Overview
Professor in Engineering and Head of Integrated Engineering Education – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About us
King’s College London is seeking to recruit a Professor of Engineering to contribute to our programme of internationally excellent research and to lead on ambitious plans to grow our undergraduate education portfolio. We are in the process of integrating elements of the first year of our existing programmes in electronic engineering, general engineering and biomedical engineering; in addition, we plan to develop new programmes in other branches of engineering to which elements of the newly integrated first year would also contribute.
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The post-holder will act as the academic lead for this integration, which will underpin our ambitious plans for growth, playing a prominent role in helping to shape and deliver the strategic development of engineering programmes at King’s College London.
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Engineering at King’s College London is delivered across two academic units: the Department of Engineering (Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences) and the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine).
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The successful applicant will be appointed to the unit most closely aligned with their research interests, while exercising a cross-faculty remit.
They will play a central role in driving collaboration across both faculties, leading the educational integration and portfolio growth project, and will be jointly accountable to the Vice Dean Education in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, and the Dean of Bioscience Education in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine.
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The post-holder will provide inspirational vision and leadership, demonstrating an ability to work across departmental and faculty boundaries to deliver complex education change projects, at large scale and at pace. Alongside this, they will be internationally recognised as an expert in their own field, continuing a full and active programme of research commensurate with an academic post at this level.
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About the Department of Engineering
We are a vibrant, diverse Department that looks to lead innovation in education and research at one of the world’s leading universities. To support our ambition, King’s has invested in new multi-million-pound teaching and research laboratories of more than 3000 sqm for the Department at heart of its Strand campus, which opened in August 2022.
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We celebrate diversity and actively promote an inclusive environment and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups. In moving our ambitions forward, we are continuing to appoint academics to join us in shaping the future of education and research for King’s Engineering. We offer undergraduate and postgraduate education, with a distinctive approach, combining traditional teaching methods with modern, project-based learning, catering for the needs of our students and the industries in which they will work.  It is essential that applicants have the enthusiasm and commitment needed to ensure the success of these programmes.
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Further information about the Department of Engineering may be found at  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/engineering.
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About the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences
The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences is a cutting-edge research and teaching School dedicated to development, translation and clinical application within healthcare technologies. Our objective is to facilitate research and teaching guided by clinical questions and is aimed at novelty, understanding of physiology and pathophysiology as well as development of new diagnostic tools and therapies. In this way, basic science can be rapidly translated into clinical applications (and vice versa).
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The School consists of eight research departments: Cardiovascular Imaging, Cancer Imaging, Early Life Imaging, Imaging Chemistry & Biology, Biomedical Computing, Surgical & Interventional Engineering, Imaging Physics & Engineering, and Digital Twins for Healthcare. Our staff and students comprise physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and clinicians working together in a highly cross-disciplinary way.
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The chemists and biologists develop new contrast agents and radiopharmaceuticals for molecular imaging; the physicists and engineers develop hardware and instrumentation; and the computer scientists and mathematicians develop computational methodologies; meanwhile, the clinicians apply them in the clinic in a wide range of areas, such as cardiology, vascular surgery, cancer, neurology, paediatrics, nuclear medicine and radiology.
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This interdisciplinary group encourages the generation of projects far beyond classic research by combining the skills and equipment of basic scientists with those of clinical researchers. Our proactive approach to collaboration with other departments and Schools, both in basic sciences and clinical sciences, means that we widen the use of healthcare technologies and maximise the benefit to patients. There is a close and vital relationship in our work between problem solving in clinical and biomedical application areas and methodological research in the basic disciplines.
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Further information about the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences may be found at
About the role
The role holder will:
- Lead a cross-faculty programme to design and implement a delivery framework that facilities a common curriculum across Biomedical, General and Electronic Engineering and supporting the growth of the portfolio of courses on offer. This will be done in a manner that complements and builds on successful existing pedagogies seeking to make these work at large-scale.
- Act as the lead of the suite of elements comprising integrated engineering education, ensuring they deliver an excellent student experience and that they serve as a strong academic platform for the programmes to which they contribute.
- Convene and chair a cross-faculty group of academic and professional services colleagues involved with the design and delivery of the integration and growth project – reporting to the relevant Education Committees (on which they will sit) in each faculty. In this way, they will act as key bridge between the engineering units involved.
- Ensure that skills development, employability, academic rigour and an excellent student experience are embedded in across the first year of our renewed suite of undergraduate degrees.
- Assist with, and lead where required, aspects of the development and implementation of strategy across engineering. They will also play an important role in the development and implementation of strategic initiative spanning the discipline of engineering more widely across King’s.
- Contribute to teaching of the integrated components of undergraduate programmes and will be required to have a professional qualification for university teaching. They will act as Personal Tutor, supervisor of project students and will carry out other such teaching responsibilities as required within their overall allocated workload.
- Pursue a programme of internationally excellent research in an area that aligns with the existing research strategy for engineering across King’s, including supervising research degree students, producing research outputs and securing grant funding at a level commensurate with expectations for a Professor at King’s.
- Contribute to enterprise and engagement activity across both faculties, ensuring their work has demonstrable external impact.
This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
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The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
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