Faculty Openings

Growth Opens up Multiple Faculty Positions 

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona is growing and accepting applications for multiple tenured or tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant or associate professor rank.

Exceptional candidates with vibrant research programs and outstanding credentials will be considered for appointment as full professor.

Areas of Investment and Hiring

• Wireless cybersecurity at all levels, including but not limited to secure communications, secure networking, and software security

• Mixed signal electronics, including high-performance analog devices for high speed wireless, THz electronics for imaging, sensing, novel power devices, and biomedical applications

• Signal processing, particularly in the areas of radar signal processing, detection and estimation, and statistical inference

• Energy and sustainability, including smart grid technologies, energy storage technologies, and other novel approaches to future smart energy needs

• Cyberphysical systems, including areas in the interface between computer engineering and physical systems such as autonomous vehicles, biomedical systems, and transportation infrastructure

The Successful Candidate

Successful candidates will join a highly respected faculty and have the opportunity to engage with industrial partners as well as faculty throughout the University and from partner universities. At the associate or full professor level, successful candidates will actively participate in the department’s leadership and management.

New faculty members will be expected to develop and maintain a vigorous, nationally recognized and externally funded research program; teach undergraduate and graduate courses; and participate in department, College, and University outreach activities.

Qualifications

• A PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering or a closely related field, earned prior to employment

• Commitment to excellence in teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels

• Potential to establish a strong, externally sponsored research program

• Ability to engage in existing and future large collaborative research endeavors

• Ability to work effectively with faculty from a variety of disciplines in colleges across campus

ECE: World-Renowned Research, Quality Programs

With more than 30 faculty members, ECE is the largest department in the UA College of Engineering. The department houses four multidisciplinary research centers that support internationally recognized research in biomedical technologies, optical computing, autonomic and pervasive computing, wireless communications and networks, sensor networks, and robotic space exploration.  Annual external research expenditures exceed $9 million.

More than 250 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students are enrolled in the department, which offers BS, MS and PhD programs in electrical engineering and in computer engineering.

The UA Electrical and Computer Engineering Department is consistently ranked among the top 40 electrical and engineering departments by U.S. News & World Report

The College: Making a More Habitable World

The 127-year-old UA engineering program receives more than $30 million in research awards, offers 13 undergraduate engineering majors, and has 2,487 undergraduate and 593 graduate students enrolled.

The College’s graduate program is ranked 26th in the nation among public universities.

Among many other things, students and faculty design new retinas for damaged eyes, affordable water purification systems for third world countries, environmentally sustainable manufacturing methods, hybrid cars and solar energy systems, bio-sensors that detect and keep people out of life-threatening danger, optical imaging systems for cancer detection, data collect and decision support systems for the military, and buildings that can withstand earthquakes.

For more information about the UA College of Engineering, visit engr.arizona.edu.

UA Ranked Top Research Campus

Generating more than $600 million in research expenditures, the University of Arizona is the state's premier research university and is ranked among the top 20 of public research universities nationwide. In areas such as the environment, optics, space sciences and biosciences, the UA is among the best in the world.

The University offers more than 300 undergraduate and graduate degrees through 20 colleges and 11 schools on three campuses and enrolls about 40,000 students. The UA’s main campus covers more than 380 acres in central Tucson and is the oldest continually maintained green space in Arizona.

For more information about the University, please visit arizona.edu or employment.arizona.edu.

Tucson: Thriving Technology Development

Tucson is a technology and bioscience hotspot with concentrations of business representing advanced materials, environmental technology, aerospace and space technologies, and bioscience industry sectors.

Raytheon Missile Systems, Texas Instruments, IBM, Intuit Inc., Universal Avionics, Sunquest Information Systems, Sanofi-Aventis, Ventana Medical Systems, and Bombardier Aerospace all have a significant presence in Tucson. Many of these companies operate out of the award-winning UA Science and Technology Park, one of the region's largest employment centers.

Owing largely to UA researchers, Tucson has become an entrepreneurial magnet. For example, roughly 150 Tucson companies are involved in the design and manufacture of optics and optoelectronics systems, earning the city the nickname Optics Valley.

Tucson has a population of 1 million and is the second-largest city in Arizona, after the state capital Phoenix. The American Lung Association ranks Tucson -- with its mountains, saguaros, and clear skies -- among the Least Polluted Cities in the United States. The culturally diverse city, located 108 miles southeast of Phoenix, is known for its street fairs, gem and mineral shows, and rodeos.

For more information about Tucson, please visit treoaz.org or visittucson.org.

Submitting an Application

To be considered for these positions, you must submit your application online. Please apply at uacareertrack.com, and cite Job Number 51003. Applications will be reviewed beginning Dec. 1, 2012 and continuing through the 2012-2013 academic year until positions are filled.

The ECE department seeks candidates who can make a positive impact on and contributions to ethnic, cultural and intellectual diversity.

The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA Employer – M/W/D/V and is committed to the support and encouragement of a multi-cultural environment. 

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