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Alternate Department Description Job Category Adjunct Faculty Role (State) Job Title Adjunct Faculty (Bioengineering) Working Title Adjunct Faculty Location Fairfax, VA Other Location Salary Commensurate with education and experience. **Adjunct Faculty, Bioengineering** The George Mason Department of Bioengineering, within the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC ), invites interested applicants to join the faculty as part-time Adjunct Faculty members beginning Fall 2021. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Masons academic and culturally inclusive environment. **About the Position:**Adjunct faculty members are needed to teach required and elective course(s) in bioengineering, most specifically in biomedical instrumentation, electronics, and imaging. Courses are offered on the Fairfax campus during daytime and evening hours. **Expertise in the following course(s) are needed:**
* BENG 370 Bioinstrumentation and Devices I (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022)
* BENG 360 Biomedical Imaging (Fall 2021)
* BENG 437/537 Medical Image Processing (Spring 2022)
* BENG 241 Biomechanics and Biomaterials Lab (Spring 2022)
**Responsibilities:**
* Prepare and teach assigned courses at assigned class meetings, based on course catalog description and approved course outline;
* Prepare and objectively grade class assignments and exams within a timely manner, in accordance with course outcomes;
* Maintain accurate student records;
* Assist and foster student success through the maintenance of regularly scheduled office hours and timely responses to e-mail inquiries;
* Adhere to all administrative university policies such as the timely submission of completed midterm and final grades;
* Maintain appropriate professional development to stay current within assigned courses;
* Maintain appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics;
* Other duties as assigned by contract and/or by the chair or associate chair including assessing course(s) taught for continuous improvement.
**Required Qualifications:**
* Applicants must have earned a Masters degree by the start of this position in Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a closely related field;
* Applicants must possess strong oral and written communication skills.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
* Terminal degree in Bioengineering or related field;
* Teaching experience at the collegiate level;
* Teaching and/or professional expertise in one or more of the following areas: clinical biomedical engineering, bioinstrumentation, imaging, computational biomedicine, biomaterials, tissue; engineering, biotechnology, nanomedicine, biomechanics, bioinformatics, biomedical signal processing, and physiological modeling;
* Experience with a learning management system, preferably Blackboard.
**About the Department:**
Masons Bioengineering department () has 13 faculty members in four research pillars: biomedical imaging and devices, computational biomedicine, biomaterials and nanomedicine, neurotechnology and computational neuroscience. Newly constructed research facilities in these focus areas opened in 2018. Bioengineering faculty research is funded by several federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH ), National Science Foundation (NSF ), Department of Defense (DoD), and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), with over $20 million in active research funding. The department has a thriving ABET -accredited undergraduate program with over 250 undergraduate students, a new rapidly-growing PhD program, and a MS program just launched in 2018. The department has several growing partnerships with regional centers such as the Inova Center for Personalized Health (ICPH ) which includes the Center for Surgery and Bioengineering Research (CSBR ) and the Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Institute (GBRI ). **Mason Engineering The Future of Engineering Is Here:**
The College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University is comprised of the Volgenau School of Engineering and (effective June 1, 2021) a new School of Computing. The College is a fast-growing force for innovation in research and education. It boasts more than 8,600 students in 37 undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degree programs, including several first-in-the-nation offerings. Of the 250 full-time faculty who comprise the School, 90 are tenured, 50 are tenure-track, 85 are instructional faculty, and 25 are research faculty. As part of a nationally ranked research university, its research teams expended more than $60 million in sponsored research awards last year and has projects with over $400 million in current and anticipated awards. Located in the heart of Northern Virginias technology corridor, Mason Engineering stands out for its research in many leading areas including artificial intelligence, data analytics engineering, cybersecurity engineering, biomedical imaging and devices, community-based healthcare, autonomous systems, 5G communications, systems architectures, computational biomedicine, advanced materials and manufacturing, sustainable infrastructure, and more. The School highly encourages multidisciplinary research and provides faculty with opportunities to work with other disciplines. George Mason University is the largest public research university in Virginia, with an enrollment of over 38,000 students studying in over 200 degree programs. Mason is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in a range of academic fields. It was classified as an R1 research institution in 2016 by the Carnegie Classifications of Institutes of Higher Education. Mason is located in the city of Fairfax in Northern Virginia at the doorstep of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, with unmatched geographical access to a number of federal agencies and national laboratories. Northern Virginia is also home to one of the largest concentrations of high-tech firms in the nation, providing excellent opportunities for interaction with industry. Fairfax is consistently rated as being among the best places to live in the country and has an outstanding local public school system. In conjunction with Amazons decision to establish a second headquarters in Northern Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia announced a multi-year plan to invest in the growth of degree programs in computing, and George Mason University has committed to accelerate its plans to grow its capacity in computing and high-tech fields. Among the exciting initiatives being undertaken by the university are the launch of the Institute for Digital InnovAtion, a university think tank and incubator to serve the digital economy, and the expansion of its Arlington Campus with a planned 400,000 square foot Digital InnovAtion Building. These initiatives reflect hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment by Mason that will rapidly elevate Masons already leading national position in computing and related areas.
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George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in both academics and research. Mason holds a top *U.S. News and World Report* Up and Coming spot for national universities and is recognized for its global appeal and excellence in higher education.
Mason is currently the largest and most diverse university in Virginia with students and faculty from all 50 states and over 135 countries studying in over 200 degree programs at campuses in Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William, as well as at learning locations across the commonwealth. Rooted in Masons diversity is a campus culture that is both rewarding and exciting, work that is meaningful, and opportunities to both collaborate and create.
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