EPP Faculty Recruiting

EPP Faculty Recruiting

Carnegie Mellon University is an equal opportunity employer.

The Department of Engineering and Public Policy is always interested in talking with potential candidates for faculty positions at any academic level who combine deep technical understanding and skills with modern policy analytic and social science research methods. Our interest is primarily in finding candidates who can combine these two sets of capabilities in studying important policy problems in which technical details are of considerable importance. While less attractive to us, we have also occasionally hired people with non-overlapping technical and policy interests.

Our needs change on a regular basis. Because the community of people who do high quality research in the domain of technology and policy is small, we are always interested in getting acquainted with promising candidates across all the domains in which we work.

Most faculty positions in EPP involve 50:50 joint appointments with traditional disciplinary departments. Because of the unusual academic environment at Carnegie Mellon, which supports and encourages interdisciplinary research, EPP has an excellent track record of successful promotion and tenure for faculty in such joint appointments.

At present the Department is seeking faculty candidates in the following areas:

• A candidate at any level with a strong technical background and knowledge of the relevant literatures to address problems in the management of technical innovation and R&D policy.
•  A senior economist with a technical background to work on problems in technology and policy and occupy the Lester and Judith Lave chair between EPP and the Tepper School of Business (see details below).
• A candidate at any level in empirical behavioral social science to collaborate with engineers on problems in technology and public policy.
• Other candidates with engineering or science backgrounds and demonstrated track records in technology and public policy.  Areas of particular interest include:
  • Computer security and privacy
  • IT technology in medical service delivery
  • Atmospheric chemistry, physics, air pollution (especially fine particles) and climate change
  • Risk analysis and assessment
  • Sustainable development and systems ecology

For all but the Lave chair send resume, references and 2-3 sample publications to:

Adam Loucks
(aloucks@andrew.cmu.edu)

Lester and Judith Lave Professorship in Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University announces the creation of a chaired professorship (and associated fellowship) for a tenured, joint faculty appointment between the Tepper School of Business and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy in the College of Engineering.  The endowed chair honors the enduring contributions to these two academic units by the late Dr. Lester B. Lave who was the Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics and Finance and University Professor.

We seek candidates who possess substantial backgrounds in science and engineering, who hold a Ph.D. in economics and have an established track record of working on public policy problems in which the technical elements matter.

Please send curriculum vitae, a list of references, and five sample publications to: 

Ms. Patricia Porter
Posner Hall 254
Carnegie Mellon University
Tepper School of Business
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
(pp9h@andrew.cmu.edu)

If you have any questions about the application, please send an email to Ms. Porter.