Senior Teaching Fellow/Teaching Fellow Engineering Design (802545) in Glasgow

The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM), Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde, wishes to appoint you who thrives on promoting engineering innovation with and for engineering leaders of the future. The position includes working with students across multiple levels, including Undergraduate (UG), Postgraduate Taught (PGT), Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and also across Graduate Apprenticeship and Degree Apprenticeship (DA) programmes, where apprentices are employed by an organisation and also study towards their degree with the University of Strathclyde.

As part of the University of Strathclyde, our vision is to be bold and ground breaking, placing us amongst the world’s leading international technological universities. We are vibrant, dynamic and passionate about solving the challenges facing society and industry through our cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research, education and knowledge-exchange with global partners.

The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) provides a unique offering combining end-to-end multidisciplinary expertise from creative design, through to engineering design, manufacturing and engineering management of the entire system. DMEM also co-founded the UK’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), which is located off-campus at a dedicated site just outside Glasgow and is part of the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult and the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS). We operate substantial and well-established collaborations with academic and industrial partners throughout the world.

With more than 80 Postgraduate Research (PGR) students both PhD and PhD@ Work and more than 450 students from over 30 nations, we are a vibrant, international community. DMEM graduates high calibre design and manufacturing engineers for an exciting and demanding profession. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment and we attract outstanding faculty and students.

In this period of technological and societal change, DMEM produces design and manufacturing engineers who are vital to our future. DMEM has a strong team working across the field of design, ranging from industrial to engineering design and all aspects of design development. Engineering Design is core discipline in DMEM for which the Department is internationally renowned for its world-class research and teaching.

The 2026 Guardian University Ranking places Strathclyde 2nd in the UK for Product Design (BEng/MEng Product Design Engineering, MEng/MEng Sports Design Engineering, and BSc/MSci Product Design Innovation). DMEM’s study programmes are accredited by three professional institutions: the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

The Department has a strong international reputation for teaching and research, and is one of the premier departments in the UK. Our strong partnerships with industry, national and international academic partner institutions, global research agencies, and governmental agencies ensure the industrial applicability of our courses and our research outputs, and enable us to provide our students with state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities.

The vacancy currently being advertised aims to complement existing expertise that focuses on Product Design Engineering. You will be fluent in engineering design and cognisant of the interfaces to manufacturing and engineering management. Candidates in all areas related to Engineering Design will be considered, with specialisation in at least one of the routes, including, but not limited to:

• design process methodology, design methods and tools,
• creative design and technologies,
• design psychology and behavioural science,
• design for manufacturing, or
• mechanics, analysis, modelling and simulation, experimentation and computation, computer-based design systems (CAD/CAM/AI/Digital product design engineering/innovation), or
• AI and data science for design and engineering science.

In the role you will deliver teaching, teaching support and other activities to ensure that a world-class student experience is enabled for undergraduate and postgraduate taught students, through the delivery of lectures, classes, workshops, tutorials, project supervision and assessment. You will also be expected to undertake scholarly and research activities aligned with teaching activities.

You will be an ambassador of our Department, the Faculty of Engineering, and Strathclyde, and be responsible for developing our Department’s reputation in its teaching activities both internal and external to our University. You will work as part of a team specifically focused on developing our students’ core professional engineering skills in engineering design and the ability to apply fundamental engineering principles to real-world engineering problems.

The role requires delivery of a variety of types of teaching within the core modules of our established portfolio of integrated engineering programmes. The key focus of the role is delivering the very best student experience and giving our graduates industrially relevant engineering skills. You will be expected to teach both on-campus and online using the full range of university digital systems and tools.

The Department currently utilises its own teaching and workshop facilities along with those provided by other Departments in the Faculty of Engineering and the University as a whole. DMEM students have access to a wide variety of design and (additive) manufacturing equipment in our multiple workshops and labs, e.g. the DMEM’s Digital Design and Manufacturing Studio (DDMS).

Across the street and green space from the James Weir building where our Department’s facilities are housed, the University has most recently opened a £60 million state of the art Learning & Teaching hub, aimed at furthering our research and technology programmes. We emphasise through-life learning and offer multiple programmes, including Graduate Apprenticeships, Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught, Distance Learning, Continuous Professional Development, and Executive programmes comprised of modules across the disciplines of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management.

Given the global challenge of climate change and the significant impact of products and their manufacturing process on the environment there is an increasing focus on research, KE and degree and skills training within engineering design. This is evidenced by increasing funding calls in designing digital transformations, designing sustainable societies, e.g. H2020/HorizonEurope, EPSRC, AHRC, InnovateUK, and others.

Furthermore, you have the opportunity to work with the design team within NMIS and AFRC to provide sustainable design and manufacturing expertise for collaborative research and industrial projects and related High Value Manufacturing Catapult activity. There will also be additional opportunities through Glasgow City Innovation District (GCID) and regional initiatives to develop educational mission-driven offerings.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to jointly develop engineering design for the future. Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Dr Kepa Mendibil, DMEM Director Teaching and Learning (kepa.mendibil@strath.ac.uk). Formal interviews for this post will be held on 26/28 May or as soon as possible thereafter.