What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Professor position at Georgia Tech?
Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
- Students are our top priority.
- We strive for excellence.
- We thrive on diversity.
- We celebrate collaboration.
- We champion innovation.
- We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
- We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
- We act ethically.
- We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
About the School of Architecture
The School of Architecture (SoA) is one of five schools in the College of Design. Other schools include The School of Industrial Design, The School of Building Construction, The School of City and Regional Planning, and The School of Music Technology. The SoA offers Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture, Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Science in Urban Design, and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture. SoA faculty have access to all the resources of the College of Design for their research and teaching, including a Digital Fabrication Laboratory that houses a suite of industrial-scale CNC machines.
Atlanta, GA
The Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture invites applications for a full-time tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level. With an emphasis on studio teaching, it is expected that candidates will be able to demonstrate their abilities to teach effectively in architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels and conduct significant scholarship, research, and/or professional activity towards clearly defined goals. We are especially interested in applicants who work on applied design research in architectural design. Candidates are expected to be able to build on the legacy of the Georgia Tech School of Architecture as a leader in these fields and contribute to near and next-generation design technology research. Teaching and/or professional experience for a minimum of two years is a requirement.
Candidates are sought with evident strength and continued promise as innovators in architectural design pedagogy and whose own creative work demonstrates the ability to infuse design culture with the potential of new enabling tools and end-product technologies in service to broader social, cultural, and environmental aims. Teaching responsibilities include an undergraduate or graduate design studio and seminar or workshop in the area of the candidate's expertise. The candidates are expected to teach required courses in Building Technology, Structures, or Media and Modeling. In addition to strengthening the BS. Arch. and M. Arch. programs, selected candidates will be expected to develop and maintain a productive program of research or scholarship that links one or more of the areas of focus in the M.S. and Ph.D. programs. It is also highly desirable that they are able to establish interdisciplinary collaborations in teaching and research with faculty from other schools within the College of Design and across campus, including computing, engineering, and science, and will be given support in making these connections.
Candidate must have a terminal professional degree in Architecture or an allied discipline.
Professional qualifications in architecture are expected, and a doctoral degree is desirable. Publications and/or exhibitions of creative work are expected.
Student Success Criteria
- The ability to promote a welcoming educational/work environment.
- The ability to mentor and assist students interested in pursuing graduate education.
- The ability to design and teach curricula that are responsive to a distinct student body.
- The ability to adopt teaching strategies that support the learning and success of all students.
Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests (2-page max), a description of teaching interests (1-page max) as well as a portfolio of creative work and examples of teaching and the names and contact information for at least three references.
Requests for information may be directed to the search committee chair, Thanos Economou (thanos.economou@design.gatech.edu).
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.
Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.
More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).
The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.
Applications will be considered beginning January 15, 2025, but the search will continue until the position filled.
Georgia Tech is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, genetics (including testing and characteristics), or protected veteran status, uniformed service-member status, political affiliation or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Consistent with its obligations under federal law, each company that is a federal contractor or subcontractor is committed to taking affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified women, minorities, disabled individuals and veterans.
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