Departmental setting
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE &IS) engages in research and teaching in the areas of industrial engineering, management science, and innovation science. The mission of the department is closely tied to its pioneering work in developing an engineering perspective on business processes, as well as its interdisciplinary research on transitions in societies in relation to technical changes. At the heart of its academic philosophy is the synergy between research and teaching. The department offers an academic environment in which scholars and students work on critical problems at the interface of engineering, management and innovation. The department has two schools: Industrial Engineering (IE) and Innovation Sciences (IS). The school of Industrial Engineering focuses on the design, behavior and performance of operational and innovation processes in industrial and service organizations. It covers the complete business chain of product design, process design, production, purchasing, outsourcing, distribution and marketing & sales.

The School of Industrial Engineering currently includes the following research groups:

The open position is part of the Operations Planning, Accounting & Control group.

Operations Planning, Accounting & Control group
OPAC currently consists of 5 full professors, 4 associate professors, 14 assistant professors, 7 postdoctoral fellows, and 24 PhD students. OPAC is recruiting one junior faculty member. The faculty teaches and conducts research in the area of operations planning and control in manufacturing, services, logistics and supply chains. Research is generally quantitative in nature, while many of the researchers also engage in empirical research.

The OPAC group is responsible within the university for all teaching in the areas of operations management, transportation, reliability, and accounting and finance, both at undergraduate and graduate level.

Description of the position

Disciplinary focus
The OPAC group is active with research and teaching in the relevant areas of operations management (inventory control, production planning, reliability, supply chain finance, etc.), both at undergraduate and graduate level. This position will be filled with a candidate who works within the broad field of Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering.

We strongly encourage women to apply for this position as TU/e aims for gender-balance.

Research
The selected assistant professor performs active research on Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering, collaborates with current faculty and postdocs, takes part in and acquires funded research projects, and publishes on her research in academic journals.

Teaching
Each assistant professor teaches 2-3 courses per year in the undergraduate, master, and/or PhD programs, and supervises BSc and MSc students on their thesis work.

Tasks

We are also open to application by candidates with some years of experience as assistant professor.