Assistant/Associate Professor - School of Industrial Design 2025

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.

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1. Students are our top priority.
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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 Industrial Design

In the heart of Atlanta, a vibrant city with great economic and cultural strengths, Georgia Tech prides itself on its technology resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and commitment to academic excellence. The School of Industrial Design enrollment has grown to over 350 students today, with the largest undergraduate enrollment in the College of Design. The School of Industrial Design currently offers a BSID, MID, MS-HCI (with a specialization in Industrial Design), and an ID Minor, and it is working towards establishing a PhD in ID. Our mandate is to build design and research capabilities in collaboration with other well-recognized Programs and Centers on the Georgia Tech campus, including Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Architecture, Interactive Computing, Graphics Visualization and Usability Center (GVU), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI). The school has also launched a 2-year exchange-based MID program at Georgia Tech's academic institute in Shenzhen, China.

Atlanta, GA

The School of Industrial Design (https://id.gatech.edu/) at the Georgia Institute of Technology invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Design. Depending on the budget, one of two positions may be open. We seek visionary and innovative candidates who strongly emphasize sustainable product design & system development and STEM education with a strong track record and commitment to design, research, and teaching. Candidates should have experience and research in one or more areas based on industrial design education and practices: material science, manufacturing, interactions between humans and materials, environmental impact analysis, learning theories, and strategic development of interdisciplinary studies.

Successful candidates will be expected to develop a robust collaborative research agenda ideally connected with one or more of the groups identified above. The person in the position will be thoroughly familiar with both the curriculum and career requirements in the fields of Product and System Integration and Sustainable Design to provide leadership in curriculum planning to adequately prepare our students for the best opportunities in a rapidly changing environment. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to teaching and mentoring students. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Assistant Professor

• A doctorate in an appropriate discipline or experience which is of value comparable to the doctorate in preparing the candidate for the role of an educator.
• Clear evidence of effective teaching
• Clear evidence of creativity

Associate Professor

• Sufficient time in grade. Generally, five (5) or more years as an Assistant Professor. Criteria for early promotions can be found in the Faculty Handbook section 3.3.6.
• A doctorate in an appropriate discipline or experience which is of value comparable to the doctorate in preparing the candidate for the role of an educator.
• Clear evidence of effective teaching.
• Clear evidence of creativity while at Georgia Tech.
• Clear evidence of contributions to Georgia Tech in meaningful ways by service to the Institute, to the public, or to appropriate professional organizations.

• The ability to lead interdisciplinary research projects integrating sustainable design practices with innovative education methodologies.
• The ability to develop studio-based learning pedagogy and establish a creative and collaborative learning environment.
• The ability to participate in developing and continuously improving curricula that prepare students for the evolving demands of the design fields.
• The ability to secure external funding to support collaborative research initiatives.
• The ability to engage students in experiential learning and high-impact practices that support student success.
• The ability to foster partnerships with industry or community organizations to advance design practice and innovation.
• The ability to engage in teaching and service activities within the School, the Institute, and the broader academic and professional communities.

Applicants should submit (1) a cover letter/letter of application, (2) curriculum vitae, (3) a statement of research interests, (4) a statement of teaching interests addressing the candidate's advising/mentoring philosophy, (5) the names and contact information for three references: and (6) examples of scholarly work such as design research case study reports, exhibition briefs, competition entries, and/or written publications.

Applications will be considered beginning September 1, 2024, but the search will continue until the positions are filled. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. The position could start in Spring or Fall of 2025. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications.

For additional information about this job opening, please contact EunSook Kwon, Chair of the School of Industrial Design, eunsook.kwon@design.gatech.edu

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The School of Industrial Design is seeking to fill this appointment no later than Fall 2025. However, applications will be considered for Spring 2025 start date. Other dates may be considered.

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening