Assistant Professor - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Assistant Professor - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

College of Engineering and Applied Science

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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a premier educational institution that prides itself on academic excellence, research, and community engagement and is actively seeking two early career Assistant Professors to join our team! UCCS is committed to academic excellence, professional development, and fostering an environment that supports innovation and student success.

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Salary/Pay Range: $91,000 - $96,000 per academic year. Compensation will be commensurate upon experience and qualifications.

This position is Exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provisions.

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Summary

The MAE Department at UCCS is relatively small; thus, all the tenure-track faculty in the department are expected to teach undergraduate and graduate classes while simultaneously developing an externally funded research program.  to learn more about the MAE department.

Research

Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering:
Assistant Professors are expected to pursue and attract external funding for their research, maintain a strong and regular publication record, and collaborate with existing faculty in one of the traditional areas of mechanical and/or aerospace engineering, particularly in the areas of dynamic systems and controls and thermal and fluidic systems.

MAE research facilities include the Advanced Manufacturing Lab, the Combustion & Acoustics Lab, the Computational Fluids & Thermal Lab, the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab, the Data-Driven Modeling Lab, the Heat Transfer & Applied Thermodynamics Lab, and the Multi Phase & Bio Fluids Lab. More information can be found by visiting (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

UCCS provides a state-of-the-art HPC cluster called INCLINE for use by the UCCS and Southern Colorado scientific communities. INCLINE's state-of-the-art hardware was designed to support a broad range of high-performance scientific applications, ranging from compiler design to computational physics. INCLINE has better than 150 TFLOPS peak theoretical performance. This heterogeneous cluster supports codes with distributed (MPI), shared (OpenMP), and GPU (CUDA, NVidia A100) parallelization and has high-speed scratch storage and Infini Band interconnect systems.

Teaching

The College of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS) at UCCS offers degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.

The MAE department at UCCS places high priority on teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical and aerospace engineering topics as supports the department. The department is supportive of faculty disseminating research in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. As such, new courses may be developed based on department needs. All faculty are expected to participate in curriculum maintenance including laboratory courses.

The MAE Department has dedicated instructional lab facilities that include the Fluids Lab, Instrumentation Lab, Materials Lab, Senior Design Prototyping Lab, and a machine shop that contains mills, lathes, computer numerical control (CNC) mills, and 3D printers. The machine shop is staffed full-time by a lab technician who provides training in machine shop practices and support with prototype development. MAE students have access to all of these facilities where they can experiment, design, prototype, and learn to use new equipment.

The MAE Department is also building new lab and machine shop facilities for aeronautics, rocketry, and space systems, in support of the new Aerospace Engineering Bachelor's degree program.

Essential Functions

The duties and responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:

* Provide instruction to undergraduate/graduate students.

* Maintain a funded research program

* Engage in service activities to support the University, city, state, region, nation and/or professional associations.

* Provide mentorship to students and junior faculty

* Participate in…