The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (AEM) at the University of Cincinnati invites nominations and applications for the position of Department Head and named professorship.

The department has 22 full-time faculty with a strong research program, which has steadily grown over the past several decades.

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Responsibilities of Department Head and named professorship

• act as a visionary academic leader with a demonstrated ability to turn vision into reality.
• Also, inspire AEEM faculty, staff, students, and the community with ambitious but attainable departmental goals and develop a plan to lead AEEM toward those meeting those goals
• Foster a culture of accountability in which departmental goals are specified, strategies articulated, and results against goals are reported
• Strengthen/Advance existing research programs within AEEM and develop new ones across a variety of sectors
• Develop, maintain and strengthen transdisciplinary research collaborations across the CEAS and the University community
• Promote scholarly as well as creative excellence
• Facilitate development, mentoring, and personnel management to faculty and staff
• In addition, create and manage an annual AEEM budget in collaboration with the department’s business manager
• Lead the development/refinement of an innovative undergraduate and graduate AEEM educational paradigm to position AEEM to effectively respond to the University’s strategic sizing and Next lives here initiatives
• Ensure compliance with accreditation requirements
• Initiate new and strengthen current national and international relationships in pursuit of joint educational and research collaborations
• Engage the Department’s Industrial Advisory Board seeking and implementing feedback on strategic directions and state of the department
• Have responsibility for the Fire Science & Emergency Management Program that is housed in the Department.
• Moreover, manage departmental communications to enhance and extend its national and international visibility

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Minimum Requirements for Department Head and named professorship

• A commitment to excellence
• A clear vision for opportunities in Aerospace Engineering as well as necessary steps for establishing and achieving established goals
• A history of sustained success and leadership in Aerospace Engineering
• Rigorous standards of professional achievement and ethical behaviour
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills
• A record of promoting diversity and inclusiveness
• Also, an entrepreneurial orientation combined with boldness, imagination and abundant energy
• Strong understanding of the challenges and issues facing higher education as a whole
• A firm grasp of the opportunities as well as advantages of the University’s urban setting
• A management style that is emotionally intelligent, inclusive and decisive and provides leadership by example
• Proven effectiveness in teambuilding and enabling collaborative engagement that transcends departments, disciplines and initiatives to create sustained success
• A strong commitment to creating a culture of inclusion and diversity
• In addition, personal qualities of integrity, compassion, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, honesty, fairness, fortitude, patience and perseverance

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Required Education for Department Head and named professorship

• A PhD in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or a closely related discipline, or an advanced professional degree with a minimum of 15 years of distinguished technical and administrative experience.
• Demonstrated intellectual leadership in academia, industry, at a national laboratory or with a government agency.
• Also, have credentials commensurate with appointment as a full professor with academic tenure in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.

Application Process

Interested applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter addressing qualifications and a near and long-term vision statement for opportunities in Aerospace Engineering and the necessary steps for establishing and achieving established goals for the department based upon the above responsibilities. Review of applications will begin immediately and stay open until the position is filled.

Additional Information

As a UC employee, and an employee of an Ohio public institution, if hired you will not contribute to the federal Social Security system, other than contributions to Medicare. Instead, UC employees have the option to contribute to a state retirement plan (OPERS, STRS) or an alternative retirement plan (ARP).