Assistant or Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where posting has real specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: application instructions, EEO, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Position specifics: tenure-line position in Mechanical Engineering at Assistant or Associate Professor level in area of construction robotics. Funding for construction robotics seeing explosive growth, global construction-tech markets surging, major startups raising massive rounds. Position aligns with efforts across Penn State in robotics and built environment. Co-funded by Department of Mechanical Engineering and Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation. - Department details: >65 faculty, 350 grad students, 1110 undergrad. Faculty conduct >$48M per year funded research across broad spectrum. Penn State encourages interdisciplinary research via university-level institutes focused on materials, health, energy. Department offers separate B.S., M.S., Ph.D. degree programs in mechanical engineering including online graduate programs in mechanical engineering and additive manufacturing and design. Dedicated faculty and staff forming strong sense of community and belonging. Link to department. - Cocoziello Institute: university-wide research institute within Office of Senior VP for Research focused on advancing innovation across built environment. Brings together >150 interdisciplinary experts in engineering, AI, construction, energy, materials, health, public policy to address complex challenges in how buildings and infrastructure are designed, built, operated, experienced. Institute faculty gain access to interdisciplinary collaborators across Penn State, industry and government partners, grant and proposal-development support, opportunities for industry-sponsored and applied research, Living Laboratory projects and testbeds, competitive seed funding. Link. - Qualifications: Assistant Professor should possess Ph.D. in engineering or closely related field by appointment start date; must have demonstrated ability as a teacher or research worker; must have shown definite evidence of growth in scholarly or professional achievement. Associate Professor: same qualifications as Assistant Professor, but must also provide evidence of an established reputation in scholarly or professional achievement. - Expectations: successful candidates expected to teach courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, develop internationally recognized externally-funded research program, contribute to operation and promotion of department, college, university, profession through service. Also assume key role in interdisciplinary research collaborations, particularly partnership with Cocoziello Institute. Should be collaborative leader who will promote and enhance excellence and innovation in interdisciplinary research. - Application materials: cover letter; CV; statement on research; statement on teaching; statement on alignment with and experience related to Penn State’s Values of Respect and Community; copies of 3 key publications; names and addresses of five professional references. System limitations allow total of 5 documents (5mb per doc) as part of application. Please combine all materials into a single PDF to meet 5-document limit. - Background checks: Employment with University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. - Benefits: Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional wellbeing. In addition to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, employees enjoy robust retirement plans. One of the standout benefits is the generous 75% tuition discount, available to employees as well as eligible spouses and children. For more detailed information, please visit our Benefits Page. (Note: For Postdoctoral benefits, please see our Postdoctoral Benefits page.) - No explicit Pay or Schedule info. So we should NOT create Pay or Schedule sections because they are not stated. - We need sections: About the role (maybe a summary), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. Possibly also "Department Overview" but not required heading. Use headings only from list. We need to decide what content goes where. "About the role": could include position specifics: tenure-line Assistant/Associate Professor in construction robotics, co-funded, alignment with robotics and built environment, etc. "Responsibilities": teaching undergraduate/grad courses, develop research program, service, interdisciplinary collaborations, collaborative leadership. "Requirements": maybe the qualifications: Ph.D., ability as teacher/researcher, evidence of growth, for Associate also established reputation. "Qualifications": maybe similar to requirements? Could combine but we need distinct sections if content differs. Could treat Requirements as minimum qualifications, Qualifications as preferred? But posting doesn't differentiate. Might just have one section for qualifications/requirements. However instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine into one section "Qualifications" covering both assistant and associate expectations. Or we could have "Requirements" for Ph.D., teaching/research ability, growth evidence; and "Qualifications" for established reputation (for associate). But that seems splitting hairs. Better: Have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits. Possibly also "Application Materials" but not in heading list. Not allowed to create custom headings; only those listed. So we must fit content into those headings. We could put application materials under "Qualifications"? Not appropriate. Maybe we can omit application instructions entirely (they said remove application instructions). So we can drop that content. The instruction says: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should drop the application instructions paragraph about documents, etc. So we do not include that. Thus we keep: position specifics, department details, institute details, expectations, qualifications, background checks, benefits. We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. If we drop application instructions, we are removing substantive info about required documents. But instruction says to remove application instructions. So we must comply, even if it removes some substantive info. So we will not include that. Similarly, we drop background checks? It's not boilerplate; it's substantive. Keep it maybe under a section? Not in list. Could be part of "About the role" or "Qualifications"? Might be okay to include as a paragraph under "About the role" or separate paragraph without heading? The instruction: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. It doesn't forbid having paragraphs without headings; but we should prefer sections. Could include background checks as a paragraph under "About the role" or maybe under "Qualifications"? Probably better to add a short paragraph after qualifications. We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact details: e.g., "more than 65 faculty, 350 graduate students, and 1110 undergraduate students." "conduct in excess of $48M per year of funded research". etc. We need to avoid duplication. Let's craft sections:

