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International Recruitment for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

2012.04.09

1 Title:  International Recruitment for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at the Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University

2 Institution:  Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan

3 Field:  Electrical and Electronic Engineering

4 Specialized Field: Electrical power engineering & electrical machine engineering, electrical power system, power electronics, control

5 Assigned Subjects:  Several subjects from electrical power engineering, power electronics, electrical machine, student experiments etc. and related specialized subjects at graduate school

6 Qualifications: This recruitment is based on the “Promotion and Establishment of Tenure-Track Employment Program” supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan in order to foster young researchers.  Applicants must have a Ph.D. earned within the past ten years.  Experience in postdoctoral research is highly desirable.  Any researchers currently enrolled in a doctoral course have no qualification to apply.

7 Starting Date: Earliest possible time after August 1, 2012

8 Working Conditions
・Position:  Assistant Professor (Tenure-track)
・Working Style:  Full-time
・Period for Tenure-Track:  Five years
・Place of Work:   Faculty of Engineering at Shinshu University, Japan
(4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano City, Nagano, Japan)
・Salary:  Determined in accordance with the regulations of Shinshu University
 

・Research Environment
 A successful candidate will have an independent research space and  start-up funds 15 million yen (which is the maximum amount of fiscal years 2012 and 2013 in total.  The amount is subject to change based on the project cost provided) is provided by the "Promotion and Establishment of Tenure-Track Employment Program" hosted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. 
The President's discretionary research fund will also be provided (from the third year of employment).
Research time of 70% effort rate will be assured throughout the tenure-track employment period.

9 Evaluation for Tenured Position
A successful candidate hired through this recruitment program will be evaluated in the first half of the fifth year.  The candidate, after successfully passing the evaluation, will be hired as a tenured professor from the sixth year.  The evaluation will be based on the achievements in research, education and administrative activities.  The details of the evaluation criteria will be given at the time of a hiring interview.

10 Selection Procedure: Document screening (first selection stage) and interview (second selection stage)
Document screening and interview will be held by the members of each specialized field and external members and a successful candidate will be determined based on a fair selection.
In accordance with Basic Act for Gender-Equal Society and Equal Employment Opportunity, an achievement-oriented selection will be made without being influenced by gender or nationality.  Japanese language skill is not prerequisite for the selection but the skill will be required for a tenured appointment.

11 Application Materials:
(1) Curriculum Vitae (Form 1)
(2) List of research achievements: Categorize achievements into books, academic theses, theses presented at international conferences, comments, oral presentations at academic conferences, patents etc.  All the names of joint authors must be written if applicable. (Form 2)
(3) Offprint of major papers (ten or fewer, offprint or copy)
(4) Summary of past research activities and outline of education (approximately two pages on A4 size paper for each topic)
(5) Future research plan and aspirations for education (approximately one page on A4 size paper)
(6) Letter of recommendation
(7) An electronic medium (e.g. CD) that includes one PDF file on which all the documents of the above-mentioned (1) to (6) are stored
*1 Use specified forms for (1) and (2) above.  For (4) and (5) any form will be accepted.  Forms (1) and (2) can be downloaded from the URL below.
  URL :  http://ee.shinshu-u.ac.jp/
*2 Mail original documents of (1) to (6) and an electronic medium of (7) enclosed in one envelope.
*3 Applicants whose the language of native country is any language other than Japanese are allowed to submit application documents in English.

12 Send to:  Professor Hiroyuki WAKIWAKA
 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano City 380-8553 Japan
Please indicate clearly in red on the front of the envelope: “Contains       application forms for tenure-track assistant professor” and send it by       registered mail.  Please note that application documents and an       electronic medium submitted will not be returned after the selection.

13  Application Deadline: May 31, 2012 at 12 p.m. (Japan time)

14 Other: For more information about Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Shinshu University, please refer to the following URL. http://ee.shinshu-u.ac.jp/

CURRICULUM VITAE(Form1).xls Research and Scholarly Accomplishments(Form2).doc

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