Background

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

 In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research.  During this period, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics within the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering offers undergraduate, BEng and Meng degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Aeronautical Engineering as well as a number of related MSc programmes. The department benefits from extensive workshops and laboratories used to support teaching as well as extensive research facilities including thermo-fluid test cells and wind tunnels as well as a parallel computing cluster that are used to support undergraduate and MSc students’ projects.

Responsibilities

The Department is seeking to appoint an outstanding academic to a Lectureship, education role profile, to undertake teaching in the subjects of Manufacturing and Materials as well as other related subjects such as Engineering Design including group design projects; Engineering Science and Engineering Mathematics. The appointed Lecturer will lead curriculum development in relevant areas of expertise including established and emerging topics. They will supervise undergraduate and MSc projects and undertake academic administration and management duties and focus on improving students’ learning and experience and employability prospects.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will hold a first degree and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline and will have appropriate membership in relevant professional body. They will have a good understanding of modern trends in higher education and the engineering deployment market in the Mechanical Engineering and related sectors and breadth of knowledge in Manufacturing and Materials well as other subjects relevant to Mechanical Engineering Curriculum. They will have a relevant track record of delivering high quality education.

Additional Information

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date for applications: 22nd October 2021 at 11:59pm

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture, for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or social class. For more information on our approaches to encouraging an inclusive environment, please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Pages.

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