Assistant Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• A doctoral degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or a closely related field is required by the date of appointment.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each of the established essential functions and meet the physical and environment demands described satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge skill ability physical and environmental conditions required of the employee on the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions physical and environmental demands.

Applicants with disabilities: If you have a mental or physical impairment which limits one of your major life activities (e.g. walking hearing seeing speaking breathing or learning) and require special accommodations for testing or interviewing it is your responsibility to notify the office scheduling the interview or test at least 3 working days before the interview or test date. If you need special accommodations at the work site you must notify the appointing authority or Human Resources.

This position does not include new visa sponsorship for individuals outside the U.S. Candidates must already be in the United States with valid work authorization or an employment-based visa. The university will not initiate sponsorship for those who do not currently hold a U.S. work visa or authorization. If you already have valid U.S. work authorization or are on a visa that permits employment we welcome your application.

Assistant Professor - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Who We Are

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a premier educational institution that prides itself on academic excellence research and community engagement and is actively seeking two early career Assistant Professors to join our team! UCCS is committed to academic excellence professional development and fostering an environment that supports innovation and student success.

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Salary/Pay Range:$91000 - $96000 per academic year. Compensation will be commensurate upon experience and qualifications.

This position isExempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provisions.

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Summary

The MAE Department at UCCS is relatively small; thus all the tenure-track faculty in the department are expected to teach undergraduate and graduate classes while simultaneously developing an externally funded research program. Click here to learn more about the MAE department.

Research

Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering: Assistant Professors are expected to pursue and attract external funding for their research maintain a strong and regular publication record and collaborate with existing faculty in one of the traditional areas of mechanical and/or aerospace engineering particularly in the areas of dynamic systems and controls and thermal and fluidic systems.

MAE research facilities include the Advanced Manufacturing Lab the Combustion & Acoustics Lab the Computational Fluids & Thermal Lab the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab the Data-Driven Modeling Lab the Heat Transfer & Applied Thermodynamics Lab and the MultiPhase & BioFluids Lab. More information can be found by visiting provides a state-of-the-art HPC cluster called INCLINE for use by the UCCS and Southern Colorado scientific communities. INCLINEs state-of-the-art hardware was designed to support a broad range of high-performance scientific applications ranging from compiler design to computational physics. INCLINE has better than 150 TFLOPS peak theoretical performance. This heterogeneous cluster supports codes with distributed (MPI) shared (OpenMP) and GPU (CUDA NVidia A100) parallelization and has high-speed scratch storage and InfiniBand interconnect systems.

Teaching

The College of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS) at UCCS offers degrees at the bachelors masters and doctoral levels.

The MAE department at UCCS places high priority on teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical and aerospace engineering topics as supports the department. The department is supportive of faculty disseminating research in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. As such new courses may be developed based on department needs. All faculty are expected to participate in curriculum maintenance including laboratory courses.

The MAE Department has dedicated instructional lab facilities that include the Fluids Lab Instrumentation Lab Materials Lab Senior Design Prototyping Lab and a machine shop that contains mills lathes computer numerical control (CNC) mills and 3D printers. The machine shop is staffed full-time by a lab technician who provides training in machine shop practices and support with prototype development. MAE students have access to all of these facilities where they can experiment design prototype and learn to use new equipment. The MAE Department is also building new lab and machine shop facilities for aeronautics rocketry and space systems in support of the new Aerospace Engineering Bachelors degree program.

Essential Functions

The duties and responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:

• Provide instruction to undergraduate/graduate students.

• Maintain a funded research program

• Engage in service activities to support the University city state region nation and/or professional associations.

• Provide mentorship to students and junior faculty

• Participate in curriculum development implementation and evaluation.

• Participate in meetings and other activities that advance the mission and goals of the department and college.

• Other duties as determined by the Dean and Department Chair.

Tentative Search Timeline

• Priority will be given to applications submitted by:February 11 2026.
• Potential interview dates: weeks of 3/16/2026 and 3/30/2026.
• Potential start date: August 17 2026.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

In accordance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act UCCS does not discriminate based on sex in our employment or compensation practices.