POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING


Applications are invited for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in Mechanical Engineering beginning fall 2002 in the area of thermal sciences. The ME department currently has eight tenured or tenure-track professors and eight lecturers, most of whom are actively involved in research. The faculty has been successful in attracting sizeable grants from the NSF, NASA, DOE, the Whitaker Foundation, and through local industries. Some of the research areas in which the faculty are currently involved include smart materials, microgravity combustion, powder materials processing, hybrid vehicle development, electronics packaging, energy efficiency and biomaterials/bioengineering. SDSU has a joint doctoral program with UCSD. The ME department currently has about two hundred undergraduate, sixty Master's, and five Ph.D. students.

The candidate should have an earned Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and have a strong interest in teaching a full range of undergraduate and graduate courses in the thermodynamics and heat transfer areas, as well as, in developing a funded research program with government and local industry. Please visit the ME Department web site at,


Screening of applicants will begin 2 February 2002 and continue until the position is filled. To apply, applicants should submit a resume/curriculum vitae, a concise and clear statement of teaching interests, and plans for developing his/her research program, copies of up to three recent technical publications, and the names, addresses and phone numbers of three references to:

Professor Larry Thompson
Search Committee Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-1323

SDSU is located in a very pleasant part of San Diego, America's finest city. Redevelopment of the university neighborhood is currently underway. An underground trolley station is being built to connect SDSU with the urban transportation network. The San Diego area is highly diversified in technological pursuits with strong bioengineering, telecommunications, and advanced defense sectors. Local industries that are within a short drive include Qualcomm, Lockheed-Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., Sony, Xcellsis, and many others. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps are stationed nearby and participate with the Department in project activities. Please feel free to e-mail the members of the search committee (Larry Thompson @ Larry.Thompson@sdsu.edu or Sooby Bhattacharjee @ subrata@voyager5.sdsu.edu) should you need any information regarding this employment opportunity.

SDSU is an equal opportunity Title IX employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender marital status, age or disability.