10 January 2012
Assistant Professors for Intercontinental Design Education Program (3 positions)
Chiba University, Japan
Apply by Janaury 31, 2012
Three positions, Assistant Professors for Intercontinental Design Education Program
Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Apply by January 31. 2012, Position start date: April 2012
Chiba University, Department of Design Science seeks applicants for 3 positions of Assistant Professors. The positions are full-time employee (non-tenured) and limited-term contracts up to 4 years during April 2012 to March 2016.
The department is starting a special design education program with funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology and the Japan Society for the Promotion of the Science. The program is designed to promote the educational exchanges intercontinentally with collaboration among leading design universities in Europe, United States and Japan, conducting students exchanges, PBL(Project Based Learning), cooperative workshops and so on.
The positions will be responsible for all educational activities in the program. Main activities are (a) teaching PBL classes in the undergraduate and graduate programs, which will be conducted in concert with industries(mostly Japanese leading technology companies), governments and NPO, (b) teaching short term workshop practices in concert with cooperative design universities overseas, which might be conducted with industries, and (c) development of the program, especially planing/coordinating the classes, under direction of the program maneger and other faculty. The positions are encouraged to pursue their own research and participate in extracurricular activities.
When successful applicants will possess sufficient design education career, the position can be offered as an Associate Professor. Besides, though the positions are non-tenured and limited-time contracts, there will be possibilities to apply tenure-track positions which will be open in the department during the contract term.
Qualifications and prerequisites:
- A doctoral degree or comparable design practitioners qualifications.
- Thorough knowledge of and experience in one or more of the following areas:
(1) service design, experience culture, ethnography, design thinking, strategic management,
(2) product design, touch-point on public services,
(3) social innovation, sustainability, design for BOP, design for farming/green
- Profession different from above mentioned who has unique and advance design research accomplishments or considerable experience for design practices is also eligible for the positions.
- Proficiency in English as required for the exercise of the duties.
Application materials:
Applicants should submit the following items on A4 sheets in any formats:
(1) Curriculum vitae (including contact address, educational background, employment history, award, academic associations);
(2) Statement for teaching/research, including brief description about your experience relevant to design education, research or practices (max 2 pages);
(3) List of academic/research accomplishments and/or list of practical design accomplishments (additional materials acceptable, such as design portfolio including 3-5 most significant works with short descriptions);
(4) Name and contact details of one (or more) reference;
Treatment:
As prescribed by National University Corporation Chiba University's regulations.
Deadline for applications:
By January 31, 2012, and will continue until the positions are filled.
Application materials should be sent in PDF format and also be sent by post (1 copy) to following address;
Professor Makoto Watanabe,
Head, Department of Design Science,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi,
263-8522 JAPAN
e-mail: m.watanabe[at]faculty.chiba-u.jp.
Materials submitted for the application process will not be returned.
For further information about the position, please contact to Professor Makoto Watanabe.
Department of Design Science, Chiba University
For brief information about the department, please refer to the following Web sites:
http://www.cumulusassociation.org/members/full-members/view/192