LECTURER FOR TECH COMM
- Employer
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- May 26, 2022
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Salary:
Minimum $45,000 ACADEMIC (9 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.
Job Summary:
The instructor chosen for this position will join the Technical Communication Program, a group of non-tenure-track instructional staff in renewable, full-time 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 an understanding of the social/economic/environmental/global and ethical impacts on a variety of stakeholders. Join us in this important work!
Responsibilities:
Facilitates classroom, online, and/or laboratory instruction and assists with instructional development and design for a single course or series of courses within an academic discipline to support the delivery of quality instruction. Provides for-credit instruction in formats such as classroom, online and/or laboratory settings, including grading. Serves as an instructor of record.
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
Education:
Required
Master's Degree
MS/MA.with preference in English, Rhetoric/Composition, Technical Communication, Communication Arts, Science Communication, History, History of Science, or a related field.
Qualifications:
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.
COVID-19 Considerations:
UW-Madison continues to follow necessary health and safety protocols to protect our campus from COVID-19. All employees remain subject to the COVID-19 Workplace Safety Policy: https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-5086 . Please visit https://covidresponse.wisc.edu for the most up-to-date information.
Work Type:
Full Time: 100%
It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.
Appointment Type, Duration:
Ongoing/Renewable
Additional Information:
Each semester, this instructor would be assigned three sections of InterEGR 397 (Engineering Communication); depending on the candidate's experience; they may also have some informal opportunities to collaborate directly with engineering faculty to enhance communication in their technical course(s).
This vacancy is being announced simultaneously with job number #258283; please note that only two vacancies/positions exist. Having two job postings allows the college to consider candidates that have either a Ph.D./Terminal degree education and/or MS/MA degree education for these positions.
A successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring eligibility for employment in the United States on or before the effective date of the appointment. University sponsorship is not available for this position.
How to Apply:
To apply, go to http://jobs.wisc.edu and search for PVL 259420. To begin the process, click on the "" button. You will be asked 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:
Lecturer(TL020)
Department(s):
A190201-COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING/ACAD AFFRS/TECHCOMM
Employment Class:
Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:
259420-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/
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).
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department .
Applications Open: May 26 2022 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close: Jun 20 2022 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time
Minimum $45,000 ACADEMIC (9 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.
Job Summary:
The instructor chosen for this position will join the Technical Communication Program, a group of non-tenure-track instructional staff in renewable, full-time 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 an understanding of the social/economic/environmental/global and ethical impacts on a variety of stakeholders. Join us in this important work!
Responsibilities:
Facilitates classroom, online, and/or laboratory instruction and assists with instructional development and design for a single course or series of courses within an academic discipline to support the delivery of quality instruction. Provides for-credit instruction in formats such as classroom, online and/or laboratory settings, including grading. Serves as an instructor of record.
- 50% Facilitates classroom, online and/or laboratory instruction for one or more courses, including assessment of student performance
- 10% Develops instructional design and curriculum relevant to a course of instruction
- 20% Serves as an initial point of contact for students as it relates to specific course or series content and expectations
- 10% Researches and develops understanding of relevant cutting-edge technologies and topics within engineering, for the purpose of providing students with effective, targeted suggestions and feedback on their term projects
- 10% Meets regularly with other instructors teaching similar courses to ensure a coordinated approach to course learning outcomes, assignments, feedback, and grading
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
Education:
Required
Master's Degree
MS/MA.with preference in English, Rhetoric/Composition, Technical Communication, Communication Arts, Science Communication, History, History of Science, or a related field.
Qualifications:
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.
COVID-19 Considerations:
UW-Madison continues to follow necessary health and safety protocols to protect our campus from COVID-19. All employees remain subject to the COVID-19 Workplace Safety Policy: https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-5086 . Please visit https://covidresponse.wisc.edu for the most up-to-date information.
Work Type:
Full Time: 100%
It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.
Appointment Type, Duration:
Ongoing/Renewable
Additional Information:
Each semester, this instructor would be assigned three sections of InterEGR 397 (Engineering Communication); depending on the candidate's experience; they may also have some informal opportunities to collaborate directly with engineering faculty to enhance communication in their technical course(s).
This vacancy is being announced simultaneously with job number #258283; please note that only two vacancies/positions exist. Having two job postings allows the college to consider candidates that have either a Ph.D./Terminal degree education and/or MS/MA degree education for these positions.
A successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring eligibility for employment in the United States on or before the effective date of the appointment. University sponsorship is not available for this position.
How to Apply:
To apply, go to http://jobs.wisc.edu and search for PVL 259420. To begin the process, click on the "" button. You will be asked 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:
Lecturer(TL020)
Department(s):
A190201-COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING/ACAD AFFRS/TECHCOMM
Employment Class:
Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:
259420-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/
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).
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department .
Applications Open: May 26 2022 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close: Jun 20 2022 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time
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