The Faculty of Design, Engineering and Production educates students in Mechanical engineering, Marine Technology and Industrial Design. Within the Subfaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology there are vacancies for:

  A full professor of Production Engineering and Organisation

The chair of Production Engineering and Organisation contributes to the education on the following areas:

• Primary production processes such as: parts manufacturing and product assembly;
• Development of production equipment and design of production systems;
• The organisation of production processes.

The section of Production Engineering and Organisation has a laboratory and a computer infrastructure where theoretical and experimental research is done on, among other topics, production processes and design and development of production systems.

The Faculty is looking for a top-scientist, interested to initiate research that is both scientific relevant and of interest to industry.

Profile

• Graduate in mechanical engineering, having comprehensive knowledge and industrial experience in the fields of education and research mentioned above, demonstrated by relevant publications and a PhD-thesis or comparable scientific achievements;
• Excellent didactic and communicative skills;
• Capable to initiate research projects, raise funds and co-ordinate the activities of staff and students of the section;
• Maintaining a network of relations in national and international research institutes and industry;
• Good managerial skills to lead a research group and to contribute to the management of the Faculty and the University.

Information may be obtained from Prof.ir. J. Klein Woud, Chairman of the selection committee. A more detailed profile for the chair is available at request (phone: +31 15 2783051). E-mail: J.KleinWoud@wbmt.tudelft.nl.

A part-time professor in Project Engineering and Management 

The vacant chair is an externally funded part-time function (0.3 fte).

The new professor will give an essential contribution to the mechanical engineering curriculum of the Laboratory of Process Equipment.

The professor will present the major part of the lectures in the course "project engineering and management". In this course all relevant aspects of project engineering and management of small and large scale process installations have to be covered beginning with the start of the development

of the project up to the plant start up. In consultation with his colleagues he will also take responsibility for the guidance of some students making their Master thesis at the Laboratory.

In addition he will stimulate and where possible initiate research in the field of efficiency improvement and cost reduction of plant design and construction. He will be responsible for acquiring funds from Research Councils and industry in order to make this type of research attainable.

The new professor will also stimulate co-operation with other departments of the faculty and other faculties of the university and he will stimulate co-operation with national and international institutions doing similar research.

Profile

• Graduate in mechanical engineering, having comprehensive knowledge of the design of various types of process equipment.
• Extensive experience with the engineering of complete process installations.
• Excellent didactic and communicative skills.
• Capable to initiate research projects and to raise funds for research projects.
• Maintaining a network of relations in companies active in the engineering, manufacturing and erection of process installations and in related institutions.
• Good skills to motivate students.

The salary, which will depend on knowledge and experience, will be in accordance with state regulations governing (professorial) professional salary scales. Immediate inclusion in the pension scheme.

Information may be obtained from Prof. ir. J. Klein Woud, Chairman of the selection committee. A more detailed profile for the chair is available on request. (phone: +31.152785401/ +31.152783051). E-mail: J.KleinWoud@wbmt.tudelft.nl.

Please send your written application together with a detailed curriculum vitae and a list of publications, within 30 days to: Delft University of Technology, attn. Prof.ir. J. Klein Woud, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, the Netherlands.