Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
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About the Role
As Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering you will be required to make a significant contribution to the delivery of our modules and other areas of our core curriculum depending on your areas of expertise and experience.
You will be expected to contribute to the research activities of one of our Research Units and meet the qualitative and qualitative requirements for submission to the next Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Your main duties will include preparation, teaching and assessment whilst also supporting students and contribute to Research, KE (Knowledge Exchange), and CPD (Continuous Professional Development),
You will be working for a multi award-winning institution that has been named Modern University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 and shortlisted for the overall UK University of the Year award. Working in a Computer Science Department with state of the art facilities and the opportunity to interact with likeminded computing staff and students. Amble opportunities for development, progression, and flourishing.
Please note this post has an anticipated start date of September 2024.
For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Professor Amr Ahmed, Head of Department, at Amr.Ahmed@edgehill.ac.uk .
About You
As a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, you will have:
- Subject expertise in more than one of the areas of engineering materials, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, structural and solid mechanics, manufacture and design, mechatronics.
- Research active in a relevant and complementary research areas to the Department, and promising to contribute to REF.
- Excellent, effective and adaptive teaching skills underpinned by sound pedagogical principles
- Ability to support the diverse academic and personal needs of individual students.
- Independent and Team working, Flexibility and adaptability, reliability and commitment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise effectively with colleagues, students and external stakeholders.
To be successful you will further enrich our student’s experience through your expertise and subject knowledge as evidenced through your qualifications and extensive experience of professional practice. In return, you will join a forward thinking and dynamic team that pushes the boundaries of curriculum development.
At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Rewards & Benefits
- A minimum of 48 days annual leave per annum, pro rata (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
- Access to a range of CPD to support your career development, with three defined pathways for progression.
- Free foreign language evening classes.
- Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and as health & wellbeing resources.
- Automatic enrolment into the Teacher’s Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 23.68%
- Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
- Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
- Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
About Us
Edge Hill University is an ambitious institution, based on an attractive, award-winning 160-acre campus in Lancashire, close to Liverpool and Manchester. The University aspires to combine excellent research of reach and significance with a world-class student experience.
Edge Hill University was named Modern University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 and shortlisted for the overall UK University of the Year award. With this award the University was called ‘one of the shining stars of the modern university sector.’ The award has come closely after Edge Hill was awarded University of the Year in the Educate North Awards 2020/21
Edge Hill University appears in the Times Higher Global Rankings (801-1000) and has previously held the coveted Times Higher Education UK University of the Year title.
The Engineering subject is co-located within the Department of Computer Science, and it is growing rapidly. It offers an expanding range of programmes, which are increasingly popular with applications growing year-on-year. The Department of Computer Science has a strong reputation for high quality learning and teaching and ranked top in the North West for overall student satisfaction in the 2015-2017 National Student Surveys and ranked top in the North West for student experience in The Times/The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.
There is an active research community involving academic staff, post-doctoral researchers, several PhD students, and national and international research projects. There are close links with industry and an enterprise projects team which develops systems for clients together with Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
Facilities are housed in the £13m state-of-the-art Tech Hub building, which includes specialist Computer Science and Engineering laboratories for teaching and research. Specifically, the building has a Harvard-style lecture theatre and thirteen specialist teaching laboratories, which include an open access laboratory, a Mechanical Engineering laboratory, an electrical and electronic engineering teaching laboratory, and a CAVE (Computer Augmented Virtual Environment). Other specialist equipment includes oscilloscopes, signal generators, Tensile Testing Machine, several robotic arms, Arduinos, Raspberry PIs and e-pucks 2.
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