Electrical and Computer Engineering Post-Doc to Tenure Track Fellow

Position Summary:

Are you looking for colleagues who will value you and help you grow as a professional? Are you looking for a university that will support your commitment to educating and mentoring the next generation of work-ready, community-connected, complete engineers? Are you interested in bringing ethical research practices and new experiential learning strategies into the classroom? Are you committed to growing participation of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering? Are you seeking to engage in research and mentorship that makes a difference in the world, as a member of a mission-centered institution?

The University of Dayton School of Engineering is seeking postdoctoral fellows to join our best-in-class community deeply committed to their mentorship and transition to a successful tenure-track faculty career.

UD’s School of Engineering (SoE) values collaboration, inclusiveness, community-engaged learning and adaptation to change. We strive to develop engineers who are socially and globally aware, understand business and entrepreneurship, are prepared to take on leadership roles and are conscious of the consequences of their work — to society, the environment and the profession. SoE has been recognized as Best in Class by the Kern Family Foundation's Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), led by our Visioneering Center. Our partnership of more than a decade continues to support and transform the educational partnership of faculty and students. Service learning is strongly valued, whether in classroom projects or the variety of immersive technical experiences supported by The ETHOS Center‘s 20 year history. Other unique features include interdisciplinary minors such as our  Human Rights and Engineering minor.

UD is one of the nation’s largest Catholic universities, and one of the largest private universities in Ohio. Continuing its trajectory of growth, UD enrolls nearly 12,000 students, including over 8,000 full-time undergraduates. Research activity also boasts bold numbers: we are a leader in the nation for industrial and manufacturing R&D and federally sponsored engineering R&D, and number 1 in Catholic university engineering R&D. 

Dayton’s environment is a great place for those who want a bit of everything with a low cost of living, great schools, and manageable traffic. Love water? UD’s campus is a walk away from The Great Miami Riverway (also home of the nation’s largest paved trail network). Our central location provides easy access to a burgeoning downtown area, expansive metro parks named for our convergence of five waterways, a vibrant arts scene, historic neighborhoods, and the Dayton Aviation Heritage and National Historical Park. See http://daytoncvb.com for more information about the area.

We invite applications for a postdoc to tenure track fellow with research and teaching interests and experience in the areas of machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and neurofeedback technology. These opportunities are two-year postdoctoral research positions that may transition to tenure-track faculty positions at the end of the second year per postdoc to tenure track fellow review policies of the hiring unit and University of Dayton, upon demonstrated success in securing externally sponsored research; high-impact mentorship of undergraduate and graduate researchers; and development of effective, innovative teaching practices. These positions are renewable annually and begin on January 1, 2025.

Opportunities for collaboration are diverse, with examples including the School of Engineering labs  and centers - Vision Lab Center of Excellence, Additive Manufacturing Lab, Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Center, Design of Innovative Machines Lab, EMPOWER Biomechanics Lab, Flight Simulator Lab, Integrated Microsystems Lab, Thermochemistry Lab, High Speed Flow Lab, Behavior of Advanced Materials and Structures Lab, Dayton Thermal Applications Lab, Intelligent Optics Lab, Intelligent Signal Systems Lab, Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, Nano-Fab Lab, Robotics Lab, Signal and Image Processing Lab, Transportation Lab, ETHOS Center, Visioneering Center