Other Academic Staff

Cambridge, MA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Posting Description

INSTRUCTOR MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges seeks a skilled and experienced instructor to co-teach the MIT classEC.729/2.729/EC.797/2.789 Design for Scale an upper-level 12-unit mechanical engineering class focused on the late stages of product design and manufacturing for users in low-income settings. The class is taught annually during MITs fall semester (September through mid-December). Responsible toidentifythree to five class projects with established businesses start-ups and community partners in low- and middle-income countries such as India Tanzania or Nicaragua. Will offer input on pedagogy and syllabus design co-teach and be a thought partner for class direction based on the projects and student experience. Partial funding is available for some student travel and out-of-country fieldwork related to this class over the January Independent Activities Period

Job Requirements

REQUIRED: Bachelors degree; a minimum of three years of relevant manufacturing and/or product design experience; experience applying design for manufacturability; hands-onexpertisewith mechanical fabrication;expertisewith value chain and other non-technical constraints with buildingappropriate products and excellent organizational time-management and oral and written communication skills. PREFERRED: Mastersdegree in engineering or an equivalent professional degree in engineering; experience in engineering design and/or manufacturing in low-income internationalsettings; orexperience working with students in a project-based environment.

Parttime job and one semester position subject to renewal.

3/24/2026

Posting DescriptionINSTRUCTOR MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges seeks a skilled and experienced instructor to co-teach the MIT classEC.729/2.729/EC.797/2.789 Design for Scale an upper-leve...