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rLecturer or Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering (Yuma)

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rLocation: NAU - Yuma

rRegular/Temporary: Regular

rJob ID: 608017

rFull/Part Time: Full-Time

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About NAU

Northern Arizona University serves almost 30,000 students. We are a vibrant community, with 21,000 students in Flagstaff-the home of our largest campus-and the remainder online or at our 20+ statewide locations. Our institution has carefully integrated on-campus education with distance learning, forming seamless avenues for students to earn degrees.

Committed to an inclusive university environment, NAU has all the benefits of a large institution with a personal touch. We carefully balance teaching, scholarship, and service for faculty members. Supporting our core value of student-centrism, NAU\'s faculty members promote learning and help students reach academic milestones.

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About the Department/College

The Yuma Branch Campus of Northern Arizona University in Yuma, AZ is located on the grounds of Arizona Western College and serves a vital and growing local and regional community. NAU-Yuma has a primary role in providing a wide range of bachelor and graduate degrees in the Lower Colorado River region of Arizona and California with approximately 500 students on campus and an additional 1500 students engaged in distance learning programs.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, that is part of the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. These include Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (ABET accredited), Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - in-person and online options, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, and PhD in Bioengineering. The Department also supports an Interdisciplinary PhD degree in Engineering Sustainable Systems In collaboration with the School of Environment and Sustainability. The Department currently has approximately 600 students and 15 faculty.

About the Position

The Mechanical Engineering Department seeks candidates for the position of Lecturer or Assistant Teaching Professor on the NAU Yuma campus. The selected candidate will report to the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair, will teach courses and laboratories, and will provide technical assistance and maintenance to all instructional laboratories within the department. The Department has five brand new laboratories at NAU Yuma that are used to teach electrical circuits, statics and mechanics of materials, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and manufacturing (subtractive manufacturing). The selected candidate will operate experimental equipment available in the Mechanical Engineering laboratories, maintain the existing experimental and fabrication equipment, and learn how to operate equipment to be acquired in the future. The selected candidate will carry out routine machinery/equipment maintenance and repair, perform new equipment installation, and fabricate prototypes using the available fabrication equipment. This position will be considered the expert technician within the Mechanical Engineering Department and will be the go-to person for all educational lab equipment malfunctions.

Teaching Responsibilities:

• Teach at least two upper division Mechanical Engineering (ME) courses or the laboratory equivalent.
• Maintain office hours and direct interaction with students.
• Remain current in their discipline, updating course content when appropriate.
• Work with the ME Department faculty to develop and implement processes and tools for assessment of teaching and student learning outcomes incorporating appropriate methodologies and technology.

Lab Manager Responsibilities:

Provides technical assistance to students in all Mechanical Engineering laboratories.

Responsible for the maintenance, repair, inventory, physical security, and reporting of the engineering laboratory equipment associated with the laboratory and/or temporarily used in classrooms, and other related areas.

Support student success in applying both learned classroom and technology skills associated with the engineering laboratory through demonstration, monitoring of equipment use, and p