  About the role

  ... description of position, department, institute.

  Responsibilities

  • Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering.
  • Develop an internationally recognized, externally-funded research program.
  • Contribute to the operation and promotion of the department, college, university, and profession through service.
  • Assume a key role in interdisciplinary research collaborations, particularly with the Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation.
  • Promote and enhance excellence and innovation in interdisciplinary research as a collaborative leader.

  Qualifications

  Assistant Professor candidates must hold a Ph.D. in engineering or a closely related field by the appointment start date, demonstrate ability as a teacher or research worker, and show definite evidence of growth in scholarly or professional achievement.

  Associate Professor candidates must meet the same qualifications as Assistant Professor candidates and also provide evidence of an established reputation in scholarly or professional achievement.

  Maybe also include background checks as a paragraph under Qualifications? Could add a separate

  after qualifications: "Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies."

  Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Robust retirement plans.
  • Generous 75% tuition discount for employees and eligible spouses and children.
  maybe also note that benefits package supports personal and professional wellbeing. We need to preserve the sentence: "Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional wellbeing." Could be a

  before list. Thus:

  Benefits

  Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional wellbeing.

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Robust retirement plans.
  • Generous 75% tuition discount for employees and eligible spouses and children.
  We also might include note about postdoctoral benefits? That's a note but not relevant to this position (faculty). Could omit. We need to ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: department details: >65 faculty, 350 grad, 1110 undergrad; faculty conduct >$48M per year funded research; Penn State encourages interdisciplinary research via institutes focused on materials, health, energy; Department offers B.S., M.S., Ph.D. including online graduate programs in mechanical engineering and additive manufacturing and design; dedicated faculty and staff forming strong sense of community and belonging; link to department. Cocoziello Institute: university-wide research institute within Office of Senior VP for Research focused on advancing innovation across built environment; brings together >150 interdisciplinary experts in engineering, AI, construction, energy, materials, health, public policy; address challenges in design, build, operate, experience buildings/infrastructure; faculty gain access to interdisciplinary collaborators across Penn State, industry and government partners, grant and proposal-development support, opportunities for industry-sponsored and applied research, Living Laboratory projects and testbeds, competitive seed funding; link. We need to include those details somewhere. Could be in About the role paragraph. Let's craft About the role paragraph with all that. Potential About the role:

  The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University (University Park) invites applications for a tenure-line position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in construction robotics. The role is co‑funded by the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation. The department comprises more than 65 faculty, 350 graduate students, and 1,110 undergraduate students, with faculty conducting over $48 million per year in funded research across traditional and emerging areas. Penn State supports interdisciplinary research through university‑level institutes focused on materials, health, and energy, and the department offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs in mechanical engineering, including online graduate programs in mechanical engineering and additive manufacturing and design. A strong sense of community and belonging is fostered by dedicated faculty and staff. The Cocoziello Institute is a university‑wide research institute within the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research that advances innovation across the built environment, uniting over 150 interdisciplinary experts in engineering, artificial intelligence, construction, energy, materials, health, and public policy to address challenges in how buildings and infrastructure are designed, built, operated, and experienced. Institute faculty receive access to interdisciplinary collaborators across Penn State, industry and government partners, grant and proposal‑development support, opportunities for industry‑sponsored and applied research, Living Laboratory projects and testbeds, and competitive seed funding.

  That seems comprehensive. Now Responsibilities as above. Qualifications as above. Add background check paragraph after Qualifications maybe as its own

  without heading? Could be part of Qualifications but it's not a qualification. Could add a separate

  after Qualifications before Benefits: "Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies." Benefits as above. We must not include Pay or Schedule sections. Check for any duplicated lines: we avoided.