Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Systems and Process Engineering Centre College of Engineering

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY / PRIFYSGOL ABERTAWE Swansea University is a research-led institution that has contributed to the transformation of Swansea as a city of distinction since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery, and offers a compelling balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life. More recently, the University has enjoyed a period of tremendous growth, and we have achieved our ambition to be a top thirty research University, soaring up the 2014 Research Excellence Framework league table from 52nd in 2008 to 26th in the UK in 2014.

Additionally, the university is the home of the largest knowledge economy project in the UK, the Bay Campus, one of the top five major infrastructure investments in Europe. This £450 million development on the eastern approach to the city with direct beach access, together with the transformation of our existing Singleton Park Campus, signals our intention to be one of the finest places to live, teach, research and collaborate in Europe.

Swansea's multicultural dual-campus community provides a global perspective and opportunities to gain skills that last a lifetime. True to the vision of its industrial founders in 1920 Swansea University will:

Provide an environment of research excellence, with research that is world-leading, globally collaborative and internationally recognised;

Deliver an outstanding student experience, with research-led and practice-driven teaching of the highest quality that produces global graduates educated and equipped for distinguished personal and professional achievement;

Use its research strength, collaboration with industry and global reach, to drive economic growth, foster prosperity, enrich the community and cultural life of Wales and, contribute to the health, leisure and wellbeing of its citizens.

You can read more about the University's history, ambitions, and management.  For information about Swansea Bay please visit: https://www.abayoflife.com/about-swansea-bay/ 

Swansea University’s vision is to transform lives and futures by

providing an outstanding academic environment with a balance of excellence between

world-class teaching and research, driving impact that is

enabled by effective regional and global collaborations.

THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING The College of Engineering is ranked 10th in the UK for the combined score in research quality across the Engineering disciplines (REF 2014). Our research environment was ranked 2nd (behind Cambridge).

Academic staff are organised into four key Research Centres (Systems and Process Engineering Centre (SPEC), Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZCCE), Materials Research Centre (MRC), and Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine (A-STEM)), a Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement and a Centre for Innovation and Engagement and are supported by a team of over 100 professional service staff.

The College has undergone a very significant period of transformative growth and development in recent years, including doubling student and staff numbers, raising our international research profile, significantly increasing its research grant income and portfolio, and moving to a new purpose built campus in 2015.

The Bay Campus is part of a £450 million development project at Swansea University housing a range of academic areas with high quality student accommodation, teaching and research spaces.

The six new 30,000 m2 College of Engineering buildings include £100M investment in purpose built facilities. A further Engineering building, IMPACT, is in the final stages of construction and due to open in June 2019.

The College delivers a wide range of high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate courses. All of our degree schemes are accredited by the relevant professional institution and we consistently achieve good student satisfaction and high employability through the delivery of high quality, inspiring research-led teaching across the subject areas. Swansea University was awarded TEF Gold in recognition of its outstanding teaching.

For further information about the College of Engineering, its research and the associated capital projects, please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering

Bay Campus

Athena SWAN

The College of Engineering is an Athena SWAN bronze award holder and is committed to addressing unequal gender representation across academia and professional and support functions. The Athena SWAN Charter recognises work undertaken by institutions to advance gender equality. If you want to know about our commitment to gender equality or have any questions pertaining to inclusivity in the College of Engineering, please contact our Athena Swan Lead Dr Camilla Knight (email: c.j.knight@swansea.ac.uk).

Facts and Figures

Accredited degrees in a variety of engineering subjects

£120 million in research funding received since 2008

TEF Gold award

Engineering is ranked 9th in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2018

SYSTEMS AND PROCESS ENGINEERING CENTRE

The Systems and Process Engineering Centre (SPEC) is one of the four main research clusters within the College of Engineering. It is home to 42 academic staff and covers a broad range of engineering and science encompassing electrical device design, sensor technologies, nanotechnology, chemical and biological process engineering and biomedical analytics.

