Lecturer / Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor/ Professor - Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

RESPONSIBILITIES:

It will be expected of the successful candidates to:

• Teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the Department;
• Supervise final year undergraduate project students and postgraduate Honours, Masters and PhD students;
• Conduct research as a member of a research group in the Department and publish in leading accredited journals;
• Raise and manage additional funding from national and international funding agencies and industry to support the activities of the relevant research group;
• Expand existing research programmes or initiate new research programmes;
• Perform assigned departmental duties (e.g. of an administrative nature)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Lecturer:

• A BEng degree from a university of which the undergraduate programme is recognised by the Washington accord or is recognised by ECSA to be equivalent;
• A Masters’ degree in Engineering that follows on the previous qualification;
• Teaching or industry related experience;
• 1 Publication (peer reviewed article or peer reviewed conference paper) or
• Book chapter(s), recognized articles outputs or industry recognized outputs in a commensurate field.

Senior Lecturer:

• Same as for Lecturer, plus;
• A PhD degree in Engineering that follows on the previous qualification;
• At least three years tertiary education experience or three years industry experience with some involvement in tertiary education;
• At least 2 articles published in DHET accredited journals or a DHET accredited book;
• At least 2 other publication outputs (peer reviewed conference paper(s) / book chapter(s) / industry recognized outputs in a commensurate field;
• Supervision / co-supervision of Master’s students to completion or proven management experience in industry.

Associate Professor:

• Same as for Senior Lecturer, plus;
• At least 6 years tertiary education experience or 6 years industry experience with some involvement in tertiary education;
• Experience in curriculum / strategy development and innovation;
• Evidence of sustained publications output;
• Majority of recent publications should be in WoS / Scopus / IBSS journals (past 7 years);
• Evidence of at least 3 research Master’s OR 6 coursework Master’s mini-dissertations successfully completed (supervised or co-supervised);
• Evidence of Doctoral student supervision;
• Evidence of conducting reviewer duties for journals and/or conferences.

Professor:

• Same as for Associate Professor, plus;
• At least eight years’ experience at a tertiary academic institution or industry related
• experience;
• Evidence of successful doctoral student completion;
• Evidence of conducting reviewer duties for ISI/Scopus indexed journals;
• A record of previous undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching experience.
• A well-established and internationally recognised research record supported by
• publications in high quality peer reviewed journals.

VACANCY-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS (SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE):

Structural Mechanics vacancy (1 post) 

• Expertise in structural mechanics at the postgraduate level, such as the finite element method.
• Advanced modelling of mechanical structures and systems.
• Advanced computational skills (e.g. Python or MATLAB).
• Keen interest in experimental techniques relevant to mechanical system response measurement.

Mechatronics vacancy (1 post) 

• Advanced instrumentation, testing, data processing and analysis for field testing.
• Measurement using advanced sensors such as Lidar, Radar, vision, digital image correlation etc.
• Good computer skills (e.g. Matlab, C++, simulation)
• Electronics interest and background in control, measurement and actuation
• Embedded controller programming (e.g. C++, Linux etc.)

ADDED ADVANTAGES AND PREFERENCES:

• Keen interest in physical asset integrity management
• Keen interest in signal processing and machine learning
• Keen interest in vehicle dynamics and control
• Evidence of teaching excellence
• Preference will be given to candidates who have teaching and research expertise that complement the Department’s needs
• Related industry work or consulting experience
• Candidates registered or registerable as Professional Engineer with ECSA
• NRF rating or have applied for one.