Tenure Track Faculty Opening in Economics/System Dynamics

[Khalid Saeed]

Tenure Track Faculty Opening in Economics/System Dynamics

The Social Science and Policy Studies (SSPS) Department at WPI expects to
fill a tenure track faculty position in Economics/System Dynamics in the
academic year 2001-2002.

The selected candidate will teach undergraduate courses in introductory
economic theory, system dynamics and one or more of the following elective
courses: international economics, development economics,
environmental/ecological economics and public finance. The selected
candidate will also have the opportunity to develop new economics or system
dynamics courses related to their interests. A candidate should have a
Ph.D. in economics with a strong interest in system dynamics, or a Ph.D. in
an equivalent area. The ideal candidate will have research and teaching
promise in integrating an area of economics with system dynamics.

The SSPS Department at WPI has multidisciplinary faculty offering majors in
economics, system dynamics, technology and society and environmental
policy. The Department also offers service courses in the social sciences
Institute-wide. Interest in system dynamics as a research and teaching
methodology is shared by a majority of faculty members in the department,
which is also the first in the world to offer a B.S. in system dynamics.

Applications with vita and at least three references should be sent to the
following address by December 1, 2001, electronically or by mail or fax:

Professor Khalid Saeed
Department Head
Social Science and Policy Studies
W.P.I.
100 Institute Rd.
Worcester, MA 01609
Phone: 508-831-5296, FAX: 508-831-5896
Email: saeed@wpi.edu

WPI is a leading private university of engineering and applied sciences
located in Worcester, MA and is an equal opportunity affirmative action
employer.