Faculty Cluster Hires

Faculty Qualities


About the positions
The world faces critical challenges in the coming decades that require innovative solutions to maintaining a high quality of life. The ability to make an impact in a technology or science area is predicated on having a critical mass of collaborative faculty. To that end, the College of Engineering at Iowa State University will hire new faculty in "clusters," a group of faculty with common research and other scholarship interests in a technology or science area. Their efforts will contribute toward meeting society's new challenges while also bringing innovation to instruction by teaching across departmental boundaries.

Areas selected by the college for cluster hiring

  • Biosciences and Engineering
  • Energy Sciences and Technology
  • Engineering for Extreme Events
  • Information and Decision Sciences
  • Engineering for Sustainability

Applications for tenure-track, nine-month, full-time positions at all ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor) are encouraged. Positions are available in the following engineering disciplines

  • Aerospace
  • Agricultural and Biosystems
  • Chemical and Biological
  • Civil, Construction, and Environmental
  • Electrical and Computer
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Systems
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical

Required qualifications
PhD degree in the appropriate field, demonstrated potential to excel in the classroom, and demonstrated potential to establish and maintain a productive externally funded research program. For associate or full professor positions, candidates must, in addition, have an excellent record of externally funded research and internationally recognized scholarship.

Preferred qualifications

  • Strong interest in interdepartmental and intercollegiate research in areas that will sustain and increase in their importance into the future
  • Excellent research and teaching skills
  • Ability and desire to be visible nationally and internationally
  • Excellent people and communication skills as well as passion for student success
  • Compelling desire to make the world a better place
  • Willingness (and qualifications) to teach across department boundaries