The Margaret F. Donovan Endowed Chair for Women in Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Akron , Akron , OH 44325-3904

The College of Engineering at The University of Akron is inviting applications and nominations for the position of The Margaret F. Donovan Endowed Chair for Women in Engineering. Candidates must possess a doctorate in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related discipline.  Although candidates from all areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering will be considered, preference will be given to candidates in the areas of signal processing and sensors and actuators, with special emphasis on those with bioengineering and biomedical applications.  The position will be a tenured appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) at the Associate Professor or Professor level. The salary will be competitive. This position also carries a substantial startup package. The ECE department presently includes 15 full-time faculty members and offers BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering. In addition, the department offers a BS degree in Computer Engineering and an interdisciplinary PhD in Engineering. Areas of faculty expertise include communications, controls, electromagnetic fields, expert systems and artificial intelligence, networked embedded systems, optics, power electronics, signal and image processing and VLSI. The Department houses several modern undergraduate laboratories with significant computational resources and an infrastructure that is being continuously updated and upgraded. Numerous well-equipped graduate research laboratories have been developed by the faculty. The Department has approximately 450 undergraduate and 55 graduate students.

    The University of Akron is a state-assisted metropolitan university in northeast Ohio with approximately 23,000 students. The University is currently executing an ambitious plan of modernizing its physical campus to satisfy the demands of the incoming student body and is also actively enhancing its research activities commensurate with the level required for Carnegie status.  In 2003, The University of Akron was selected as one of twelve Carnegie Cluster Leaders by the Carnegie Academy for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the American Association of Higher Education.  Candidates are expected to have demonstrated success in securing competitive federal research grants and have an excellent teaching record. The successful candidate shall conduct research and teach in the department at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and actively participate and serve as a role model in the activities of our reputed Women in Engineering Program in the College of Engineering .  Nominees will be contacted by the chair of the search committee. Applicants, please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching goals, and the names of at least three references to Dr. Joan Carletta, Search Committee Chair, The Margaret F. Donovan Endowed Chair for Women in Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron , Ohio 44325-3904 . Telephone: 330-972-5993; Fax: 330-972-6487. The committee will commence the review of applications immediately and the search will remain open until the position is filled. For additional information regarding The University, the College, the Department, and the faculty please visit our web site at www.engineering.uakron.edu.