Lecturer in Engineering Design

Lecturer in Engineering Design
Faculty of Engineering, Environment & Computing (EEC)
£35,333 – £44,737 per annum
As one of Coventry’s biggest employers, we offer some pretty impressive benefits including an excellent pension scheme and generous holiday allowances.

Our strategy at Coventry University continues our drive to provide a high-quality, inclusive, and empowering global education to anyone who can benefit from it. It maintains our belief that, through education, people are empowered to grow and advance in society. We all want to make a difference, we would like you to join us.

Working in the School of Mechanical Engineering, you will be committed to contributing to our continued success. You will join a School recognised for its high-quality and real-world teaching, state of the art activity-led facilities and an approach guided by and focused on industry. You will deliver and develop courses which foster a first-class educational experience while nurturing and producing industry-ready graduates.

The School values forward thinking, student-centred learning experience and well-developed industry relationships while embracing different cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences of our students, colleagues and partners to create opportunities for all. As result, we are currently ranked 7th in the Guardian University Guide 2022 for our courses in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace and Manufacturing. As a new member of staff, you will be joining a global institution at the forefront of teaching and innovation achieving several awards including the Gold Teaching Excellence Framework in 2017 and this year’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Innovation.

All applicants are required to have recent teaching and/or applied experience of key areas of Engineering Design and Manufacturing; design methodology, design tools and techniques (e.g. FM, QFD, DFx, FMEA, etc), product life-cycle, CAD/CAM and technical drawing.

Within the role they should be able to relate current industrial best practice in the field of Engineering Design an Manufacturing into a manageable format that students can realistically engage with, to ensure a contemporary and rigorous approach to Engineering Design.

Expertise and experience in all or some of the following subject matters are beneficial:

• Design management
• Systems Engineering (V-model approach)
• Design verification and validation
• Application and management of standards and specification
• Recent applied experience of CAM software and systems
• Design for manufacture principles (DFMA)
• Knowledge and applied experience of varied production techniques, such as CNC
• Metrology, GD&T and part inspection processes
• Design for Sustainability would be advantageous

You will need to share our passion for delivering a positive student experience that puts excellence in teaching and learning at the heart of everything we do and will be able to demonstrate significant knowledge in your area of specialisation. You will be expected to undertake curriculum development, design and delivery of teaching that is engaging, innovative and responsive, that achieves excellent student learning outcomes. You must be willing to work flexibly to promote and support international partnerships, as well as potentially deliver teaching onsite at one of our international partners.

This position is a teaching focused post that will attract candidates that wish to focus on pedagogic practice, curriculum development and course management. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to conduct relevant commercial activity. 

The candidate should be qualified to PhD level in a relevant subject area or have comparable industrial experience.  Experience of working in professional educational practice/consultancy projects, as well as experience of working on applied research projects, will be advantageous.

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