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the frontline 64 ISE Magazine | www.iise.org/ISEmagazine careers AUBURN UNIVERSITY The Auburn University Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) invites applications for a full-time (9 months, with potential opportunities for summer funding) lecturer position. This non-tenure track appointment is to become effective in May or August 2017. The primary responsibility of the position is to teach a selection of industrial and systems engineering undergraduate courses, such as deterministic and stochastic operations research, probability and statistics, and simulation. The successful candidate is expected to bring experience, innovation, enthusiasm, technology, and leadership to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering educational program. A typical teaching load will be three courses per semester, which includes course and laboratory preparation and delivery. In addition to teaching, lecturers will be expected to serve on student committees as well as department and university service committees. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Lecturers have the potential for promotion to Senior Lecturer after five years of employment in which exceptional teaching ability and extraordinary value to the institution is demonstrated. Required Qualifications: • A Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering or a closely related field or a Master's in industrial and systems engineering or a closely related field with significant academic teaching or industry/governmental experience in the practice of industrial and systems engineering • Evidence of strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills in a diverse work environment • Demonstrated potential for excellence in teaching Preferred Qualifications: • Evidence of successful teaching of industrial and systems engineering content at the university level in an ABET accredited program • Industry/government experience in the practice of industrial and systems engineering Applicants should complete the application online and should submit a cover letter, statement of teaching experience and teaching philosophy, and three letters of recommendation related to teaching qualifications. They should also include teaching evaluations for previous courses taught if available. The candidate selected for this position must be able to meet eligibility requirements to work in the United States at the time of appointment and continue working legally for the proposed term of employment. Auburn, AL is centrally located near Atlanta, Birmingham and Montgomery. The city was named one of the top 100 "Best Places to Live" by CNNMoney.com in 2012. Auburn's diverse metro area including sister city Opelika has approximately 150,000 residents with 23% black, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Asian or Pacific Islander. Auburn High School was ranked the fourth best high school in the state by US News & World Report in 2013. Auburn University is one of the nation's premier land, sea, and space grant institutions. In the 2015 edition of the U.S. News and World Report ratings of undergraduate programs, it was ranked 48th among public universities. Auburn is an institution that is both highly research-active and committed to maintaining teaching excellence offering Bachelor's, First Professional, Master's, Educational Specialist, and Doctor's degrees. Its fall 2016 enrollment of 28,920 students includes 22,658 undergraduates, and 5,632 graduate students. There are 1,216 full-time instructional faculty members distributed across nine Colleges and three Schools, with degrees offered in more than 200 academic programs. The Auburn Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering has a strong and progressive research program and a long tradition of excellence in both graduate and undergraduate education. The ISE department has sixteen faculty members (fourteen are tenure track), approximately 120 graduate students (about 60 of whom are in the doctoral program), and 400 undergraduate students. Our student population has grown over 230% in the last six years and we have hired six new faculty members in that period. Twelve percent of ISE faculty members are female and 33% of ISE students are female. Our faculty members come from six different countries. The department maintains vibrant research programs with approximately two million dollars annually in sponsored research and is housed in the beautiful, state-of-the-art Shelby Center in the heart of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering complex which provides cutting edge research, instruction and office space. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2017, and will continue until a candidate has been identified. http://aufacultypositions.peopleadmin.com/postings/2021 Aubur iversity is a ffirmative Actio /Equal Opportu ity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employme t opportu ities for all i dividuals without regard to race, sex, religio , color atio al origi , age, disability, protected vetera tatus, ge etic i formatio , sexual orie tatio , ge der ide tity or a y other classificatio rotected by applicable law.