Assistant​/Associate Professor of Engineering

Assistant/Associate Professor of Engineering

Cornerstone University is seeking a full time, tenure-track, 9/10-month teaching faculty for our engineering program. The successful candidate will have a master's degree in engineering. Candidates with a Ph.D. in Engineering are especially encouraged to apply.

The primary responsibilities of the full-time faculty are teaching, spiritual modeling and mentoring, scholarship, and involvement in and service to Cornerstone and the general community. The core of Cornerstone University is defined and driven by its Christ-centered mission and Biblical confession.

Teaching:
As an institution committed to academic excellence in a student focused learning environment, Cornerstone places high value upon teaching effectiveness and student learning. Faculty are expected to demonstrate ongoing investment in their own growth and development as educators. They are expected to advance student competency in the relevant academic discipline, while utilizing a diverse set of instructional methods that fit their academic discipline and teaching style.

At Cornerstone University, a typical full time faculty teaching load is 300 student credit hours each semester and a total annual teaching load of 600 student credit hours per academic year (August 16 – May 31).

Candidates should be able to teach upper-level courses such as machine design 1 and 2, heat transfer, vibrations, fluids, and dynamics. The faculty member will supervise senior research projects of the engineering students.

Other responsibilities include management of our engineering lab, professional engagement in the candidate's specialization area, faculty mentoring, student recruitment, course and program assessment, and other departmental duties as assigned. Eligibility for an academic rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.

Spiritual Modeling and Mentoring:
As an institution committed to developing devoted followers of Christ who will be equipped and empowered to influence their culture for Christ, faculty engagement in spiritual modeling and mentoring is essential. Faculty are expected to contribute purposefully and constructively to the spiritual development, vocational direction, and academic success of students. Among other means, this is achieved by being accessible to and proactively engaged with students, modeling healthy relationships, and skillfully modeling the integration of a Christ-centered worldview with the academic discipline.

Scholarship:
As an institution committed to academic excellence and cultural influence, Cornerstone is interested in cultivating faculty, academic administrators and graduates engaged in scholarship. The faculty of Cornerstone are expected to engage in forms of scholarship appropriate to their respective academic discipline and in keeping with their professional research interests.

Service:
Faculty members are expected to participate constructively in the life of Cornerstone, regularly attend and serve within a church whose beliefs and practices are consistent with the Cornerstone Confession and contribute as appropriate to the broader community. Within Cornerstone, faculty are expected to attend Chapel at least once/week and contribute to the work of the respective School by mentoring students, attending meetings, and serving on committees.

Regarding external service, faculty are encouraged to make their disciplinary expertise available in service to the various academic and professional expressions of their discipline and to the broader community.

All faculty will regularly interact with students in a variety of settings. As such all employees are expected to serve as Christian leaders and mentors by effectively living a gospel-centered lifestyle, ministering and discipling through a biblical worldview.

Engineering faculty participate in the management of the engineering laboratory, academic advising, student recruitment, course and program assessment, and other departmental duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements:

Unless specifically noted, faculty must be able to meet the physical demands of navigating the physical campus to teach classes, labs, or clinicals on campus…