Title: Tenure Track/Tenured Faculty in Shipbuilding & Ship Repair (3 Total Positions)
Agency: ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Location: Norfolk, VA
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Hiring Range:
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Job Description:
The School of Supply Chain, Logistics, & Maritime Operations (SCLMO) at Old Dominion University (ODU) invite applications for tenure track/tenured positions (depending on experience) to begin in Fall 2025 as part of a three-position hiring initiative forShipbuilding & Ship Repair. The appointed faculty will perform teaching, research, and service and demonstrate an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
This interdisciplinary hiring initiative between SCLMO and the Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology (BCET) supports ODU's areas of strategic emphasis, specifically focusing on on-demand manufacturing, supply chain/industry/manufacturing 4.0, and/or shipyard digitization. Pursuant to that, we seek candidates with a strong research track record in one or more of the following areas:
1. Supply Chain Management.
2. Operations Management.
3. Maritime Cybersecurity.
4. Logistics.
5. Digital Shipbuilding.
6. Defense Manufacturing.
Additional research interest areas include:
7. Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering.
8. Digital Twins.
9. Ship Repair.
10. Maintenance Design.
11. Stochastic Simulation.
12. Multi-Criterion Decision Modeling.
13. Predictive Analytics.
14. Reliability Engineering, to include the logistics of multiple supply chains impacting shipbuilding and repair.
About ODU: Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, is Virginia’s forward-focused public doctoral research university with more than 23,000 students, a top R1 research ranking, rigorous academics, an energetic residential community and initiatives that contribute $2.6 billion annually to Virginia’s economy.
Old Dominion University was founded in 1930. In preparation for our centennial anniversary, the institution initiated the Centennial Cluster Initiative, a hiring program designed to hire interdisciplinary clusters of faculty around emerging themes. As the first step of that initiative, we seek to hire 25 scholars who can contribute to the university’s growing research and teaching portfolio in the area of artificial intelligence. Those scholars will be housed in departments across campus and work together on scholarly activities related to artificial intelligence. Minimum Qualifications:
Additional Considerations:
Preference will be given to candidates with substantial expertise and experience in one or more of the research areas listed in the Job Description.