Engineering and Public Policy
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 the moment, we are most interested in finding people
for the following positions:
-
Assistant Research Professor in Technology Policy Education. EPP seeks a candidate with a PhD, and significant background in engineering,
to coordinate the operation, and lead the further development of, undergraduate education in the Department's double major
undergraduate degree programs, as well as, technology policy education and outreach more broadly in the engineering college.
The candidate will be expected to devote approximately half time to these duties while spending the balance of his or her time
developing and conducting policy focused research, including the supervision of PhD students in EPP.
Special Faculty Teaching/Research position in managerial and engineering economics for innovation.
Carnegie Mellon’s professional masters program in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management
(E&TIM) seeks a Research Economist to teach and conduct research in the area of economics and innovation.
The applicant for this non-tenure track position should have a background in applied economics. Responsibilities
include teaching a core course in managerial and engineering economics for engineers, to be offered evenings starting
in the January 2010 spring semester. The course provides masters level students with an analytical framework
to understand factors that shape an industry; students learn to apply concepts and tools necessary to
understand and evaluate innovation opportunities. The course focuses on fundamental microeconomic principles
typical to a managerial economics course (supply & demand, elasticities, market power, pricing, demand and
cost forecasting) and engineering economics principles for project planning and analysis. In addition, one
or two fall-semester elective courses are expected. In addition to teaching in the E&TIM program, the successful
applicant will contribute to a research center studying technology policy issues. A wide variety of applied topics
are possible (e.g., industrial policy, innovation management, energy and the environment, health and safety, information
and computing technologies). A history of, and enthusiasm for, aggressive grant writing is a plus. Minimum
qualifications for this position include a Ph.D. in Economics, or the equivalent, as well as teaching experience.
Applications received before September 30, 2009, will receive priority.
- A joint appointment with Chemical Engineering.
We seek someone with deep technical skills and research
accomplishment in Chemical Engineering who wishes to spend
at least a portion of their time addressing important
problems in public policy in which technical details and
analysis are of central importance. We are open with respect
to specific problem domains but would be particularly
interested in candidates with interests in green process
design and operations,technical and policy
policy issues in nano and/or biotechnology, clean and alternative energy technologies. We are prepared to consider
candidates at any level. At a junior level we will consider
candidates with strong technical backgrounds and clearly
articulated policy interests. At senior levels we require both substantial technical accomplishment and
a clear track-record of policy-analytic accomplishment.
For information on the Department of Chemical Engineering
see www.cheme.cmu.edu.
- Perhaps someone in management of technical innovation. While much of the work in this area is done by economists who have a modest understanding of the technologies they study, we believe strongly that there is a subset of research questions that can only be adequately addressed by getting inside the "black box—" that is, by dealing directly with the technical details. We seek faculty who combine good technical knowledge and skills with strong modern economics and other social science research methods. Options include a straight appointment in EPP or a joint appointment with one of several social science units.
- Perhaps a political scientist and/or a resource
economist. While the average political scientist would
not fit in EPP, we are most interested in finding a political
scientist and/or a resource economist who is interested
in topics such as regulatory policy, R&D policy, agent-based
modeling, management of technology, or other issues related
to the problem areas addressed in EPP. Our primary problem
in making such an appointment is finding a social science
unit in which such a candidate will fit for a 50:50 appointment.
While at the moment our greatest need is for engineers
who have policy and social science skills, we are also interested
in talking with candidates who have the reverse combination
and wish to pursue research in which technical issues are
important. EPP has worked extensively on issues of risk
perception and risk communication. We have also worked on
a wide variety of problems in the area of behavioral decision
making. We are interested in: problems in valuation such
as those associated with valuing ecological and environmental
impacts; problems at the interface between organizational
behavior and policy formulation and implementation; issues
of R&D policy, technology diffusion and adoption; methodological
issues involving analysis outside the normal domains of
conventional policy analysis (cross-cultural, long time
constants, large resources, etc.).
Please send resume, samples of recent writings, and a list
of references to:
Professor Granger
Morgan,
Head
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
129 Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(granger.morgan@andrew.cmu.edu).
Applicants for the Special Faculty Teaching/Research position in managerial and engineering economics for innovation
should send a CV, a teaching statement, a statement and samples of research,
and a cover letter to:
Eden Fisher
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
129 Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
(edenf@andrew.cmu.edu)
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