Tenure Track Physicist

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We seek mission-driven professionals who are passionate about student success, innovation and making an impact. If you thrive in an environment that values curiosity, collaboration and the power of transformative education, we invite you to bring your talents to Augustana.

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The Department of Physics, Engineering, and Astronomy at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track position in Physics beginning in August of the  academic year. This is an exciting opportunity to join a department with well-established undergraduate programs in Physics, Engineering-Physics, Teaching Physics, and an ABET-accredited B.S. in General Engineering.

Our new colleague will join a growing Physics, Engineering-Physics, Engineering, and Astronomy program. The successful candidate will teach 24 credits per 10-month academic year (standard courses are 4 credits) of introductory and upper-level physics courses and labs. The candidate is encouraged to contribute specialty courses related to their sub-field (particularly those that may be interdisciplinary) as well as contribute to the general education program.

Preference will be given to experimentalists. The candidate will be expected to develop a research program appropriate for undergraduate involvement. Additionally, the successful candidate will participate in service to the department and the Augustana College community. Additional information about the department, including offered courses, may be found here.

The candidate will join an active, ten-member department with disciplinary interests in thermal fluids, environmental fluid dynamics, 3D printing and design, signal processing, quantum photonics, nuclear physics, planetary and stellar magnetic fields, observational astronomy, physics education, and planetarium directing. The department houses research spaces for environmental fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, nuclear physics, and quantum photonics. The department has a newly designed Maker Space with 3D printers, a laser cutter, a scanning electron microscope, a CNC mill, and a welding station.

Instructional spaces include a newly renovated electronics lab, design lab, and studio physics teaching spaces. The department is committed to supporting candidates' professional development in research and teaching. Candidates will need to participate in interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching and/or research given the disciplinary diversity of the department.

• Potential for teaching excellence
• Commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and the value of a broadly educated person
• Ability to recruit, engage, and mentor students of many backgrounds both in and out of the classroom
• Potential to meaningfully engage undergraduate students in…