Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy

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Description Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering invites applications for the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. The Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) https://www.cmu.edu/epp/index.html at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) seeks a visionary, empathetic, entrepreneurial, and experienced leader as its next Department Head. EPP, established in 1976, is a unique department focused on bringing interdisciplinary methods to policy problems where the technical details matter and to technology problems where the social impacts matter. Moreover, EPP is one of seven departments in the College of Engineering at CMU, along with Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. Fundamental to its mission, EPP maintains close ties with these departments as well as other schools throughout the university through joint faculty appointments, joint degrees, multidisciplinary research projects and centers, and a high level of shared educational and research activities both within the college and wi...