• SPX Dist. Scholar/Professor and Director of Batt…

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)


    Position Number: 004434

     

    Department: College of Engineering (Col)

     

    Employment Type: Permanent - Full-time

     

    Months Per Year: 9

    Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

    A Distinguished Scholar/Professor is expected to enhance the academic and research programs of their department and college. The expectation is that the individual in the Distinguished Professorship position will:

    + Establish a strong externally funded research program

    + Lead multidisciplinary proposal efforts across teams of faculty and industry partners

    + Provide visionary guidance toward growing the resources and productivity of the BATT CAVE

    + Assist the development of junior faculty and support staff

    + Expand collaborations with the other UNC Charlotte units such as Chemistry and Nanoscale Science graduate programs, School of Data Science

    + Improve national visibility of the center through scholarly accomplishment, invited research talks, and conference exhibition

    + Teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and supervise undergraduate capstone projects and graduate theses/dissertations

    Minimum Experience / Education:

    UNC Charlotte gives primary consideration to the earned doctorate or terminal degree in the teaching discipline or a related discipline.

    Preferred Education Skills and Experience:

    This tenured position is open to applicants with credentials and experience commensurate with an associate or full professor. Candidates should have:

     

    + PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, or other related fields

    + a proven academic record of scholarly accomplishment, teaching, and leadership,

    + demonstrated an ability to work across disciplines,

    + demonstrated the ability to collaborate and build working partnerships nationally and internationally

     

    An ideal candidate would have broad backgrounds in both vehicle autonomy and battery material science to help facilitate blended projects between faculty members in all research areas of BATT CAVE . Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in novel batteries (including novel materials, modeling and control), vehicle autonomy and control, connected vehicles, and other advanced electrified vehicle related areas such as automotive/vehicle energy analytics and automotive research, including vehicle handling. Candidates with established industrial ties are preferred.