Assistant/Associate Professor of Engineering

Teaching

The successful candidate will teach upper-level courses such as machine design 1 and 2, heat transfer, vibrations, fluids, and dynamics. They will also supervise senior research projects of the engineering students and manage the engineering lab.

The faculty member is expected to advance student competency in the relevant academic discipline, utilize a diverse set of instructional methods, and have a typical teaching load of 300 student credit hours each semester and a total annual teaching load of 600 student credit hours per academic year (August 16 – May 31).

Spiritual Modeling and Mentoring

Faculty are expected to contribute purposefully and constructively to the spiritual development, vocational direction, and academic success of students. This is achieved by being accessible to and proactively engaged with students, modeling healthy relationships, and skillfully integrating a Christ-centered worldview with the academic discipline.

Scholarship

The scholarship of discovery, integration, engagement, and teaching and learning are valued at Cornerstone University. Faculty are expected to engage in these forms of scholarship appropriate to their respective academic discipline and in keeping with their professional research interests.

Service

Faculty members are expected to participate constructively in the life of Cornerstone, regularly attend and serve within a church whose beliefs and practices are consistent with the Cornerstone Confession, and contribute as appropriate to the broader community. They are also expected to interact with students in a variety of settings, serving as Christian leaders and mentors by effectively living a gospel-centered lifestyle, ministering, and discipling through a biblical worldview.

Qualifications

• A personal relationship with Jesus Christ and an active Christian commitment.
• A theology that supports the values and mission of Cornerstone University core commitments evidenced by an ability to affirm and sign the university’s doctrinal statement, “The Cornerstone Confession.”
• Able to meet the physical demands of navigating the physical campus to teach classes, labs, or clinicals on campus and/or in a clinical setting.

Skills

• Lean six sigma (green belt, black belt)
• FMEA
• EAP
• EPE
• Solidworks Pro
• EUNI
• Catia Mold Flow
• Ansys
• C++
• Python
• Labview
• Mini Tab
• Allan Bradley PLC
• Calculus