The College of Engineering at Texas A&M University invites applications for a full-time tenured professor and department head for the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution with an 11-month academic appointment beginning as early as January 2025. The college is seeking a dynamic, innovative, and visionary leader who can continue to advance the department. The successful applicant will be an innovative thinker with a strategic vision for guiding the department to a higher level of excellence and who can communicate this vision to a constituency that includes academia, government, industry, and former students. The candidate must have notable accomplishments and experience in research, academic or industry leadership, teaching, and scholarship.
Candidates must demonstrate a vision for supporting, directing, and enhancing the goals of the department. This leadership position includes opportunities for applied research, service and teaching as well as expanding the department’s interdisciplinary research in areas such as but not limited to: smart manufacturing, robotics and automation, cybersecurity, semiconductor testing, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, supply chain management, and workforce development initiatives at Texas A&M University.
The department head will:
§ Demonstrate leadership, mentoring and administrative skills;
§ Continue a successful research and academic record commensurate with the title of tenured full professor;
§ Articulate and communicate a clear vision for the future of education, research and service in the department;
§ Lead and motivate high standards for continued excellence and innovation in undergraduate education;
§ Develop partnerships to support and strengthen distance and resident applied graduate programs;
§ Promote continued growth of the department in basic and applied research;
§ Build commitment and support for the department from a wide variety of constituent groups such as former students, industry and government labs;
§ Provide effective budget management and promote an environment of integrity to stimulate faculty, staff and students to succeed at the highest levels;
§ Organize successful fundraising through the pursuit of funding opportunities (grants and contracts), scholarship and endowments through strengthening relationships with stakeholder groups.
The Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution is unique among the 15 departments within the College of Engineering, due to its strong focus on applied research and undergraduate education. The Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department blends engineering and business knowledge, methods, and research. This department consists of five distinct undergraduate programs and three graduate programs - two distance education and one resident graduate program. Minors in Embedded Systems Integration and Technical Sales are also available. More information available here: (https://engineering.tamu.edu/etid/index.html)
As the largest in student enrollment (over 2500 undergraduate and 250 graduate students) in the college, the department has 108 tenured/tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty members to support academic programs in electronic systems engineering technology, multidisciplinary engineering technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology, information technology service management, and industrial distribution. Department research expenditures exceed $14 million annually supporting areas such as embedded systems, communications, advanced manufacturing, intelligent product design and development, information technology management, human-computer interaction, robotics and automation, sales management, distribution operations and supply chain management (led by the Thomas and Joan Read Center for Distribution Research and Education), and educational research.