Full-time Faculty Positions Information Systems & Software Engineering

Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology (IST) invites applications for several tenure-track positions in Information Systems and Software Engineering at the assistant, associate, or full professor level. We welcome applications with a wide variety of teaching and research interests. We are particularly interested in applicants in the following areas:

• Information security
• Information architecture
• Human-computer interaction
• Software engineering

The successful candidate will have:

• A completed doctorate in a related field
• Evidence of excellence in teaching and research
• Interest in working with a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary faculty

Candidates for senior positions should have established research records and success in obtaining external research funding. Joint appointments with other Drexel academic units are also a possibility.

The IST view of information is broad, multidisciplinary, and practical. IST continues to evolve as an innovative leader in educating information professionals in the twenty-first century, combining high quality teaching and research in a broad, multidisciplinary, and collaborative environment. We offer three BS degrees, three Masters degrees, and the PhD. Full-time PhD students are supported either through faculty research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Library and Museum Services, and other funding agencies, or while performing other research or teaching related activities in the College.

All academic programs emphasize applied research, with a tradition of both quantitative and qualitative research that encourages interdisciplinary activity. We consider experience in industry a plus.

Drexel is a privately endowed technology university founded in 1891. With approximately 20,000 students, it has one of the largest undergraduate cooperative education programs in the nation, with formal relationships in place with over 1500 local, national, and multi-national companies. Drexel is located on Philadelphia’s Avenue of Technology in University City and at the hub of the academic, cultural, and historical resources of the nation’s fourth largest metropolitan region. Philadelphia is also the midpoint of a mid-Atlantic technology corridor that stretches from New York City (100 miles north) to Washington, DC (135 miles south).

Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names and contact information of at least three references to:

Dr. Lisl Zach, Chair
IST Search Committee
College of Information Science & Technology
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

E-mail: faculty-search@cis.drexel.edu

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. Drexel is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, disabled individuals and veterans.