Assistant​/Associate Professor - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Hiring Department

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

This is an exceptional moment to launch an academic career here. The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is the largest department on campus, and each of its degree programs isthe largest and highest-ranked among public institutions in Missouri. The department has nearly tripled its research expenditures over the last four years and has a long-established record of research excellence, with five junior faculty havingreceived CAREER and DoD Young Investigator awards in the last tenyears.

Several Ph.D. students have received prestigious fellowshipsfrom NASA, NSF, and DoD, and the department is also home to the Missouri Space Grant Consortium , a NASA-funded, statewideprogram supporting space-related research, fellowships, and outreach.

Housed in a state-of-the-art 145,000-square-foot facility, the department includes 28 internationally recognizedtenured/tenure-track faculty, 9 teaching faculty, 10 staff members,over 140 graduate students (including 80 Ph.D. students), over1,400 undergraduate students, and over 12,000 living alumni. We are equally proud of our many award-winning teachers and deeply valueexcellence in the classroom. We are looking for colleagues who areas energized by mentoring and teaching students in the classroom and laboratory as they are by advancing the frontiers of their research field, and who will help us continue to prepare engineers who are as strong in fundamentals and hands-on practice as they arein emerging computational and AI-enabled tools.

The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) in Rolla,Missouri invites outstanding applicants for tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant or associate professor rank in mechanical engineering. We welcome candidates across a broad range of research areas that complement and expand the department’sstrengths in mechanical engineering. Areas of particular interestinclude, but are not limited to, autonomous and intelligentsystems, physical AI, thermal and energy sciences, and dynamics and controls.

Relevant topics may include embodied and physicalAI, robotics and robot learning, human-robot and human-machinecollaboration, autonomous ground, aerial, and space systems,thermal management, energy conversion and storage, sustainable energy systems, and nonlinear, optimal, and learning-based controlof cyber-physical systems. Excellent candidates in other fieldsrelevant to mechanical engineering are also encouraged toapply.

Qualified candidates will possess a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or aclosely related field by the time of appointment. Successful applicants will also demonstrate alignment with one or more of Missouri S&T’s multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator research centers and programs, including the Intelligent Systems Center, the Center for Research in Energy andthe Environment, and the Kummer Center for Advanced Manufacturing — collaborative homes where new faculty quicklyfind co-investigators, graduate students, and shared facilities.

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