Associate Teaching Professor

Description

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time Associate Teaching Professor position, emphasizing design instruction. Associate Teaching Professors are non-tenured faculty members and are hired on multi-year appointments with a 9-month service period (September 16 through June 15) with an additional month of instruction during the summer and may allow for additional opportunities to teach during the summer. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2025. 

The base salary range for this position will be $7450 to $14,000 per month (with a nine-month service period), commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination. Other compensation may include a one-time relocation incentive, if applicable. 

UW Bioengineering is jointly administered by the School of Medicine and the College of Engineering. In UW Bioengineering, we are bound by a belief that diversity, health innovation, and social justice are inseparable. We are thus committed to being a global leader in inclusive, equitable, and just biomedical research, teaching, and service. Thus, we encourage applications from individuals whose backgrounds or interests align with the department’s commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and the successful candidate will be expected to contribute positively to these efforts. We encourage applications from people who have been systematically marginalized, women, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. 

The successful applicant will serve as lead instructor of our Master of Applied Bioengineering (MAB) program, a ten-month, full-time, on-campus professional master’s degree. This program trains students to apply engineering design to address today’s clinical challenges and meet the market-driven technological demands of industry and medical care. Students are mentored by world-class faculty in the UW Medicine healthcare system, related engineering disciplines, and local industry partners to carry out year-long design projects that transform biomedical research into technologies for improving patient care. MAB students graduate with skills highly sought after in the biomedical industry and translational research. 

As lead instructor, the successful applicant will have primary teaching responsibilities for the core MAB program course series, clinical rotations, and capstone design instruction. Additionally, they will be expected to establish relationships within academia, medicine, industry, and the MAB alumni network to support the rotations, identify and develop design projects, and facilitate mentorship and student-alumni connections. The successful applicant will also chair the MAB admissions committee and lead efforts for program improvement and growth. As a member of the UW Bioengineering core faculty, additional teaching responsibilities may include a combination of lecture courses, laboratory courses, service, and curriculum management. 

University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, scholarship, and service. While Teaching Professors primarily focus on education and service, they are also expected to contribute to pedagogical and/or engineering scholarship. This scholarship is broadly defined and may include the development of new instructional materials, innovative teaching and mentoring methods, outreach activities, novel student assessment approaches, leadership in professional associations, and the dissemination of their work within the university and beyond. 

Qualifications

Required: PhD or equivalent degree in bioengineering or closely related field. 

Desired: The ideal candidate will bring a passion for teaching and mentoring, with demonstrated excellence in classroom or design instruction. Candidates should have experience with classroom teaching techniques that support inclusive excellence, inclusive student mentorship, biomedical technology project-based design and development, and industry practices such as regulatory oversight and manufacturing practices. In addition, experience with some of the following is desirable: instrumentation, signal processing, engineering computation & control software (MATLAB, LabVIEW), prosthetic devices, device fabrication, electromechanical systems, fluidic systems, and biomaterials.

Application Instructions

Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching interests, a statement of commitment to inclusive excellence*, and the contact information of at least four references through Interfolio. Complete applications received by November 15, 2024, will be given preferred consideration. Open positions are contingent on funding. Questions can be sent to [email protected]. 

• For your diversity statement, please describe your past involvement with diversity, equity and inclusion, including how your teaching, service, and/or scholarship has supported the success of students from diverse racial, ethnic, class, and gender backgrounds. (500-750 words)

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

Benefits Information

A summary of benefits associated with this title/rank can be found at https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/benefits-orientation/benefit-summary-pdfs/. Appointees solely employed and paid directly by a non-UW entity are not UW employees and are not eligible for UW or Washington State employee benefits.

Commitment to Diversity

The University of Washington is committed to building diversity among its faculty, librarian, staff, and student communities, and articulates that commitment in the UW Diversity Blueprint (http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). Additionally, the University’s Faculty Code recognizes faculty efforts in research, teaching and/or service that address diversity and equal opportunity as important contributions to a faculty member’s academic profile and responsibilities (https://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH24.html#2432).

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Disability Services

To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or [email protected].

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