Barry Silverman asked me to publicize this job opening at Penn. For
more information you can contact Barry directly at:
Barry G. Silverman, Ph.D.
Professor of Engineering/SE & CIS, Wharton/OPIM, and Medicine
Director, Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches (ACASA)
Towne Bldg, Rm 229c, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315
http://www.acasa.upenn.edu/
(215)573-8368 FAX: (215)898-5020
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Adaptive, Self-Organizing Systems
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING (ESE) invites applications for a tenure track faculty
position at the Assistant Professor level to begin September 2002.
The particular areas of interest are: adaptive systems, learning,
stochastic process simulation, optimization, decision science,
control theory, and applications of these disciplines. Individuals
with research and teaching interests in information systems,
networks, and other types of human-machine systems will be given
special consideration. More senior appointments will be entertained
based on the qualifications of the candidate. The Department
emphasizes excellence in research and in teaching with close
connections to other departments in the School of Engineering and
Applied Science, and to other schools including the Wharton Business
School and the School of Medicine, among others.
The University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League University in
Philadelphia, the 5th largest city in the US. This position is the
first to be advertised for the new ESE Department at Penn. ESE is
the result of the merger of two Departments -- EE and SE. The merger
is intended to capitalize on the increasing overlap in intellectual
interests between the existing 16 faculty in Electrical Engineering
(EE) and 8 faculty from Systems Engineering (SE). The new department
is envisioned as having three primary research thrusts: (a) Systems
Science (complex adaptive systems, operations research, general
systems theory, etc.); (b) Network Systems (telecommunications,
transportation, distributed human-machine interaction, etc.), and (c)
Electrosciences (nanotechnology, sensors, electromagnetics, signal
processing, etc.). We expect that most of the innovative and exciting
research developments will occur at the intersections of the three
thrust areas and at the interface between those and many other fields
represented at Penn. We seek to hire new faculty that will help us
to strengthen this approach.
A curriculum vitae, including the names and contact information of at
least four references, and a personal statement defining research and
teaching interests should be forwarded to: Faculty Search Committee,
293 Towne Building, 220 S. 33rd Street, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315 or by email to: dgorte@seas.upenn.edu.
Applications will be processed as received and the search will
continue until the position is filled.
The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer.
Applications by women and minorities are encouraged.