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Space Science Faculty Positions, Penn State University
Applications are invited for tenure-track space science faculty positions in the Communications & Space Sciences Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, the ability to establish a strong research program, and a desire to teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department is seeking to add new expertise in areas involving the Space Sciences including radar and optical remote sensing, lightning/plasma electrodynamics, aeronomy, space weather, and space-related instrumentation development. Candidates whose technical expertise is concentrated in one or more of these areas are encouraged to apply. One position will be filled under an NSF grant for Faculty Development in the Space Sciences. The applicant hired under this position will be added as co-investigator to this grant.
Penn State is one of the largest land grant universities in the US with over 80,000 students. About 40,000 are at the University Park Campus, including over 10,000 graduate students, with the remainder at 22 locations across Pennsylvania. The Department of Electrical Engineering is among the largest and most innovative in the nation and serves primarily upper-division and graduate students. It currently has over 45 faculty, 650 junior- and senior-level students, and 250 graduate students. Funded research is being conducted in many areas, including electromagnetics, space sciences, remote sensing, electro-optics, signal and image processing, power systems and power electronics, electronic materials and devices, communications and networking, and decision and control. Please send resume and cover letter, with names, addresses and phone numbers of at least three references, to: Dr. W. Kenneth Jenkins, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Box AGU, 129 EE East, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. Applications will be considered until the positions are filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce.
-- Revised 04 Mar 2005 by emery@ucar.edu
