Head of Architectural Engineering Department

4 weeks ago

State College, Pennsylvania, United States Penn State University Full time
Job Description and Position Requirements:

Penn State's College of Engineering invites nominations and applications for the Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering (AE) position. We seek an individual who will provide innovative and energetic leadership with strong administrative skills and a commitment to higher education. Reporting to the dean, the department head is responsible for visioning, strategic planning, operations, finances, academic affairs, and external relations and advancement.

The successful candidate will be a collaborative leader committed to strengthening the department's education, research, service, and belonging missions. They will possess the scholarly record, leadership skills, strategic capacity, and entrepreneurial spirit to advance the department. A demonstrated ability to work with industry is desirable, enabling our department to build upon and grow our existing industry partnerships successfully.

The candidate should be positioned to strengthen the department's national and international reputation. They must possess academic credentials of the highest quality and an established and widely recognized reputation in one or more sub-disciplines with an orientation toward building system integration.

An earned doctorate is required, and the candidate should be either a full-tenured professor or eligible for immediate tenure at the full professor rank.

The AE Department has a tradition of excellence in teaching and education for the built environment, integrating scholarly work with leading industry practice with a distinctive emphasis on the integration of systems. The department is active in research and confers a full range of degrees, including the Ph.D. and M.S./M.Eng/M.A.E. at the graduate level and the 5-year ABET-accredited B.A.E. undergraduate students.

The College of Engineering is pursuing excellence for the future under the leadership of Tonya Peeples, who began serving as the Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering in 2024. The Dean's vision emphasizes making a positive impact on society, embracing challenges facing humankind, redefining multidisciplinary activity, and engaging globally.

Penn State is a public, land-grant, research-intensive University with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, the University has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service. Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional, and continuing education offered through resident instruction and online delivery.

The future leader of the AE Department should be ready to guide and harness the faculty's diverse skills and research areas. The research covers a range of topics that respond to three predominant challenges: climate change, increasing demand with constrained resources, and the potential of emerging technology. Within and across these three areas, the research expertise within the AE Department ranges from building electrification, energy efficiency, and air quality to industrialized construction and robotics, virtual and augmented reality, as well as novel systems and new materials.

The Architectural Engineering Department has recently moved to a brand-new facility, the Engineering Collaborative Research and Education Building (ECoRE). The building features cutting-edge teaching facilities and unique research laboratories, offering revolutionary opportunities for the AE Department, including laboratories focused on building materials science and the synthesis of novel, high-performance, and carbon-negative building components; indoor air quality and aerobiology; full-scale façade component testing under simulated thermal and solar conditions; construction robotics, automation, and virtual workforce training; immersive 3D building visualization and BIM and virtual twin innovation; multi-modal (HVAC, IAQ lighting/daylighting, acoustic) occupant-built environment interaction human factors research; building controls and simulation optimization; and lighting and illumination perception research and photometric testing, along with innovative teaching demonstrations and student studios and instructional venues.

State College, Pennsylvania, has been voted multiple times as one of the most desirable and safest places to live in the United States.

Penn State is committed to and accountable for advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability in all of its forms. We embrace individual uniqueness, foster a culture of inclusion that supports both broad and specific diversity initiatives, leverage the educational and institutional benefits of diversity in society and nature, and engage all individuals to help them thrive. We value inclusion as a core strength and an essential element of our public service mission.

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