• Help develop professional education courses and modules in the areas of emphasis:
  Energy, Health, Transportation, Advanced Manufacturing, Intelligent Systems, and National Security.
• Other duties as assigned.

Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field OR terminal degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.

Please contact Ms. Shin Ae Cho ech.edu for additional information.

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