Lecturer, Biomedical Engineer

Position: LECTURER.2.01 (EN.08.4)

Brief Description

Qualifications and requirements:The successful candidate must hold a professional degree in Electrical Engineering or Information Engineering, together with a formal qualification in Biomedical Engineering, and a Master’s qualification that renders the candidate immediately eligible for admission to a PhD programme. Applicants must demonstrate a clear intention to complete a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and to pursue sustained research activity in the field.

A minimum of ten (10) years’ relevant industry experience is required, including substantive exposure to Biomedical Engineering and evidence of ongoing industry involvement in an engineering-related discipline. The candidate must demonstrate strong engineering competence, including but not limited to coding, software architecture, machine learning, and data-driven methodologies. Experience in regulatory processes, compliance, and clinical evaluation within the biomedical engineering domain is required, together with proven team leadership and project management skills.
Duties:The successful applicant will be required to:
• Interface with industry and university-related units such as Wits Innovation Centre, with a view to commercial exploitation of biomedical engineering developments within the school.
• Accreditation of the Biomedical Engineering research laboratories.
• Contribute towards the research output of the School (peer reviewed publications in DHET- approved journals) which in this position would primarily relate to the pursuit of a PhD on a part-time basis.
• Develop an academic program leading to an ECSA-accredited 4-year Biomedical Engineering degree.
• Formalisation of the Biomedical Engineering Research Group.

Subject to workload management, additional duties may be assigned from time to time including the following, as and when required by the school:
• Biomedical engineering laboratory management;
• Teaching courses such as Biomedical Measurement, Instrumentation and Imaging and Biomedical Signals, Systems and Control.
• Undertaking various administrative and teaching duties in the School;
• Conceptualising and supervising the capstone investigation and design projects of final yearundergraduate engineering students;
• Supervising postgraduate students in the School.

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