Location: | Coventry |
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Salary: | £42,155 to £60,027 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 7th December 2022 |
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Closes: | 6th January 2023 |
Job Ref: | REQ010260 |
Job description
Our strategy at Coventry University continues our drive to provide a high quality, inclusive, and empowering global education. 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 in the top 10 of the Guardian University Guide 2023 for our courses. As a new member of staff, you will be joining a global institution at the forefront of teaching achieving several awards including the Gold Teaching Excellence Framework in 2017 and this year’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Innovation.
Successful candidate will be able to lead the delivery of topics relating to undergraduate & postgraduate Renewable Energy and Thermofluids curricula. You should have a particular interest and expertise in Thermofluids, Bio-Energy, Advanced Energy Storage Technologies, and Battery Management Systems. Working within our school team, you will further develop your abilities in module management and student support, making a positive contribution to student outcomes. You will have extensive skills in relevant modelling software (e.g., BioSTEAM, HomerPro). Experience in other CFD and engineering analysis tools, such as ANSYS-Fluent, CONVERGE CFD, STAR CCM+, MATLAB, and LabView will also be beneficial. You should have excellent, up-to-date knowledge in both theoretical and applied/experimental techniques in the fields of interest, and be able to link current themes and state-of-the-art applications in your teaching. Working across the Faculty, School and the wider University community, you will develop your abilities in teaching delivery and project supervision.
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. 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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