Assistant Professor​/Tenure-Track Sustainable Product Design and Innovation

The University System of New Hampshire seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Product Design and Innovation at Keene State College, starting August 2025. Candidates should have expertise in product design, prototyping, and sustainability. Responsibilities include teaching core courses, engaging undergraduates, and collaborating with the regional manufacturing community. The position emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches and requires integration of sustainability into the curriculum.
Position: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Sustainable Product Design and Innovation
Position Details Summary Operating Title Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Sustainable Product Design and Innovation Long Classification Title Campus Location Keene Department KSC Architecture & SPDI Summary of Position Keene State College and the Department of Sustainable Product Design and Architecture (SPDA) invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in in our multi-disciplinary Sustainable Product Design and Innovation (SPDI) program to begin August 2025.

Highly desirable candidates will have proven expertise in Design and Development of New Products with an emphasis on prototyping utilizing many materials, manufacturing processes, and sustainability principles.

The SPDI program and its advanced manufacturing labs were created for ideation, digital and manual fabrication, prototyping and manufacturing. Housed in the LEED platinum certified Technology, Design and Safety (TDS) Center, we use this educational facility to support our experiential-learning pedagogy. The labs have an extensive array of classic, digital and state-of-the-art prototyping and manufacturing processing equipment for metals, wood, electronics, polymers and many other materials supported with professional-level computer systems.

The facility supports learning product design, engineering, manufacturing, and their related fields with current expansion to increase ultra-precision machining for optics. We strive to provide and ensure a welcoming, supportive, 'maker space' for SPDI students, staff and faculty. To learn more about the current Sustainable Product Design and Innovation program, visit: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Interdisciplinary approaches and engaging undergraduates in learning about the product design and innovation processes and manufacturing engineering are core to the SPDI program. It is expected that the new faculty member will commit to integrating sustainability issues into all courses. Faculty will be expected to encourage the development of our student design/engineering community while collaborating with colleagues, related academic disciplines and the regional manufacturing community.

Teaching load is twelve credits, typically three 4 credit courses, per academic semester. Primary teaching responsibilities to support this core in the classroom and advanced manufacturing labs may focus on the following areas:
Product Design and Development through the 3 core courses of the SPDI curriculum;
Design Visualization including sketching (hand and digital sketching); scale model making and prototyping; 3-D computer modeling techniques and 2D engineering drawings, using Solid Works;
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA); the manufacturing enterprise (design a product, build, and sell a short pilot run); the use and properties of materials, and their applications in product and process design used in manufacturing; product prototyping and testing techniques in our advanced manufacturing labs. Additive manufacturing, automation, CNC programming, and 3D scanning technologies are a plus.

It is expected that SPDI faculty members will commit to integrating sustainability issues into all courses, encouraging the development of our student design/engineering community, and collaborating with fellow SPDA and College faculty and staff, with related academic disciplines and the regional manufacturing community.

As part of their regular teaching responsibilities at this public liberal arts college, faculty members may teach courses both in the major and in the Integrative Studies Program. For more information about this program, please see: http:///.

Scholarship: Faculty members are expected to maintain an active record of scholarship and professional development which can include creative and critical inquiry, research, and the scholarship of teaching. The SPDI program has endowed funding for faculty development. The College has internal grant funding and the USNH system can assist with applying for external funding which can contribute to scholarship efforts depending on the area of research and inquiry.

SPDI Faculty members have had their research supported…