Lehigh University, Art, Architecture and Design

Position ID:Lehigh-Art, Architecture and Design-2APPRODUCT [#22880]
Position Title: Assistant Professor, Industrial and Product Design
Position Type:Tenured/Tenure-track faculty
Position Location:Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States [map] sort by distance
Subject Areas: Design / Industrial Design, Product Design
Appl Deadline:2022/12/06 11:59PMhelp popup finished (2022/09/21, finished 2023/04/25, listed until 2022/12/31)
Position Description:    

*** this position has been closed and new applications are no longer accepted. ***

The Department of Art, Architecture and Design at Lehigh University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Industrial and Product Design, effective August 2023. 

Qualifications 

Applicants should hold an MDes, MID, MFA, MArch or equivalent terminal degree in their field. They should have at least one year of teaching experience in the university setting as a primary instructor. 

Position responsibilities

The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary department with undergraduate major programs in art, architecture, graphic and product design, and art history. The product design concentration within the design major is focused on providing hands-on experience inside and outside the classroom, and encouraging students to see design as a means of confronting real-world challenges. Exploring topical issues, materials, prototyping, and human-centered design processes, our students both creatively develop ideas and shepherd them into the physical world, working with world-class resources and facilities. An open studio culture at Lehigh encourages peer engagement, collective critique, and open discourse fostering a deeper understanding of three-dimensional mass-produced objects in their technical and social dimensions. 

As a faculty member in the program, a successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory through advanced-level studio courses in Product and Industrial Design, three dimensional design foundations, and additional courses in an area of scholarly specialization in regular rotation. Areas of specialization that contribute to and deepen the department’s course offerings might include: medical, environmental, exhibition, furniture, ergonomic, or sustainable design; 3D computer modeling, manufacturing and fabrication technologies; or design research, public policy, history, theory, and criticism. The standard teaching load for tenure-track faculty is two courses per semester, which affords the opportunity to balance between teaching, research, and an active creative practice. 

As researchers, they will be expected to develop and maintain a program of individual scholarship and creative practice that demonstrates excellence and impact, as evidenced by exhibitions, awards, reviews, publications, and other forms of juried or peer-reviewed work, or professional and client-based projects comparably recognized. In both teaching and research, the candidate’s work should be seated in methods that look to make an impact on a range of communities beyond the university and campus setting, serving both disciplinary and public interests. In addition, they will contribute to departmental, college, and university service. 

The position offers the opportunity of affiliation with one of the university’s many interdisciplinary programs and centers, with possibilities for further research advancement and collaboration in scholarship and teaching, including cross-listing of courses. Relevant interdisciplinary centers, programs, and majors include the university’s Integrated Degree in Arts, Engineering and Sciences (IDEAS); dual-degree program in Arts and Engineering; Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Innovation; Creative Inquiry; Environmental Studies; Health, Medicine and Society; Africana Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; South Side Initiative

About the Department of Art, Architecture and Design 

This position is one of four concurrently advertised openings in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design, one of Lehigh University’s largest enrolling undergraduate departments. The department offers BA degrees in four majors—art, architecture, graphic and product design, and art history—and minors in each area, as well as in museum studies and apparel design. 

We offer an undergraduate education in the arts that combines the depth of an art and design school training with the breadth and flexibility of a liberal arts curriculum. We aim to enable students to become makers and designers, builders and creators—backed by the resources of a national research university that has for generations helped shape innovation, industry, and design in the United States. We also aspire to excellence and distinction in experiential learning by providing students with opportunities to harness the skills they learn in the classroom, both for real-world application and as the basis for service in the community and the world at large. We are part of the College of Arts and Sciences— the heart of Lehigh University—offering a wide variety of academic majors, minors, and interdisciplinary programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level. 

The department is housed in a 40,000-square-foot research and teaching facility with studio and classroom spaces serviced by extensive resources, encompassing a range of computer labs, printing and digital fabrication technologies, shops, and finishing areas. This includes adjacent resources of the university’s Design Labs, a network of fabrication facilities across campus; and the collections and exhibitions of the Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG), with a permanent collection of over 18,000 works of art. 

The department is particularly interested in providing support to faculty who approach their work as a means for dialogue, inclusion, remediation, and service in both the university setting and within the community, and who are thinking in innovative ways about the future of their discipline in contemporary and post-pandemic life. It is strongly committed to centering diverse identities and experiences among its faculty and curriculum, and modeling for students of all backgrounds, particularly those from historically underrepresented and structurally marginalized groups, that there is a place and opportunity for them within the arts at both the academic level and in professional life. These values are central to the department’s mission and purpose. 

About Lehigh University 

Founded in 1865, Lehigh University has combined outstanding academic and learning opportunities with leadership in fostering innovative research. Recognized among the nation's highly ranked research universities, Lehigh offers a rigorous academic community for nearly 7,000 students. Lehigh University has some 5,000 undergraduates, 2,000 graduate students, and about 550 full-time faculty members. Lehigh University is located in Bethlehem, PA., a vibrant and historic area. Over 820,000 people live in the Lehigh Valley, which is in close proximity to New York City and Philadelphia. 

Lehigh University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital or familial status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status. We are committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community. Lehigh University is committed to a culturally and intellectually diverse academic community and is especially interested in candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching and/or service, to this mission. Lehigh University is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award for promoting the careers of women in academic sciences and engineering http://www.lehigh.edu/luadvance and is among institutions of higher education recognized for excellence in diversity with the INSIGHT into Diversity HEED Award. Additional information about Lehigh’s commitment to diversity and inclusion is available at https://diversityandinclusion.lehigh.edu. Lehigh University provides competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, including domestic partner benefits. More information about Work/Life Balance for Faculty can be found at https://provost.lehigh.edu/work-life-balance. Lehigh University supports dual career efforts for following spouses/partners of newly hired faculty https://dualcareer.lehigh.edu/dual-career.

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Department of Art, Architecture and Design
113 Research Drive, Building C
Bethlehem, PA 18015