Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

About the role

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is seeking to recruit academic staff to undertake high-quality research and teaching. Two Lecturer appointments will be made and the department is particularly interested in expertise in the following areas:

• Dynamics and Mechatronics
• Fluid power and control

You will be expected to publish high-quality research papers, supervise postgraduate research students, and have the potential to obtain significant external research funding. You’ll conduct original and rigorous world-leading research of significance to the academic field and of potential use to engineering practitioners.

Teaching is expected to particularly support our well-established and highly successful Mechanical Engineering MEng undergraduate degree programmes, including our Aerospace, Automotive, Manufacturing and Management, Integrated Design Engineering, and Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering degrees, as well as new MSc programmes under development.  Our degree programmes have an exceptional reputation built on industry-linked teaching, rigorous academic standards, placement-provision, and graduate employability.  

Teaching will be expected in one or more of the following areas:

• Engineering dynamics
• Robotics/mechatronics engineering
• Control/autonomous systems

As well as class teaching, you will be expected to fully participate in supervising students undertaking significant individual and group projects encompassing research or design activities.

Further information

As part of the selection process, you will normally be required to give a presentation to academic staff in the Department before being shortlisted for formal interview. 

Informal enquiries about the post may be made to:

• Professor Patrick Keogh, Head of Department, Tel: +44 (0)1225 385958, P.S.Keogh@bath.ac.uk
• Dr Sabina Gheduzzi, Senior Lecturer, Tel: +44 (0)1225 384560, S.Gheduzzi@bath.ac.uk

Please ensure you submit your application through our website. As well as your online application, you must provide the following uploaded as additional documents (these are mandatory):

• A CV of no more than 4 pages, covering current and key previous employment, education including degree titles/departments/universities, published journal papers, and a brief summary of research and teaching experience.  Note that this may be distributed widely within the Department for comment as part of the recruitment process and please ensure that personal contact details (address/phone/email) and any other sensitive information are not included.  The document should be called ‘4-page CV’.
• A four-page outline of a potential research grant application and be prepared to discuss this at interview. Typically for Lecturer grade applicants, this application would be aimed at the EPSRC New Investigator Award and it would be expected that the successful candidate submits this within the first year of the appointment. The document should be called ‘Research proposal’.

As part of the selection process, you will normally be required to give a presentation to academic staff in the Department before being shortlisted for formal interview. 

About you

Appointees will have a PhD and a developing research track record. 

You will need to be able to contribute to one or more of our priority research areas, which are: 

• Integrated systems engineering (including robotics, control, data, and design)
• Energy (generation, transmission and storage)
• Net zero transport
• Advanced materials and structures
• Biosensors/biomedical engineering
• Sustainability
• Climate change adaptation

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