Professor / Reader in Product Design Engineering (637992)

Salary: Salary commensurate with experience and standing

FTE: 1

Term: Open ended

Closing date: 11 October 2024

The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) is seeking to appoint a Professor/Reader in Product Design Engineering. We provide a unique offering Delivering Total Engineering by embracing rich collaborative and multidisciplinary expertise, experiences, and skills from a set of perspectives from creative design, through to engineering design, manufacturing and management of the entire system lifecycle. 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 are proud of our substantial and well-established collaborations with academic and industrial partners throughout the world. With more than 150 staff including the technical specialist centres, more than 70 Postgraduate Research (PGR) students both PhD and EngD, and more than 650 students from over 30 nations, we are a vibrant, international community.

Are you passionate about working on global challenges and societal transitions, including issues such as net zero, health and wellbeing, food, energy and manufacturing systems? Are you willing to complement our thriving theory-driven and practice-based research, outstanding learning and teaching with and for engineering leaders of the future? If so, we would love to hear from you. To support our ambitious plans, we are seeking new talent to join our expanding team.

DMEM has a strong team working across the field of design, ranging from industrial to engineering design and all aspects of design development. Design is a core discipline in DMEM for which the Department is internationally renowned for its world-class research and teaching.

The vacancy currently being advertised aims to complement existing expertise that focuses on Product Design Engineering and we are looking for specialisations including, but not limited to: (1) design process methodology, design methods and tools, (2) creative design and technologies, (3) design psychology and behavioural science, (4) design for manufacturing, or (5) mechanics, analysis, modelling and simulation, experimentation and computation, computer-based design systems (CAD/CAM/AI/Digital product design engineering/innovation).

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.

To be considered for the role you will be educated to PhD level in a relevant discipline and have significant relevant experience in addition to a relevant degree. You will have sound product design engineering knowledge and proven ability to collaborate with colleagues and industry (and wider society), understanding and meeting their needs and promoting innovation. You will have a body of published research in high quality publications, demonstrating standards of excellence and an ability to secure research funding, including experience of contributing to grant applications. You will have relevant teaching experience at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels and an ability to work within an academic team environment and lead teams where required. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to present complex information in an accessible way to a range of audiences.