Assistant Professor, Tenure Track - Robotics in Mechanical Engineering Position Overview School / Campus / College: College of Engineering Organization: Mechanical Engineering Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track - Robotics in Mechanical Engineering Position Details Position Description The Department of Mechanical Engineering, within the College of Engineering, at the University of Washington, Seattle, invites
outstanding faculty candidates to apply for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position. This position is on a 9-month service period with an anticipated start date of September 16, 2026. This position is aimed at recruiting exceptional candidates in any of the subdisciplines of Mechanical Engineering, with a particular focus on Robotics. The UW Mechanical Engineering Department has achieved
international prominence in additive and advanced manufacturing, including composite materials manufacturing, biomechanics and biomedical engineering sciences, physics-based machine learning and artificial intelligence modeling and controls, energy storage and electrification, renewable energy and thermal and fluid sciences. The successful candidates will be expected to develop a strong research program on the
fundamentals of Robotics, with applications to one or many of the areas of impact for which Mechanical Engineering is well-known. The successful candidate will also be expected to strengthen some of these key areas and to open new subfields with high promise at the national level and in collaboration with industry. The successful applicants will be expected to develop an internationally recognized extramurally funded
research program and to provide innovative, high-quality teaching. The candidates will also be expected to contribute to a learning environment that welcomes and values all lived experiences and points of view, collaborate with members of the department, as well as other researchers within the University and affiliated institutions, participate in the department’s teaching in the Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD
programs, and contribute to the mentoring, and training of graduate students in the department’s Masters and/or Ph.D. programs. Candidates are expected to propose and implement new initiatives in the undergraduate curriculum, and graduate courses in their areas of expertise, as well as activities to involve students from all backgrounds in research. The ME Department at the University of Washington is in a
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