Our substantial research facilities provide 24 laboratories on the Bay Campus site with specialist provision for electrical device characterisation, clean room facilities and chemical wet-labs. SPEC is also a core user of the Centre for Nanohealth (CNH) facility at the University’s Singleton Campus. The £21 million CNH facility is home to a community of over 40 engineers, physical scientists, life scientists and healthcare researchers who have run £20 million of programmes funded by RCUK, EU and Government. The evolution of this research to higher TRL levels through 100 collaborative R&D projects with industry has created 115 jobs and generated £13.1 million of commercial investment and £3 million of InnovateUK funding.

CNH provides a single, integrated R&D environment containing micro-fabrication and bio-materials clean rooms, nanoscale imaging and fabrication facilities. The technology capability in nano-micro fabrication has driven a substantial programme of industry-partnered research going beyond the initial health-focus, involving partners such as Siemens, IQE, SPTS Technologies, Microsemi, GE Healthcare, Unilever, Huawei, and the centre is now a core partner in the S.Wales semiconductor cluster.

SPEC is an interdisciplinary centre and our aims and ambitions reflect this. Our strategic aim is to build cross-sector strength and drive forward multi-skill initiatives. Thus, for instance fundamental materials and device expertise at the micro and nanoscale will feed in to scale-up manufacturing processes and so support the IMPACT manufacturing project. Our sensor knowledge will also link with SPEC data analytics and computational modelling expertise in a partnership with Sports and Exercise Science at Swansea to launch a major new centre of research focused on wearable technologies for human health, productivity and performance.

THE ROLE An exciting opportunity has arisen for a research leader in systems and process engineering, with expertise electrical and electronic engineering to join Swansea University’s Top 10 UK ranked College of Engineering.

This appointment requires a strong individual with proven research and research leadership skills to drive a world-leading research programme engaging with industrial and other partners, to help sustain our translational research agenda. The appointee will lead and drive growth of a group of academics to jointly strategize research and deliver research outcomes of internationally leading quality.

PURPOSE OF POST Research and Research Leadership

Research Outputs and Activity: Achieve recognition of excellence in terms of reach, significance and impact of research. Sustain a distinguished record of producing world leading or internationally excellent research outputs with demonstrable impact.

Research Projects and Grants: Developing, attracting funding for and leading major programmes of individual or collaborative research for national or international grants or other awards, including working with global partners in academia and industry.

Esteem: Achieve recognition as an authority and leader in a relevant field, and provide strategic direction to future research.

Postgraduate Research Student Supervision and Development: to achieve successful research student supervision and completion at masters and doctoral level, and to contribute to the development of our doctoral training centres.

Management and other responsibilities

Contributing to our Activities: Taking an active part in formulating College or University decisions and contributing to activities beyond immediate research, teaching or scholarship commitments.

Participating in Professional Activities: Engaging with professional activities related to your discipline through networking at conferences or involvement in external groups, and through engagement with funding agencies and government bodies.

Teaching: Effective and inspiring delivery of some teaching, using practice based innovation which is up to date and informed by research or professional practice

Broader Leadership: Supporting and enabling the professional and personal development of colleagues and students through the vision mission and values of the university.

THE PERSON The successful candidate will be able to evidence the following criteria:

A PhD in a relevant subject area;

A sustained and distinguished record of publications of world leading or internationally excellent research outputs, in terms of reach, significance and impact;

A sustained record of developing, attracting funding for and leading major programmes of individual or collaborative research for national or international grants, or other awards, as appropriate to the discipline;

Recognition as an authority and leader in their field/discipline;

Active collaboration with a wide network of leading universities and strong partnerships with industry

Evidence of an extensive and sustained record of PhD supervision and completion;

Evidence of or ability to undertake effective delivery of teaching, assessment and review of modules or other components of the taught portfolio.

