Professor & Head & Endowed Chair - Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Position Function:

The head is a full-time administrative position and reports to the Dean of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (CALS) and Director of the Mississippi Agricultural Forestry & Experiment Station (MAFES), the Director of the Mississippi State University Extension Service (MSU-ES), and the Dean of the College of Engineering. The head provides visionary leadership for all aspects of the department's current and future activities in teaching, research, Extension, and service.

The head is responsible for administrative management fostering teamwork among faculty, staff and students of the department by using appropriate communication, management methods, and organizational guidelines to develop, enable, implement, and evaluate programs. The head fosters relationships and communication with other academic and center/institute heads on- and off‑campus, and external stakeholders. The head is responsible for managing appropriated funds, extramural support as gifts, grants and/or contracts, allocating departmental resources, making timely decisions, delegating responsibility, and motivating faculty and staff toward accomplishment of defined teaching, research, and service objectives, as well as other scholarly activities on- and off‑campus.

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This position holds the William & Sherry Berry Endowed Chair.

The Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) has an energetic group of 20 on‑campus faculty members engaged in teaching, research, and extension, as well as several other faculty members at MSU‑affiliated research centers and adjoints employed elsewhere. We have a strong culture of mentoring junior faculty members to help them attain success. Our department is co‑administered by the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences and the Bagley College of Engineering, and it offers undergraduate (B.S.) and graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) degrees in three distinct program areas:
Biomedical Engineering and Bio‑systems Engineering, which are both accredited by ABET, and Agricultural Engineering Technology & Business. Within these programs, the department has roughly 400 undergraduates and 40 graduate students. The department has ongoing collaborations with MSU’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, and several other centers, institutes, and departments. The J. Charles Lee Agricultural and Biological Engineering Building includes more than 6,000 square feet of state‑of‑the‑art instructional and research facilities, and it includes labs for sterile tissue culture, biomechanical testing, environmental and agricultural simulation or modeling studies, electronic/robotic design fabrication and testing, GPS/GIS, renewable bio‑energy, and student computing resources.

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January 1, 2027.

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