Assistant Professor Nuclear Engineering Fall 2025
Assistant Professor Nuclear Engineering Fall 2025
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The Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) is seeking applications to fill a tenuretrack faculty position at the Assistant Professor level starting on August 1 2025. Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in nuclear engineeringrelated subjects generating externally funded research advising graduate students writing scholarly journal articles and providing service to the department college university and professional community.
The University of Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Department is part of the Tickle College of Engineering which has the fastest growing PhD program among the Top 40 public colleges of engineering. The department has a diverse research portfolio and is the largest Nuclear Engineering PhD program in the United States with over 120 PhD students and over $17M in annual research expenditures. According to ASEE it also has the second largest undergraduate program. In 2021 we moved into a new $129M building which houses more than 23 new nuclear engineering laboratories and computational resources. In the past 3 years our undergraduate program has experienced an unprecedented 100 growth in firstyear enrollment with 97 new freshman. UTK has close collaborations with ORNL Y12 and more than 150 nuclearrelated companies within 50 miles of campus and is located close to the beautiful Smoky Mountains. The Nuclear Engineering Department is committed to cultivating work/life balance and a familyfriendly work environment for faculty staff and students.
The Tickle College of Engineering is in the midst of an unprecedented period of growth and success including adding over 30 new faculty as part of ambitious cluster hiring campaigns led by Chancellor Donde Plowman and Dean Matthew Mench. The college has set records in research expenditures enrollment incoming student GPA diversity intellectual property development and USNWR rank in the past three years. New facilities include the stateofthe art Zeanah Engineering Complex the University of Tennessee Manufacturing and Design Enterprise (TNMADE) facility and the Innovation South building now under construction that will house UTKs Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF). TCE currently has 185 Tenure/Tenure Track and 67 NonTenure Track faculty in its seven academic departments and offers 12 undergraduate 16 MS and 15 PhD degree programs. Affiliated with TCE and located in Tullahoma Tennessee the UT Space Institute is a hub of aerospace and defense research. The college is also home to eight research centers and three interdisciplinary institutes. With approximately 3800 undergraduate and 1150 graduate students the college sits 29th among public universities in the most recent U.S. News and World Report graduate rankings. Faculty in the college have won 21 early career awards (NSF DoE DARPA AFOSR and ARO) since 2016. In FY22 the college had NSF HERD research expenditures of $109 million.
Knoxville TN is a vibrant city with a beautiful and walkable downtown active neighborhoods an effervescent nightlife that includes numerous theaters and museums a rich live music scene across all genres and eclectic restaurants. Knoxville is nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains surrounded by lakes and the Tennessee River providing an amazing access to outdoor activities of all kinds. Knoxville is within 200 miles of four major metropolitan areas that regularly host larger cultural and entertainment events.
Applicants must have a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering or a closely related field by the effective date of appointment.
Applicants should be able to contribute to existing courses and research activities in nuclear engineering as well as to develop new avenues of research and teaching. Specific areas of expertise can fall within any of the three signature capabilities of our department which include: ensuring the sustainability and future expansion of nuclear power; radiation detection nuclear security and nonproliferation; and radiological engineering nuclear chemistry and medicine and medical physics. Ideally successful candidates could work across more than one of these signature areas. Preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated research success that complements existing University of Tennessee strengths and with the vision to develop collaborative and sustainable funded research activities. In addition to demonstrated excellence in research and the potential for developing a highly visible externally funded research program successful candidates will also be committed to highquality undergraduate and graduate teaching.
Employment Type
Full Time
