Job description

Position Summary
The Natural Sciences Department at Oregon Institute of Technology seeks applicants for a full-time, nine-month, visiting physics instructor position, to start in September 2023. The position focuses on excellent instruction, and service. This visiting physics position is intended to fill a position for a retirement with the intention of hiring a full time tenure track position replacement in Fall 2024.

The Natural Sciences department teaches biology, chemistry and physics to undergraduate students in a variety of allied health and engineering majors, and has interdisciplinary Biology-Health Sciences and Environmental Science programs within our own department. The successful candidate will teach calculus based physics and upper level electives in their field of expertise.

In recent years, our department has been providing more undergraduate research project experiences and experiencing more demand for those opportunities from our students and the graduate programs that many of them continue to after graduation. This faculty member can support active undergraduate and graduate research projects, particularly for our Environmental Sciences students or Engineering students, many of whom are also in the Oregon Tech Honors Program. The area of research is flexible, depending on the interests and expertise of the faculty member.

Departmental service will include committee work. Institutional service may include serving on university or department committees and engaging in regional outreach with high schools and community colleges.

Applicants must have good communication skills, a strong commitment to supporting student success, and dedication to high-quality undergraduate instruction. As a faculty member, they will collaborate productively with colleagues in the Natural Sciences department and Engineering to support continuous program assessment and improvement.

This position will be at Oregon Tech’s Klamath Falls campus, located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in southern Oregon. Klamath Falls is widely recognized for its remarkable mountain and lake scenery, including Crater Lake National Park and year-round outdoor recreation opportunities.

Department Summary
The Natural Sciences Department at Oregon Institute of Technology, a public polytechnic university,
houses interdisciplinary undergraduate degree programs in Biology Health-Sciences and Environmental Sciences, as well as minors and general education courses in applied physics, biology, chemistry, and sustainability.

The department is located on two campuses; the main Oregon Tech campus in Klamath Falls, OR and a satellite campus in the Portland-Metro area, with significant online course offerings as well. Oregon Tech is the only accredited public polytechnic university in the Pacific Northwest, is one of the top public regional universities in the western US and is consistently ranked among the top public universities in the nation for undergraduate degrees in allied health and engineering.

Additional Requirements

• Master degree in a physics or other science-related field

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD degree in a physics or other science-related field
• A background in medical physics,
• Candidate must have potential to develop student research projects and commit to scholarly growth.
• A background in nuclear physics or high energy experimental physics
• Teaching experience
• Ability to collaborate productively with other faculty and ability to support continuous program assessment and improvement.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $56,500.00 - $59,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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