Assistant Professor in Aerospace Engineering

Role

Title:

Assistant Professor in Aerospace Engineering

Grade and Salary: Grade 7, £38,448 - £48,337 per annum

FTE and working pattern: Full-time (35hrs per week) Open-ended

Reward and Benefits
: 33 days annual leave, plus 9 buildings closed days for all full time staff. Use our total rewards calculator:  to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.

We welcome applications for one position at Assistant Professor level to join the Aerospace Engineering teaching cluster within the Mechanical Engineering Teaching discipline at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. We are seeking a talented and highly motivated colleague to join our thriving global community of academics. We invite applications from industry or academics with relevant experience for an open-ended Assistant Professorship (Teaching and Educational Enhancement) position.

We are looking for candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Aerodynamics
  , including wind-tunnel testing and the application of commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software.
• Flight mechanics and aerospace control systems
  , including flight dynamics, stability and control, autonomous systems, and the modelling of aerospace systems.
• Space systems and/or space propulsion
  , including spacecraft and satellite systems, space mission design, launch vehicle technologies, and emerging space technologies.

The successful candidate will be required to lead and contribute to the delivery and assessment of a number of undergraduate, and postgraduate taught courses within Aerospace Engineering, part of the Mechanical Engineering discipline, specifically as part of our highly successful MEng Aerospace Engineering and BEng (Hons) Aerospace Engineering programmes Courses that the successful candidate may contribute to could include: ‘Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance’, ‘Flight Mechanics and Aerospace Design’, ‘Spacecraft Systems’, ‘Flight Control, Systems and Testing’, and ‘Space Mission Design’.

The successful candidate will also be expected to demonstrate flexibility in contributing to the teaching of a broad range of aerospace engineering subjects, as appropriate to the programme needs.

Teaching will involve the delivery of lectures, tutorials, and practical classes and may involve organisation of external expert speakers and field trips (e.g. to industry). It will be expected that the role holder will reflect on the delivery of courses and enhance and develop courses based on student feedback. Supervision of desk and lab-based research project students will also be required.

The successful candidate will also be a personal tutor to undergraduate, and postgraduate taught students.

The successful candidate will be based at our Edinburgh UK campus. Reporting to the Global Head of Mechanical Engineering, responsibilities include:

• Delivery of taught content of the Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering programmes (lectures, tutorials, workshops and laboratories) as directed by the Global Head of the Mechanical Engineering Discipline, and this may include topics across all aerospace/mechanical engineering subjects as well as the job holder’s specialist area.
• Act as personal tutor to assigned tutees.
• Supporting undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and other relevant areas by carrying out assessment and moderation of coursework and examination marking as required.
• Further developing existing learning materials in aerospace/mechanical engineering related subjects. This may include, but is not limited to, course notes, video podcasts and course assessments.
• Engaging in administrative tasks within the School’s teaching ambitions and initiatives.

These are the criteria on which the short-listing…