Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to make you aware of the job opening described below. It is not a
tenure track position, but in a tough job market, it may be of interest to
some of your students. Anyone hired into this position would have the
opportunity to interact with an interdisciplinary research community at
Carnegie Mellon that is extremely interested in innovation, technological
change, productivity growth, and related themes.
Best regards,
Lee Branstetter
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Special Faculty Teaching/Research Position in Managerial and Engineering
Economics for Innovation.
Carnegie Mellon's professional masters program in Engineering & Technology
Innovation Management (E&TIM) seeks a Research Economist to teach and
conduct research in the area of economics and innovation. The applicant for
this non-tenure track position should have a background in applied
economics.
Responsibilities include teaching a core course in managerial and
engineering economics for engineers, to be offered evenings starting in the
January 2010 spring semester. The course provides masters level students
with an analytical framework to understand factors that shape an industry;
students learn to apply concepts and tools necessary to understand and
evaluate innovation opportunities. The course focuses on fundamental
microeconomic principles typical to a managerial economics course (supply &
demand, elasticities, market power, pricing, demand and cost
forecasting) and engineering economics principles for project planning and
analysis. In addition, one or two fall-semester elective courses are
expected.
In addition to teaching in the E&TIM program, the successful applicant will
contribute to a research center studying technology policy issues. A wide
variety of applied topics are possible (e.g., industrial policy, innovation
management, energy and the environment, health and safety, information and
computing technologies). A history of, and enthusiasm for, aggressive grant
writing is a plus.
Minimum qualifications for this position include a Ph.D. in Economics, or
the equivalent, as well as teaching experience.
Carnegie Mellon University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
employer. We encourage minorities, women, and individuals with disabilities
to apply.
Applicants should send a CV, a teaching statement, a statement and samples
of research, and a cover letter to: Eden Fisher, Department of Engineering
and Public Policy, 129 Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes
Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Applications received before September 30, 2009, will receive priority.
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Eden Fisher, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Professor of the Practice Engineering and Technology
Innovation Management
129 Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-9067
Received on Sun Sep 13 2009 - 23:46:37 EDT
