Job description
The Graduate School of Engineering and Management of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT/EN) seeks applications for a civilian tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor of Statistics position. AFIT/EN is a fully accredited, federal academic institution located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and have earned a Ph.D. in statistics. The successful candidate will be expected to excel at publishing articles in research journals, teaching a variety of courses targeted towards graduate students both within department and from various engineering and other applied disciplines, obtaining external research funding, serving as research advisor for graduate students who are specializing in applied mathematics, and actively participating in the research community of their specialization.
AFIT/EN uses a quarter-system for course scheduling, and department faculty typically teach for three quarters each year, for a total of 3-4 courses per year, each course having an enrollment of around 10-20 students. Civilian AFIT/EN professors are (federal) employees of the United States Department of Defense, with competitive salaries and benefits (e.g., health insurance (FEHB), retirement (FERS, TSP), life insurance (FEGLI), Paid Parental Leave, etc.). AFIT/EN faculty have many opportunities for external research funding, and civilian tenure-track/tenured faculty are expected to fund 8 weeks of their own salary in this way each year; such funding is automatically provided to new hires for their first two years of service. New tenure-track Assistant Professors typically apply for academic tenure in their sixth year of service.
AFIT/EN graduates around 200-250 M.S. and 30 Ph.D. students per year. Typically, around 5 of these will have specialized in Applied Mathematics (including statistics), with most of these students focusing on either engineering (e.g., aeronautical, astronautical, electrical, nuclear) or another applied field (e.g., physics, computer science, operations research, logistics, management). The student body is mostly composed of active-duty officers in the United States Armed Forces, but also includes some enlisted personnel, civilian employees of the Department of Defense, defense contractors, and members of foreign military services. The Department of Mathematics and Statistics normally has around 15-20 faculty, which are split almost evenly between mathematicians and statisticians, and are also split almost evenly between civilian and active-duty professors. This department works closely with AFIT/EN’s five other academic departments and several interdepartmental research centers. For more information about the department, visit its website at https://www.afit.edu/ENC/.
How to apply
Applications from all qualified and eligible candidates are welcome. Candidates must apply via USAJobs (https://www.usajobs.gov) (Job number AFMC-12871200-AFIT-9X-KDB). Applicants should carefully follow the application instructions provided there. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET security clearance are conditions of employment.
