Open Faculty Positions
The Department of Electrical Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at all levels. Preferred candidates must hold a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline with appropriate experience. The successful candidates will be expected to establish and sustain an outstanding research program and must have outstanding ability to teach effectively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department has 36 tenured/tenure-track faculty members, with annual research expenditures of approximately $13.5 million. The undergraduate (juniors and seniors) and graduate programs currently enroll over 550 and 220 students, respectively.
Exceptional candidates from a broad range of areas in electrical and computer engineering will be considered, including devices, communications, networking, signal processing, big data analysis, and energy systems. Areas of particular interest include solid state nanoelectronics for future generation computing, communication and storage applications, sensors, sensor systems, wearable technology, microgrid power system modeling and analysis and power electronics, and biomedical computing and health informatics. We will also consider the areas of computer architecture/embedded systems, data science, and networking, for joint hiring with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Information about the Department can be found at: . Nominations and applications will be considered until the positions are filled. Screening of applicants will begin on December 1, 2015. Applicants should submit the following: 1) curriculum vita, 2) statement of research, 3) statement of teaching, and 4) the names and addresses of four references. Please submit these documents electronically at . If you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact Dawn Nelson at [email protected] or (814) 863-2788.
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