The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE in Troy, NY, announces a planned multi-year renewal of its faculty and mission. As part of this renewal, we seek applications for multiple tenure and tenure-track positions.
We seek highly collaborative applicants with strong vision for innovative research and education. Building on the department's long tradition, we seek faculty who are uncovering knowledge and creating solutions to socially important problems, are collaborating across disciplines, and are integrating their innovations and collaborations into their classrooms. We value applicants who are interested in the success of their students, their department, and their field, and whose research, teaching, and service complement and enhance one another. These faculty will push the Industrial and Systems Engineering discipline forward and will make it more diverse and inclusive.
The following positions are available.
The Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Endowed Chaired and Tenured Full Professorship in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer:
The successful candidate is expected to have an outstanding record of scholarship, educational leadership, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, as well as national and international visibility. The position is open to any area of research within the Industrial and Systems Engineering arena. Applicants with cross-cutting research interests are especially encouraged to apply, as are those whose work is helping to redefine the boundaries of the field of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Application portal link: https://careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/492835. You will be asked to complete a short online profile and you will be expected to upload your CV, a cover letter, a statement of research, a teaching statement, and a diversity statement.
Multiple Tenure-Track Positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level:
ISE seeks candidates at Assistant or Associate Professor rank in the broad range of areas within ISE. Target research areas for this position include but are not limited to sustainability, critical infrastructure, human-machine systems, advanced manufacturing, and supply chain management. Other illustrative areas include methodological advances in acquiring, processing, and analyzing real-time, large-scale, and multi-model data to support decision-making. Please apply at: https://careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/493573. You will be asked to complete a short online profile, and add contact information for three (3) referees. You will also be required to upload the following:
- cover letter
- curriculum vitae
- research statement including future research plans
- statement of teaching activities and interests
- diversity statement
For all open positions, candidates must possess an earned Ph.D. or foreign degree equivalent in a discipline related to Industrial or Systems Engineering. The successful candidate must also be able to demonstrate the potential to carry out the following duties; develop and maintain an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary program and funded research, to actively contribute to the core graduate and undergraduate teaching mission of ISE, and engage in department, institute, and professional service activities. We will review applications on a rolling basis with the potential to start as early as Spring 2023.
We welcome candidates who will bring diverse intellectual, geographical, gender and ethnic perspectives to Rensselaer's work and campus communities. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity, Race/Gender/Veterans/Disability Employer.
Information about the ISE Department: The ISE Department (http://www.ise.rpi.edu) offers degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. ISE at Rensselaer has a rich history of addressing important societal challenges since 1933. The ISE Department has been highly interdisciplinary, with faculty employing methods from optimization, mathematics, statistics, cognitive science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to model, analyze, and solve complex decision-making problems in highly networked natural and social systems, with applications to critical infrastructure, homeland security, on-demand supply chains, and team performance. This work has been supported by numerous federal, state, and foundation awards. The ISE curricula draw directly on cutting-edge research results and pedagogical innovations, and benefit from ongoing collaborations with other Rensselaer departments, most recently in the department's new institute-wide minor in Data Science and Engineering. In 2021, the ISE department graduated a total of 54 bachelors and 14 graduate (Masters + PhD) students and has growing enrollments. ISE alumni are leading organizations in health care, finance, manufacturing, logistics, entertainment, defense, transportation, and consulting.
Information about the Institute: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is America's first technological research university. Rensselaer faculty and alumni represent 85 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 17 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 8 members of the National Academy of Medicine, 8 members of the National Academy of Inventors, and 5 members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, as well as 6 National Medal of Technology winners, 5 National Medal of Science winners, and a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. With 7,000 students and nearly 100,000 living alumni, Rensselaer is addressing the global challenges facing the 21st century-to change lives, to advance society, and to change the world.
My colleagues James Bailey, Emily Liu, and Yinan Wang are attending INFORMS. If you are also attending and would like to meet with them about these positions, please email ise@rpi.edu with available times and if it works out scheduling wise, we will try to accommodate an in person discussion in Indianapolis.
Thanks
Jen
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Jennifer Pazour
Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy NY
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