The Center for Ocean Engineering (COE) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank with starting date of August 25, 2023.The COE at UNH seeks excellence through diversity among its administrators, faculty, staff, and students. The Center is particularly interested in creative scholars who can contribute to the leadership of COE, and make fundamental research contributions to one or more of the following focus areas: ocean renewable energy, marine structures, ocean sensing, ocean mapping, ocean simulations, aquaculture and sustainable seafoods, coastal processes, marine geotechnics, marine robotics, air-sea interactions, and ocean acoustics.The tenure home in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences for the successful applicant will be one of four departments: Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Earth Sciences. Academic duties will be split between the appropriate Department and COE. The Center includes both undergraduate and graduate programs in Ocean Engineering, and oversees the facilities in the Jere A. Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory on UNHâs main campus in Durham.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Ocean, Mechanical, Civil, Environmental, Computer, or Electrical Engineering, Oceanography, Earth Sciences, or a closely related discipline with professional and/or academic experience and accomplishments, a demonstrated record of exceptional research and teaching, and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse communities.
The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast, and is convenient to New Hampshire's lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.