Salary range: Associate Grade 7 £33,309 - £40,927 / Assistant Grade 6 £28,756 - £32,344
FTE: 1
Term: Fixed Term - 1 Year
Closing Date: 15 December 2021
The Department
of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM), Faculty of
Engineering, University of Strathclyde, wishes to appoint two highly motivated individuals to new and exciting
roles of Teaching Associates/Assistants: One in Engineering Design and one
in Engineering Management. The
position in Engineering Design is for 3 years and includes support duties for the
Head of Department. The position in Engineering Management is for one year.
Whether Teaching Associate (Grade 7) or Teaching Assistant (Grade 6) will
depend on experience.
You will be fluent in either engineering design or engineering management.
This includes, but not limited to, engineering design methods and processes, digital
design, mechatronic design, mechanical component and system design, design for
manufacturing processes, engineering project management, management of design
and engineering innovation, strategy and management of technology development, and
systems engineering. It might well be that you are versed in both disciplines
and are able to provide expertise across the intersection of engineering design
and management. In any case, please indicate clearly which are your strengths.
In these roles,
you will deliver teaching, teaching support and other activities to ensure
that a world-class student experience is enabled for undergraduate and taught
postgraduate students, through the delivery of lectures, other classes,
workshops, tutorials and project supervision. You will also be expected to
undertake scholarly and research activities aligned with teaching activities.
You will be an ambassador of our Department, the Faculty of Engineering, and
Strathclyde, and be responsible for developing our Department’s reputation in
its teaching activities both internal and external to our University.
You will work
as part of a team specifically focused on developing our students’ core
professional engineering skills of design, experimentation, engineering
management and the ability to apply fundamental engineering principles to
real-world engineering problems. The role requires delivery of a variety of
types of teaching within the core modules of our established portfolio of
integrated engineering programmes. The key focus of the role is delivering
the very best student experience and giving our graduates
industrially-relevant engineering skills. You will be expected to teach both
on-campus and online using the full range of university digital systems and
tools.
The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering
Management (DMEM) provides a unique offering combining end-to-end
multidisciplinary expertise from creative design, through to engineering
design, manufacturing and engineering management of the entire system. DMEM
also houses the UK’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), which is
located off-campus at a dedicated site just outside Glasgow and is part of
the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult and the National Manufacturing
Institute Scotland (NMIS). We
operate substantial and well-established collaborations with academic and
industrial partners throughout the world. With more than 150 staff and more
than 80 Postgraduate Research (PGR) students both PhD and EngD, and more than
650 students from over 30 nations, we are a vibrant, international
community.
The
Department currently utilises its own teaching and workshop facilities along
with those provided by other Departments in the Faculty of Engineering and
the University as a whole. DMEM students have access to a wide variety of design
and (additive) manufacturing equipment in our multiple workshops and labs,
e.g. the DMEM’s Digital Design and Manufacturing Studio (DDMS). Across the street and green space
from the James Weir building where our Department’s facilities are housed, the
University has most recently opened a £60 million state of the art Learning
& Teaching hub, aimed at furthering our research and technology
programmes. We emphasise through-life learning and offer multiple programmes,
including Graduate Apprenticeships, Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught,
Distance Learning, Continuous Professional Development, and executive programmes
comprised of modules across the themes of Design, Manufacturing and
Engineering Management. We are the only Department in the UK with its UG
programmes accredited by three professional institutions: the Institution of
Engineering Designers (IED), the Institution of Engineering and Technology
(IET), and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). For details on
the programmes, see ‘Study with Us’ at http://www.dmem.strath.ac.uk.
As part of
the University of Strathclyde, our vision is to be bold and ground breaking,
placing us amongst the world’s leading international technological universities. We are vibrant,
dynamic and passionate about solving the challenges facing society and
industry through our cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research, education and knowledge-exchange
with global partners.
The Department has a strong
international reputation for teaching and research, and is one of the premier
departments in the UK. Our strong partnerships with industry, national and international academic
partner institutions, and a variety of global research agencies, and
governmental agencies ensure the industrial applicability of our courses and
our research outputs, and enable us to provide our students with
state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities.
We are looking for you who thrives to promote engineering
innovation with and for engineering leaders of the future.
In summary, the successful candidates
will be required to undertake the independent development and delivery of
classroom-based and online/blended learning teaching materials. You will have
the pedagogical skills necessary to develop quality learning materials and
assessment methods for classroom-based, online and distance learning
programmes and the ability to ensure an enthusiastic and engaged audience. You
will also be expected to centrally evolve and improve content and delivery
methods, including suggesting the use of, researching and embracing new
technologies and practices. You will have excellent time and project
management capability, excellent communication and teamwork skills, and an
ability to engage with a wide range of individuals. To be considered for this
role you will be educated to degree level in a relevant engineering
discipline, and previous experience in the delivery of (independent) teaching,
student support, and project supervision. You will have sound engineering
design and/or engineering management knowledge in topics as mentioned above, and
proven ability to collaborate well with colleagues and industry.
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Hilary Grierson, Principal Teaching Fellow, h.j.grierson@strath.ac.uk
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