The Discipline-Based Education Research in Engineering (DBER-E) faculty group in the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is accepting applications for a cohort of three Postdoctoral Fellows for the NSF-funded 3-Cs DBER-E Postdoctoral Fellows Program (Award #2430498). The overarching goal of this two-year postdoctoral fellowship program is to provide participants with the training and practice necessary to navigate the early years of an engineering faculty career. More specifically, the program is designed to train individuals who consciously and confidently span the disciplinary boundaries between engineering education, engineering, social sciences, and DBER (in STEM more broadly) using effective communication, collaboration, and coordination (3-Cs) skills to elevate research, teaching, and service activity in traditional engineering academic settings. As a cohort, fellows will join a thriving DBER-E community in which the faculty are embedded in their disciplinary departments. At the completion of this program, fellows will be prepared to apply for faculty positions where they will be engineering education researchers embedded within engineering disciplines.

It is expected that during Year 1, the fellows will spend most of their time working on a structured research project with one of the DBER-E mentors while developing a plan for an independent DBER-E project that they can execute during their two-year fellowship. In Year 2, fellows will (1) launch their research agenda with a project that will put them on an accelerated track to research funding success, (2) build boundary-spanning skills while working with one or more faculty in the engineering departments to conduct research, and (3) generate preliminary data for an early-career grant proposal (e.g., NSF CAREER, IUSE, RFE, etc.). Over the course of two years, fellows will have the opportunity to participate in the following activities:

Fellows will receive a competitive compensation package that includes benefits, travel to a national conference each year, travel to an international conference in Year 2, up to $6,000 in moving expenses, and computer and supplies. NSF requires DBER-E postdocs to be US citizens or permanent residents.

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Click “Apply for this Job” and complete the faculty information form. Attach the following documents:

Please combine the research and teaching statements (items 3 and 4) into a single document not to exceed four pages total and attach as “Other Document.”

After review of applications begins, those with any missing required statements may not be given full consideration.

Heidi Diefes-Dux
heidi.diefes-dux@unl.edu