Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Faculty Position at UC Riverside

The Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions in the 2011/2012 academic year. A doctoral degree in the relevant engineering discipline or related field is required. Interdisciplinary candidates are sought in the following areas:

(1) Computer engineering, with emphasis on VLSI/CAD, SoC/RF/3D design, FPGA/embedded systems;
(2) Lab-on-a-chip systems, with emphasis on microfluidics, MEMS, medical/bio interface electronics;
(3) Distributed sensing and control, for applications on solid-state lighting, transportation systems, smart grids, solar energy, distributed imaging systems;
(4) Multi-transceiver sensing/imaging hardware and systems, with emphasis on ultrasound, RF, infrared, light, plasmonics, photonics and THz.

Junior candidates must show outstanding research, teaching and graduate student mentorship potential. Senior candidates may be considered with an exceptional research, teaching, and graduate student record. Salary level will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

We anticipate that the successful candidate will complement the highly motivated and entrepreneurial spirit of the College faculty, contributing meaningfully to the success of future teaching, research, and service accomplishments. Faculty research activities are essential to the success of our program and as such new members are expected to initiate and sustain strong sponsored research and graduate training programs.

The Department of Electrical Engineering has 24 core faculty members with 7 Fellows of the IEEE and 4 Fellows of the AAAS. The faculty has high visibility and professional recognition. During the last two years our annual externally funded research expenditures averaged between $4M - $5M per year. Our graduate program ranked very high in the recent NRC rankings. A comparison of different UC and AAU EE Graduate Programs along with a summary of last year’s activities can be found in our newsletter1. Currently, we have 226 students in our ABET accredited Undergraduate Program, 156 students in our Graduate Program, and we share with the CSE Department the teaching of the 150 undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

The search committee will review received applications beginning on January 3, 2011 and will continue to receive applications until the positions are filled. To apply please register through the weblink at www.engr.ucr.edu/facultysearch/ and submit the requested PDF files. For inquiries and questions, please contact us at facultysearch@engr.ucr.edu.

The University of California, Riverside is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.