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TEACHING FACULTY FOR TECH COMM

Employer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location
Wisconsin, United States
Salary
Salary Not Specified
Date posted
Apr 14, 2021
Job no: 233281-AS
Work type: Staff-Full Time
Department: ENGR TECH COMM
Location: Madison
Categories: Engineering, Instructional



Position Summary:

The instructor chosen for this position will join the Technical Communication Program, a group of non-tenure-track instructional staff in renewable, fulltime positions who provide critical communication skills for engineering students at UW-Madison. Our program, housed in the College of Engineering, teaches informative, analytic, and persuasive technical writing, technical presentations, and engineering ethics to prepare students for the multidisciplinary communication challenges of the engineering workplace. In the required InterEGR 397 course, our students learn how to contextualize, defend, and promote their own ideas so that they can compete in a global marketplace, and they learn the kind of critical perspective-taking that will ensure their technical ideas engage audiences within and outside of their workplace. We seek a colleague who will bring a passion for scientific and engineering topics with a solid background teaching communication skills.

We are an engaged, collaborative program that seeks to have an impact on communication across the curriculum in the College of Engineering, and our primary mission is to ensure that we prepare our engineers to communicate engineering technical value along with the social/economic/environmental/global and ethical impacts to a variety of stakeholders. Join us in this important work!

Position Duties:

List of Duties

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Degree and Area of Specialization:

Ph.D. strongly preferred in English, Technical Communication, Composition/Rhetoric, Communication Arts, History of Science, or a related field. MS/MA in these fields will be considered if teaching experience directly corresponds to teaching engineering or science communication skills.

Minimum Years and Type of Relevant Work Experience:

Applicants must have two or more years of recent experience teaching advanced technical writing, technical presentations, or college-level composition to engineering or science students. Online teaching or online course development experience a plus.

Additional Information:

Each semester, this instructor would be assigned two to three sections of InterEGR 397 (Engineering Communication); depending on the candidate's experience, they may also be assigned to collaborate directly with engineering faculty to enhance communication in their technical course(s).

Department(s):

A199520-COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING/ENGR TECH COMM

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $46,000 ACADEMIC (9 months)
Depending on Qualifications

Instructions to Applicants:

Please click on the "" button to start the application process. To apply for this position, you will need to upload a cover letter and resume.

Contact:

Laura Grossenbacher
lrgrossenbac@wisc.edu
608-262-8073
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See RELAY_SERVICE for further information. )





Official Title:

FACULTY ASSOCIATE(D92DN) or ASSOC FACULTY ASSOC(D92FN) or ASST FACULTY ASSOC(D92LN)

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

233281-AS

The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is engaged in a Title and Total Compensation (TTC) Project to redesign job titles and compensation structures. As a result of the TTC project, official job titles on current job postings may change. Job duties and responsibilities will remain the same. For more information please visit: https://hr.wisc.edu/title-and-total-compensation-study/ .

Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

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Applications Open: Apr 14 2021 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close: May 7 2021 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time

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