Evidence of working beyond one’s own research and teaching commitments; and vision, mission and values

Experience leading research, as a PI, CO-PI or in a management role within a university

Research interests in one or more of the following Industry 4.0 related areas: Devices (electrical or optical, especially on the nano-scale), compound semi-conductors, energy infrastructure in the UK, innovation in energy (for example, battery technology) and the Internet of Things.

RESEARCH CENTRES

ZCCE

Over the last 30 years Swansea University has been at the forefront of international research in the area of computational engineering. The Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering has pioneered the development of numerical techniques, such as the finite element method and associated computational procedures that have enabled the solution of many complex engineering problems. This appointee will be a member of the ZCCE and will be joining a growing community of manufacturing researchers involved with the Centre. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/zcce/

MRC

Swansea is one of the UK’s leading centres for materials teaching and research. The internationally leading materials research conducted at Swansea is funded by prestigious organisations such as Rolls Royce, Airbus, The European Space Agency, and Tata Steel. The Materials Research Centre (MRC) has pioneered postgraduate degrees that are tailored to the needs of industry and produce top quality research. This successful approach is demonstrated by a research grant portfolio in excess of £40 million.

A-STEM

The Applied Sports Technology Exercise and Medicine Research Centre is situated within the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the new Swansea University Bay Campus. A-STEM staff conduct distinctive, cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research focusing on Elite and Professional Sport and Exercise Medicine and Health. World leading research is conducted in a number of areas including anti-doping, sports ethics, children’s physical activity and exercise physiology. Swansea is ranked 5th in the UK for research impact and has a developing portfolio of sport and exercise science and engineering research in the areas of smart materials, biomechanics, real time sensing and data analytics.

IMPACT

This post will also contribute to IMPACT, the £35m Innovative Materials, Processing And Numerical Technologies operation. IMPACT is a Centre of Excellence supporting the global engineering industry with collaborative, fundamental research. The state-of-the-art research centre, part of Swansea University’s College of Engineering, will deliver a high impact, transformative research environment for industry and academia to collaborate in advanced engineering and materials. The ethos of IMPACT is to foster academia-industry partnerships, promoting cross-disciplinary fertilisation of ideas in the pursuit of new pioneering technology. This will be achieved by bringing together first class expertise from the College, attracting leading talent and partnering with the World’s largest companies and regional partners. IMPACT is delivering a research centre for fundamental research in a new purpose built facility with state-of-the-art equipment, providing a sustainable, highly competitive, world-class resource. The IMPACT operation has been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government and Swansea University. Fully complementary to IMPACT is the Factory of the Future for applied research, development and innovation acceleration in smart and future manufacturing technologies.

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/impact/

ACADEMIC CAREER PATHWAYS To deliver its top 20 ambition, Swansea University needs a workforce with the skills necessary to ensure that it can deliver excellence in research; teaching, learning, and the wider student experience; and be a powerhouse for the regional economy and internationally. This position will align to the Enhanced Research career pathway.

The Academic Career Pathways (ACP) scheme is designed to ensure that academic strengths whether in research, teaching, the wider student experience, leadership or innovation and engagement, are all appropriately recognised, developed, valued, and rewarded. There are three enhanced academic strands: Enhanced Teaching and Scholarship; Enhanced Research; and Enhanced Innovation and Engagement. For more information on Academic Career Pathways, please click here.

TERMS OF APPOINTMENT This is a full time, permanent position based at the Bay Campus. Competitive package offered.

Swansea University is open to considering interest from an individual academic, or an individual with a group which may include several academics and/or researchers, and further infrastructure.

Information about joining Swansea University can be found here:

http://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/new-staff/

 

HOW TO APPLY Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Swansea University on this appointment. Candidates should apply for this role through our website at www.saxbam.com/appointments using code WASYF. Click on the ‘apply’ button and follow the instructions to upload a CV and cover letter.

Closing Date: Monday 11 March 2019