Carnegie Mellon School of Design Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Communication Design

[Deborah Wilt]

Hi everyone,

Please feel free to distribute this to anyone you feel would be a good
candidate.

Thanks,
Deborah



The School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University is inviting applications
for a tenure-track faculty position in Communication Design, starting in
Fall 2010.

At Carnegie Mellon¹s School of Design, we believe design to be a humanistic
discipline­initiating, planning, and shaping products, ideas, and services
that meet the needs and desires of people. We believe that design will help
people shape a responsible world that values the quality of human life in
balance with a healthy and sustainable planet. We build on the humanistic,
scientific, and creative strengths of Carnegie Mellon as a leading research
university to seek, identify, engage, and address new problems as they
emerge.

The person filling this position must be able to work effectively with
undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff of the school and
university. The candidate must demonstrate excellent communication design
and typography skills, with an understanding of their influence in both
digital and print formats.
The ideal candidate will bring to the position strong professional skills in
designing and developing digitally-mediated environments that enable rich,
interactive, and social experiences. Demonstration of creative thinking in
the design of content that responds, changes, and adapts over time, based on
different contexts
or the actions of participants is essential. Evidence of a rapid,
exploratory ideation process that appropriately utilizes physical and/or
digital media to weave together critical thinking and problem solving is
vital.

Excellence in design may be demonstrated through a proven track record of
teaching, researching, and practicing communication design. This position is
at the rank of assistant professor.

Within our school, we are 15 design educators working with 50 graduate and
180 undergraduate students.
We actively collaborate with industry, work with other units on campus, and
focus energy on educating future designers who see design as a means of
asking broad questions, solving problems, and advancing design thinking,
practice, and scholarship.

Review of applications begins January 15, 2010 and will continue until the
position is filled. The optimal start date is August 1, 2010.
Interested candidates should submit: A statement of interest; samples of
teaching, research, and/or professional activities; current curriculum
vitae; and names of three references with contact information.

Mail your package to:
Stacie Rohrbach
Chair, Communication Design Search Committee
School of Design, MMCH 110
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Send electronic submissions or inquiries via email to stacie@...

The School of Design offers BFA degrees in Industrial Design and in
Communication Design. We offer Master
of Design programs in Interaction Design and in Communication Planning and
Information Design; a Master of Product Development, and a Ph.D. in Design.
We have formal degree arrangements and strong relationships with many units
on campus, including the departments of English and Mechanical Engineering,
the Tepper School of Business, and the Human Computer Interaction Institute.
For more information, visit us at www.design.cmu.edu. Carnegie Mellon
University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.


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Deborah Wilt
School of Design, MMC 110
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412.268.6153 ph
412.268.3088 fx