Assistant/associate Professor in Control Systems - Hereford, United Kingdom - NMITE

NMITE

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Hereford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you have a passion for a different kind of engineering education? Do you have a vision for articulate and self-driven engineers with exemplary professional skills who can confidently tackle the interdisciplinary problems of the future? If so, you could be a great fit for the NMITE team

You might be an established educational innovator looking to take your impact to a new level.

You might be earlier in your career but wanting to develop your own teaching philosophy rather than being confined to longstanding structures and practices.

You could be an industry professional, with up-to-date knowledge, and a passion for shaping the next generation by moving into teaching.

Perhaps you have a passion for interdisciplinary engineering and technology that integrates the liberal arts. Our current team members joined for all these reasons, and more.

Who are we?

NMITE is an innovative new UK Higher Education provider, founded to rethink engineering and technology education and positively impact the region - educationally, economically, and socially.

NMITE's approach to teaching is progressive and connected - with contextualised admissions, active learning, interdisciplinarity, social awareness, and the integration of employers and the community in our teaching and learning.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a full-time, permanent Assistant or Associate Professor, who can develop learning experiences and teach in the areas of
Control Engineering and
Mechatronics.

The ability and willingness to teach some electronics, data science and AI would be an advantage.

Applicants will hold a relevant teaching qualification and/or Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, or be willing to undertake this in the probationary period.

Responsibilities of the Role

Develop and Deliver Learning Experiences

Prepare and lead modules within your field of expertise, assess learning, and provide timely individual feedback within NMITE's quality assurance framework. You will have the capacity to support learning from first year to Master level and will be enthusiastic about teaching students who are educationally, culturally and cognitively diverse.
Work with industrial and community partners - supported by an Academic Leader for Challenges and our Academic Partnerships Associate - to define projects and challenges that enable, contextualise and underpin planned learning.
Build on our collective learning, student feedback, and your own scholarship to enhance the student learning experience and continually improve the ability of students to systematically develop knowledge and skills at the required standard.
Contribute to an innovative, high-quality curriculum through development, design, implementation and improvement activities.
Be a personal tutor as allocated

Help NMITE Grow

Assist in developing external relationships and partnerships to enhance the academic programme and the institution as a whole.
Identify and develop your own area of leadership that contributes to NMITE's goals and the interests of the wider HE sector, for example (but not limited to) admissions, employability, EDI, assessment, outreach, or civic engagement.
Support student recruitment, outreach activities and the broader student experience as requested.
Actively follow and promote NMITE's vision, ethos and policies.
Be flexible, adaptable, and willing to take on other tasks as necessary to support the entire development and delivery of NMITE.

Developing Scholarship And Impact

Support the development, dissemination, and promotion of the NMITE pedagogy and approach to the broader engineering education community.
Demonstrate your commitment to your own continuing professional development and growing your professional standing.
Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of pedagogical practice in your area of expertise, developing and demonstrating your potential to model and advocate scholarly, evidence-based teaching.
In time and with support, develop and demonstrate your potential to contribute to academic income generation, such as through educational research grants, knowledge transfer funding or short course delivery.
Engage actively and productively with other areas of NMITE outside the academic team.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

Interest in engineering education and a desire to teach future engineers in a forwardlooking, unique, startup HEI
Experience of designing and facilitating highquality teaching and learning, with positive student feedback, in higher education
Demonstrable ability to teach control systems and mechatronics
Experience of facilitating active learning and assessmentforlearning strategies
Specialist knowledge in cognate fields consistent with the job description
PhD in relevant discipline
Proven success in working in productive and positive teams.

Desirable