Tenure-Track: Assistant or Associate Professor - Thermo-Fluids

The J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position with a nine-month academic appointment, and the possibility of an additional summer appointment contingent upon need and availability of funds, beginning fall 2027. Applicants will be considered for the faculty titles of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor depending on qualifications and credentials.

The department will consider candidates with demonstrated expertise and experience in thermo-fluids science and engineering, encompassing both fundamental and applied research in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and energy-related systems. Particular interest is directed toward researchers advancing the understanding, modeling, experimentation, prediction, and control of complex fluid-thermal phenomena. Fundamental areas of interest include turbulence, flow instabilities, multiphase flows, environmental flows, combustion, reacting flows, thermal management, and hypersonic propulsion.

The department welcomes expertise in both computational and experimental approaches, including computational fluid dynamics, data-driven and machine learning methods, reduced-order modeling, uncertainty quantification, and advanced measurement and diagnostic techniques. Applications may span aerospace and propulsion systems, energy conversion and storage, advanced manufacturing, defense technologies, and emerging engineering systems where fluid, thermal, and reacting-flow processes play a critical role. Successful candidates will join a collaborative and interdisciplinary community of faculty addressing pressing challenges in energy, transportation, and advanced engineering systems, with the goal of developing transformative scientific insights and impactful engineering solutions.

The successful applicant will be required to teach, advise and mentor graduate students, develop an independent, externally funded research program, participate in all aspects of the department’s activities, and serve the profession. Strong written and verbal communication skills are required. Applicants must have an earned doctorate in mechanical engineering or a closely related engineering or science discipline. Applicants should consult the department’s website to review our academic and research programs ((Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).).

The J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas has a strong local, national, and international reputation as a premier undergraduate and graduate education and research program. The department's undergraduate program is ranked No. 7 and its graduate program is ranked No. 6 among public institutions by U.S. News & World Report. The department ranks No.

1 nationally among public mechanical engineering programs, according to the Shanghai Ranking global ranking of academic subjects. The department has 76 tenured or tenure track faculty and 25 research and teaching professionals that support our teaching, research, and service missions. The department has approximately 1,500 undergraduate students (sophomore-senior) and over 325 Ph.D. students critical to our mission. Our doctoral program produces highly trained mechanical engineers for placement as professors and researchers at competitive universities, in industries in Texas, the nation, and internationally, and as researchers in national laboratories.

There is also a large M.S. program with approximately 175 students who are an integral part of the research enterprise of the department. Mechanical engineering graduate students are supported by a broad spectrum of funding sources, including federal and international research grants, industrial contracts, and through major research centers, such as the Turbo machinery Laboratory, Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems, Center of Innovation in Mechanics for Design, INVENT Lab, Star Lab and the Energy Systems Laboratory.

We also have about 75 Master of Engineering students enrolled.

Texas A&M University is located in the twin cities of Bryan and College…