Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

Locations: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (On-site)

The full-time starting salary is normally £52,996.00 per annum, with progression available in post to £57,602.00 per annum.

Energy is essential for driving technological advancements, economic development, and environmental sustainability. As the global demand for efficient, reliable, and sustainable energy systems continues to grow, innovation in Electrical Power Systems, Electrical Machines, and Power Electronics becomes increasingly critical.

To support this mission, we are inviting applications for the position of Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, specialising in Electrical Power Systems. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, contributing to both teaching and research.

We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Electrical Power Systems: Distributed Systems, Power Flow Optimisation, System Reliability, and Energy Demand Management
• Energy Management & Control: Smart Grids, Microgrids, and Energy Storage Systems (e.g., Batteries)
• Electrical Machines and Transformers: Design, Modelling, Control, and Analysis
• Power Electronics: Power Converters, Drives, and Integration of Renewable Energy Sources
• System Resilience & Optimisation: Energy System Modelling, Fault Tolerance, and System Security.

For this role we will consider applicants with an excellent first degree and PhD in the subject field, experience in CDIO implementation or project-based delivery, has contributed to high-quality publications or other relevant outputs in research or leading-edge industrial experience, proven post-graduate level mathematical and analysis skills and associated computational simulation, use of Matlab/Simulink or other software and eligible for Fellow or Senior Fellow status under the Higher Education Academy’s Professional Standards Framework (FHEA / SFHEA).

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

In the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (CEBE), we work to apply abstract intelligence to make a better, safer, smarter society. We have a strong emphasis on STEAM, with some of our teaching taking place in our award-winning new STEAMhouse building, where disciplines combine to solve real-world problems. 

Our experts across the Faculty work not only with one another but across a wide range of disciplines, to solve real-world problems, and encourage and foster this spirit of Innovation in our students. Together, they are able to respond dynamically to the multiple modern technological challenges posed by fast-paced industries.

Across the Faculty, we integrate teaching with research, innovation and enterprise. We work closely with our industry partners to ensure that we are developing skills in our graduates that equips them for emerging careers and the future of work. We are fully committed to practice-driven experimental and flipped learning – harnessing the strength of employer relationships for the benefit of our students – who then go on to make a significant impact on society through their ideas, their work and their expertise.

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About Us

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

Apply Before: 17/02/2025, 23:59