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Cornerstone University is seeking a full time, tenure-track, 9/10-month teaching faculty for our engineering program. The successful candidate will have a master's degree in engineering. Candidates with a Ph.D. in Engineering are especially encouraged to apply.
The primary responsibilities of the full-time faculty are teaching, spiritual modeling and mentoring, scholarship, and involvement in and service to Cornerstone and the general community. The core of Cornerstone University is defined and driven by its Christ-centered mission and Biblical confession.

• TITLE: Assistant/Associate Professor of Engineering
• CLASSIFICATION: Full-time, Salaried, 9/10 month
• REPORTS TO: Dean of School of Health, Science, and Technology
• LOCATION: Grand Rapids, Michigan

Requirements and Responsibilities:
Teaching
As an institution committed to academic excellence in a student focused learning environment, Cornerstone places high value upon teaching effectiveness and student learning. Faculty are expected to demonstrate ongoing investment in their own growth and development as educators. They are expected to advance student competency in the relevant academic discipline, while utilizing a diverse set of instructional methods that fit their academic discipline and teaching style. At Cornerstone University, a typical full time faculty teaching load is 300 student credit hours each semester and a total annual teaching load of 600 student credit hours per academic year (August 16 - May 31).
Candidates should be able to teach upper-level courses such as machine design 1 and 2, heat transfer, vibrations, fluids, and dynamics. The faculty member will supervise senior research projects of the engineering students.
Other responsibilities include management of our engineering lab, professional engagement in the candidate's specialization area, faculty mentoring, student recruitment, course and program assessment, and other departmental duties as assigned. Eligibility for an academic rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.
Spiritual Modeling and Mentoring
As an institution committed to developing devoted followers of Christ who will be equipped and empowered to influence their culture for Christ, faculty engagement in spiritual modeling and mentoring is essential. Faculty are expected to contribute purposefully and constructively to the spiritual development, vocational direction, and academic success of students. Among other means, this is achieved by being accessible to and proactively engaged with students, modeling healthy relationships, and skillfully modeling the integration of a Christ-centered worldview with the academic discipline
Scholarship
As an institution committed to academic excellence and cultural influence, Cornerstone is interested in cultivating faculty, academic administrators and graduates engaged in scholarship. The faculty of Cornerstone are deemed to be engaged in scholarship when they participate in the following activities and produce the following outcomes:

• The scholarship of discovery: A scholarship that involves original research to advance knowledge in an academic discipline.
• The scholarship of integration: A scholarship that involves the synthesis of information across academic disciplines.
• The scholarship of engagement: A scholarship that involves the application of disciplinary expertise in a manner that can be shared and/or evaluated by peers.
• The scholarship of teaching and learning: A scholarship that involves the systematic study of teaching and learning processes.

Faculty of Cornerstone are expected to engage in forms of scholarship appropriate to their respective academic discipline and in keeping with their professional research interests.
Service
Faculty members are expected to participate constructively in the life of Cornerstone, regularly attend and serve within a church whose beliefs and practices are consistent with the Cornerstone Confession and contribute as appropriate to the broader community. Within Cornerstone, faculty are expected to attend Chapel at least once/week and contribute to the work of the respective School by mentoring students, attending meetings, and serving on committees. Regarding external service, faculty are encouraged to make their disciplinary expertise available in service to the various academic and professional expressions of their discipline and to the broader community.
All faculty will regularly interact with students in a variety of settings. As such all employees are expected to serve as Christian leaders and mentors by effectively living a gospel-centered lifestyle, ministering and discipling through a biblical worldview.
Engineering faculty participate in the management of the engineering laboratory, academic advising, student recruitment, course and program assessment, and other departmental duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements
Unless specifically noted, faculty must be able to meet the physical demands of navigating the physical campus to teach classes, labs, or clinicals on campus and/or in a clinical setting. Use of computer and other technological equipment is required. Occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds may be necessary.
Essential qualifications

• A personal relationship with Jesus Christ and an active Christian commitment.

• A theology that supports the values and mission of Cornerstone University core commitments evidenced by an ability to affirm and sign the university's doctrinal statement, "The Cornerstone Confession."
• Four other foundational pillars, along with the university's mission and confession, form Cornerstone's Core Commitments.
  
  • The Cornerstone Christian World View
  • The Cornerstone Academic Vision
  • The Cornerstone Beautiful Christian Community
  • The Marriage and Human Sexuality Position Statement

These core commitments convey who we are, what we believe and how we live and work together in community. Employees are expected to faithfully attend an evangelical and biblical church whose core beliefs and practices are consistent with Cornerstone's confession and core commitments.
Keywords/Skills for this Engineering Professor Faculty role at Cornerstone University:
-Lean six sigma (green belt, black belt)
-FMEA
-FEA
-PE
-Solidworks
-pro E
-UNIX
-Catina
-Mold flow
-Ansys
-C++
-python
-C
-Labview
-mini tab
-Allan Bradley PLC
-Calculus
- Engineering Professor