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Department Chair:


  • Employer
  • Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
  • Location
  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • Salary
  • Negotiable
  • Closing date 13 Apr 2024
  • Discipline
Engineering
Job Type
Head of Department
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Permanent
Qualification
PhD
Sector
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About the Opportunity

Responsibilities
The department head is expected to work effectively in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment both within the department and college, and across the broader campus to:

  • Provide leadership to enhance the mission and activities of the Department by fostering a vision and strategy to strengthen its teaching and research, and to enhance collaboration with other programs across the network;
  • Promote and support continued professional growth of faculty and staff, particularly in the areas of educational innovation and research program development;
  • Facilitate a worldclass environment for research in the Department with active collaborations with academia, industry, and government agencies;
  • Advance efforts supporting diversity, inclusion, and access;
  • Represent the Department to the university administration, other university units, industry, and to public and private agencies at the local, regional, national, and international levels;
  • Oversee recruitment of worldclass faculty, facilitate professional development, and retention of faculty, staff, and students;
  • Work closely with associated inter
- and multi-disciplinary programs within the Department to ensure seamless curriculum management and recruitment of students and faculty;

  • Lead fundraising for Departmental activities, budget preparation, and management; and
  • Maintain a leading international research program.

About the department
- and inter-disciplinary work.


Our department has grown to accommodate an impressive student body of 3,633 individuals, making us the largest disciplinary academic department in the College of Engineering at Northeastern.

To cater to our students' diverse career aspirations, our offerings include 24 graduate MS, PhD, and certificate programs, as well as undergraduate majors in mechanical engineering (ME) and industrial engineering (IE).

Additionally, we offer combined majors such as ME and physics, IE and business, ME and design, and ME and history.

Furthermore, we have expanded our reach across Northeastern's global university network, now offering programs in both Seattle and Vancouver.

Our department thrives with a vibrant community of student groups, including AerospaceNU, BajaSAE, Electric Racing at NU, INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, NU Student Chapter), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, NU Student Chapter), NUToys, the ESS (Energy Systems Society), and DAESO (Data Analytics Engineering Student Organization) among others.


Requirements:


A doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or closely related field of science and engineering is required by the appointment start date.


About the College of Engineering


The College of Engineering at Northeastern University is a leader in experiential education and interdisciplinary research with a focus on innovating for global impact.

Our distinctive model of experiential learning, including Northeastern's signature cooperative education program, contributes significantly to our strengths in rich experiential learning, industry collaborations, and use-inspired research.

Our vibrant academic and research enterprise is growing in both size and stature. The college has 3,655 undergraduate and 6,826 graduate students, and over 235 tenured/tenure-track faculty. Engineering programs span Northeastern's global university system of campuses in the U.S. and in multiple countries.

Additionally, the college receives more than $115 million in external research awards annually and has 18 multidisciplinary research centers and institutes with funding by eight federal agencies.


Applicants should submit:
- a cover letter that includes the following: a strategic vision statement for where they believe Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is headed and a statement of leadership philosophies
- a detailed curriculum vitae, highlighting positions of leadership in particular

  • Statement of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging;
  • Statement of your own research interests, objectives and vision;
  • Statement of teaching interests and philosophy.
Please limit the combined statements to four pages.

  • DEIJB Statement instructions: Please provide a statement of your commitment and contribution(s) to diversity efforts that describes your past experience, activities, and future plans to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and belonging in your teaching, research, and service. Your statement should demonst
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