The College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (http://engineering.unl.edu) invites applications for three tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of assistant professor in the area of engineering education. The UNL College of Engineering is building a cohort of discipline-based education research (DBER) faculty to both collectively establish national leadership in DBER and contribute to research-based transformations within their engineering academic units. The UNL College of Engineering is particularly interested in those whose research centers on teaching, learning, and assessment at the undergraduate level and can extend to the K-12 and graduate levels.
Candidates will be expected to contribute to the academic programs in their academic unit in the College of Engineering, through teaching courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and supervising graduate research. Successful candidates will be expected to establish externally funded DBER programs and collaborate with researchers within the college on studying and transforming engineering education through fundamental and applied research. The primary faculty appointment will be in one of the academic units in the College of Engineering, depending on an individual candidate’s qualifications.
The DBER initiative at UNL’s College of Engineering includes the creation of a nationally recognized engineering education research center. Successful candidates will participate in establishing this center. This center will nurture and conduct rigorous and collaborative engineering education research within and across engineering disciplines. Fundamental and applied research will address research questions concerning the knowledge and skills, attitudes, and behaviors acquired by engineering students through formal curricula and informal programming. Center research will have an impact on teaching and learning locally while making national and international contributions to the knowledge-base for engineering education. DBER faculty will reside in their respective disciplines where, through their presence and participation on their faculties, they will build relationships and collaborations with their disciplinary colleagues to conduct engineering discipline-specific education research that focuses on aspects unique to the education and preparation of professionals in their discipline. The faculty will also operate as a community to conduct cross-disciplinary engineering education research focused on aspects common to the education and preparation of all engineering professionals and build graduate programming.
Applications must be submitted via https://employment.unl.edu (requisition #F_180126). Complete applications will include a cover letter, CV, research and teaching statements (4 pages total), and a list of three references. Review of application materials will begin October 15 and continue until the positions are filled.
As an EO/AA employer, qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and/or political affiliation. See: http://www.unl.edu/equity/notice-nondiscrimination.