Assistant Professor - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of Colorado•Colorado Springs, CO

20h•$91,000 - $96,000

About The Position

This position does not include new visa sponsorship for individuals outside the U.S. Candidates must already be in the United States with valid work authorization or an employment-based visa. The university will not initiate sponsorship for those who do not currently hold a U.S. work visa or authorization. If you already have valid U.S. work authorization or are on a visa that permits employment, we welcome your application. The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a premier educational institution that prides itself on academic excellence, research, and community engagement and is actively seeking two early career Assistant Professors to join our team! UCCS is committed to academic excellence, professional development, and fostering an environment that supports innovation and student success. At the base of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs is captivated by its stunning landscapes, making it a paradise for nature lovers. This city is more than its scenery—a mosaic of history, arts, and a vibrant tech scene. We invite you to join a community that cherishes outdoor adventure as much as forward-thinking growth, an exceptional setting for both career and lifestyle. The MAE Department at UCCS is relatively small; thus, all the tenure-track faculty in the department are expected to teach undergraduate and graduate classes while simultaneously developing an externally funded research program. Click here to learn more about the MAE department. Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering: Assistant Professors are expected to pursue and attract external funding for their research, maintain a strong and regular publication record, and collaborate with existing faculty in one of the traditional areas of mechanical and/or aerospace engineering, particularly in the areas of dynamic systems and controls and thermal and fluidic systems. MAE research facilities include the Advanced Manufacturing Lab, the Combustion & Acoustics Lab, the Computational Fluids & Thermal Lab, the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab, the Data-Driven Modeling Lab, the Heat Transfer & Applied Thermodynamics Lab, and the MultiPhase & BioFluids Lab. More information can be found by visiting https://eas.uccs.edu/mae/research/facilities. UCCS provides a state-of-the-art HPC cluster called INCLINE for use by the UCCS and Southern Colorado scientific communities. INCLINE’s state-of-the-art hardware was designed to support a broad range of high-performance scientific applications, ranging from compiler design to computational physics. INCLINE has better than 150 TFLOPS peak theoretical performance. This heterogeneous cluster supports codes with distributed (MPI), shared (OpenMP), and GPU (CUDA, NVidia A100) parallelization and has high-speed scratch storage and InfiniBand interconnect systems. The College of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS) at UCCS offers degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. The MAE department at UCCS places high priority on teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical and aerospace engineering topics as supports the department. The department is supportive of faculty disseminating research in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. As such, new courses may be developed based on department needs. All faculty are expected to participate in curriculum maintenance including laboratory courses. The MAE Department has dedicated instructional lab facilities that include the Fluids Lab, Instrumentation Lab, Materials Lab, Senior Design Prototyping Lab, and a machine shop that contains mills, lathes, computer numerical control (CNC) mills, and 3D printers. The machine shop is staffed full-time by a lab technician who provides training in machine shop practices and support with prototype development. MAE students have access to all of these facilities where they can experiment, design, prototype, and learn to use new equipment. The MAE Department is also building new lab and machine shop facilities for aeronautics, rocketry, and space systems, in support of the new Aerospace Engineering Bachelor’s degree program.

Requirements

A doctoral degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or a closely related field is required by the date of appointment.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the established essential functions and meet the physical and environment demands described satisfactorily.
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability, physical and environmental conditions required of the employee on the job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, physical and environmental demands.

Responsibilities

Provide instruction to undergraduate/graduate students.
Maintain a funded research program
Engage in service activities to support the University, city, state, region, nation and/or professional associations.
Provide mentorship to students and junior faculty
Participate in curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation.
Participate in meetings and other activities that advance the mission and goals of the department and college.
Other duties as determined by the Dean and Department Chair.