Job Summary:

(Troy, New York) As a Senior Lecturer in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, this position will prepare and deliver various courses during the academic year. The potential candidate will spend 95% of their time in the office and approximately 5% at the main RPI campus in Troy, NY, for meetings and other teaching-related activities.

Specifically, this individual will perform the following duties:

• Advise and supervise students;
• Perform research;
• Author grant proposals;
• Author scholarly publications; and
• Serve on departmental committees.

The Senior Lecturer may teach the following courses, among others:

• ISYE 4200- Design and Analysis of Work Systems: Analysis and design of work and workplace. Topics covered include human-machine systems, ergonomics, work measurement systems, methods and standards, process design, direct time study, standard time data, predetermined time systems, work sampling, workload balancing, and workplace layout. Computer-based analysis of problems in work systems.

• ISYE 4240- Engineering Program Management: Planning, controlling, and evaluating engineering projects. Use of network analysis techniques, PERT/CPM, budget control, time/cost tradeoff, time estimation, resource allocation, and resource leveling. Extensions include probabilistic models, multiple resource models, project organization, risk analysis, technical forecasting, and network theory. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and ENGR 4750.

• ISYE 4280- Decision Focused Systems Engineering: The objective of this course is to introduce students to systems engineering, especially from a decision-focused perspective. System concepts, methodologies, models and analysis are covered in relation to a system’s design, development, test, evaluation, and operation. Decisions concerning a system’s reliability, maintainability, usability, disposability, and affordability are systematically considered. A range of systems, including service systems, is also considered.

• ISYE 4300- Complex Systems Models for Industrial & Systems Engineering: This course introduces simulation-based modeling methods for complex systems frequently encountered and used by industrial and systems engineers. Examples include production systems, queuing networks, communication systems, healthcare systems, supply chains, social networks, transportation systems, and financial markets. This course introduces techniques including discrete-event simulation and agent-based simulation for modeling and analyzing interdependent, interacting, and coupling variables, agents, components, and related subsystems.

• ISYE 4320- Theory of Scheduling: Problems of scheduling several tasks over time. Topics include measures of performance, single machine sequencing, flowshop scheduling, the jobshop problem, and priority dispatching. Integer programming, dynamic programming, and heuristic approaches to various problems are also presented.

• ENGR 2600- Modeling and Analysis of Uncertainty: Appreciation and understanding of uncertainties and the conditions under which they occur, within the context of the engineering problem-solving pedagogy of measurements, models, validation, and analysis. Problems and concerns in obtaining measurements; tabular and graphical organization of data to minimize misinformation and maximize information; and development and evaluation of models. Concepts will be supported with a computer demonstration. Applications to problems in engineering are emphasized.

Requirements: Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering or a related field.
Rate of Pay Range: $69,300 to $96,000 per year
Employer Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Position Location: Troy, NY

Application instructions:

Follow the on-screen prompts to create a brief online profile. Please be ready to upload your resume and cover letter.

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