Full-time Faculty Non-tenure Track Of Assistant, Associate, Or Full Professor Of Practice

About the role

The School of Engineering at Brown University invites applications for a full-time faculty non-tenure track onsite position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of the Practice, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027. We seek a visionary educator and scholar in design engineering and in engineering practice more broadly, with a preference for those whose work advances sustainability. The successful candidate will build a research and teaching program that treats environmental constraint as a condition of engineering design rather than an addendum to it, and will help shape how the School prepares engineers for a profession whose material consequences are now inescapable.

Areas of Interest

The School invites applications from candidates working in two connected domains.

Manufacturing and Product Development

• Design for manufacture
• Computer-aided design and simulation
• Rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing techniques
• Design of products and systems under ecological constraint
• Life-cycle analysis and design for circularity
• Low-carbon and bio-derived materials processing
• Remanufacturing and repairability
• Industrial-ecology approaches to embodied emissions

Engineering Education

• Curricular and pedagogical research on teaching and learning
• Preparation of engineers to reason about the social and ecological consequences of design decisions
• Assessment of design pedagogy
• Development of project-based, industry-engaged courses and other learning opportunities
• Study of how engineering education might itself be restructured around sustainability commitments

About the Environment

Brown University’s School of Engineering provides a unique environment, emphasizing the power of interdisciplinary thought with a focus on expanding connections across engineering disciplines and beyond traditional departmental and school boundaries. The successful candidate will become affiliated with one or more of the interdisciplinary groups within the School of Engineering and contribute to teaching efforts and research across the school. Brown University’s School of Engineering seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, viewpoints, and ways of knowing and learning.

Qualifications

• Education: A Ph.D. or equivalent in Engineering, Engineering Education, Design, or a closely related discipline is required by the time of appointment.
• Scholarship: An independent program of scholarship, with a record of contributions appropriate to the applicant's career stage and, where relevant, potential for securing external support commensurate with the rank sought.
• Teaching & Mentorship: A commitment to excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching, preparation to teach across the School's curriculum, and a dedication to mentoring a diverse student body within the classroom, laboratory and studio. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the School's curriculum, advise undergraduate and master's students, contribute to the joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering with the Rhode Island School of Design (MADE), serve on School and University committees, and contribute to curricular and programmatic leadership.

Opportunities for Collaboration

Opportunities for collaboration exist with the School’s research clusters, Initiative for Sustainable Energy, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), and other University-wide initiatives.

Application Materials

• Cover Letter summarizing qualifications; please indicate your primary discipline and areas of expertise and experience.
• Curriculum Vitae (CV) including scholarly contributions broadly defined, such as peer-reviewed publications, public scholarship, design work, curricular materials, patents, open-source tools, industry partnerships, and community-engaged projects as appropriate to the applicant's field and career stage.
• Research Statement outlining past achievements and future directions.
• Teaching Statement describing pedagogical philosophy, student mentorship, and experience including any project-based learning or similar approaches; address how you would contribute to the teaching mission of our diverse and inclusive university community.
• References: Provide the names of three references; these individuals will not be contacted unless the candidate is chosen to move forward in the selection process. Letters of support should speak to the candidate’s potential as a scholar, colleague, mentor, and teacher.

Inquiries about the position should be directed to soefa@brown.edu.