Open Date: Mar. 25, 2022

Description:
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to begin August 2022.

The Department has a particular interest in candidates in the areas of renewable energy, modeling and optimization of energy systems, next-generation controls of energy systems using Industry 4.0 technologies, building energy systems, and heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. This position is a part of college-wide cluster and supports Clemson University’s two strategic areas of research, namely, Energy, Transportation and Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Environments.

The Department and College are committed to fostering interdisciplinary research that can address grand challenges facing our society and innovate through a balance of fundamental and translational research. Collaboration with entities within and outside engineering and science is also highly encouraged. Applicants with exceptional qualifications will also be considered for endowed faculty appointment including appointment at the Full Professor level.

The Department has 32 tenure-track or tenured faculty members actively involved in research, teaching, and service endeavors. More than one-third of the current faculty members have received prestigious early-career grant awards. The Department occupies a modern research and education facility on the main Clemson, SC campus and has an enrollment of over 900 undergraduate and 160 graduate students.

Clemson University is a public land-grant institution currently ranked among the top 30 national public universities by U.S. News and World Report and is classified as a Tier 1 Research Institution by the Carnegie Foundation. The Clemson campus is located between Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC near Greenville, SC along the I-85 corridor in the beautiful upstate of South Carolina. Clemson is serviced by the Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP), Atlanta, and Charlotte airports and by amtrack.

The Department also has a new graduate education center in Charleston, SC with activity associated with the world’s most-advanced wind-turbine drivetrain testing facility.

Qualifications:
Candidates must possess a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field with potential to develop an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary research program.

Faculty are expected to actively contribute to the core graduate and undergraduate teaching missions of the Department.

Application Instructions:
This institution is using Interfolio’s Faculty Search to conduct this search.

Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge. Applicants should electronically submit the following via Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/104732

Guaranteed consideration will be given to applications received by April 22 , 2022; however, the search will continue until the position is filled.

Inquiries should be directed to:
Dr. Xiangchun Xuan, Chair, Faculty Search Committee
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
xcxuan@clemson.edu

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
Clemson University is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate against any person or group on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, pregnancy, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information. Clemson University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff committed to working in a multicultural environment and encourages applications from minorities and women.

Open Date: Jan. 24, 2022

Description:
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to begin August 2022.

The Department has a particular interest in applicants in the areas of dynamics, controls, system theory, data science, AI, robotics, and machine learning. This position is a part of college-wide AI cluster and preference will be given to applicants with expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data-driven decision making, with transformative use of data-analytics tools to applications involving autonomy, robotics, and large-scale complex systems.

The Department and College are committed to fostering interdisciplinary research that can address grand challenges facing our society and innovate through a balance of fundamental and translational research. Collaboration with entities within and outside engineering and science is also highly encouraged. Applicants with exceptional qualifications will also be considered for appointments at the Full Professor level.

The Department has 32 tenure-track or tenured faculty members actively involved in research, teaching, and service endeavors. More than one third of the current faculty members have received prestigious early-career grant awards. The Department occupies a modern research and education facility on the main Clemson, SC campus and has an enrollment of over 900 undergraduate and 160 graduate students.

Clemson University is a public land-grant institution currently ranked among the top 30 national public universities by U.S. News and World Report and is classified as a Tier 1 Research Institution by the Carnegie Foundation. The Clemson campus is located between Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC near Greenville, SC along the I-85 corridor in the beautiful upstate of South Carolina. Clemson is serviced by the Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP), Atlanta, and Charlotte airports and by Amtrak. The Department also has a new graduate education center in Charleston, SC with activity associated with the world’s most-advanced wind-turbine drivetrain testing facility.

Qualifications:
Candidates must possess a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field with potential to develop an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary research program. Faculty are expected to actively contribute to the core graduate and undergraduate teaching missions of the Department. Applications from women, members of underrepresented minority groups, veterans, and persons with disabilities will be particularly welcomed.

Application Instructions:
Applicants should electronically submit a CV, contact information for four (4) references, a cover letter and a brief statement of teaching and research goals (2 page maximum each) via Interfolio (http://apply.interfolio.com/102152). This institution is using Interfolio’s Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.

Guaranteed consideration will be given to applications received by February 28, 2022; however, the search will continue until the position is filled.

Further inquiries can be directed to:

Dr. Umesh Vaidya, Chair, Faculty Search Committee
100 Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0921
grant5@clemson.edu

Additional departmental information is available at: www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/me, Clemson University is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate against any person or group on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, pregnancy, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information. Clemson University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff committed to working in a multicultural environment and encourages applications from minorities and women.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
Clemson University is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate against any person or group on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, pregnancy, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information. Clemson University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff committed to working in a multicultural environment and encourages applications from minorities and women.

Please contact Prof. Wolfgang Wenzel at KIT for more details if you are interested in these openings:

1. A postdoctoral research associate for developing and validating multiscale models to describe the growth, structure, and electronic properties of soft matter (mostly molecular dynamics, in the context of our excellence cluster 3D matter made 2 order https://www.3dmattermadetoorder.kit.edu).

2. A postdoctoral research associate and a Ph.D. student to model the electronic structure of organic semiconductors for the Virtmat initiative (https://www.materials.kit.edu/298.php).(no posting yet)

3. A software engineer for the platform Material Digital (https://materialdigital.de/), see text at the bottom (unfortunately our personnel department accidentally closed the position, but we will reopen it)

Job description:

Method development, IT infrastructure:You actively work on the further development of the IT infrastructure of the Material Digital platform´(www.material-digital.de). You will expand the SimStack workflow environment (www.simstack.de) and work on its integration into the MaterialDigital innovation platform (PMD). This includes the provision of a web interface for the workflow environment and its connection to decentralised data sources, computing capacities and ontologies.

Application/Publication: In addition to developing documentation material and conducting tutorials, you will support project partners at KIT and national research institutions as well as industry partners in developing and implementing workflows within the PMD infrastructure. In addition, the methods developed in this way will be applied to current problems in cooperation with materials science working groups and published in international journals.

Expand/Support: You are partly responsible for the IT infrastructure of the Material Digital platform and are to support KIT in the application and implementation of new European/national projects in the digitization of materials research. This applies in particular with regard to the acquisition and implementation of third-party funding projects. Furthermore, you will be responsible for supporting users in the application and further development of the software and workflow solutions provided.

Personal qualification

• M.Sc. in Informatics, Research Software Engineering, Data Science or Data Engineering
• Good knowledge of software/workflow engineering, experience with object-oriented programming (Python, C++), experience with the creation of websites/interfaces (e.g. using Flask), container solutions (Docker, Singularity), databases (PostGres, NoSQL, Blazegraph).
• Good German and English language skills