Description:
This role will support the development and delivery of Deakin units using Project Orientated Design Based Learning (PODBL) pedagogy, with a particular focus on contribution to teaching teams in Mechatronics and Electronics aligned unit delivery as well as contributing to core engineering units across the School.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Delivering learner-centric, research-informed teaching practices across different levels / modes of delivery
- Adopting new innovations in curriculum design at the unit level
- Implementing creative teaching practices to improve student success and engagement
- Integrating industry, clinical and/or research practice to teaching
- Leading unit teaching teams and works collaboratively with other unit teaching teams in the course
- Maintaining deep discipline knowledge which is applied to inform unit design
- Contributing to review of units and courses and implements refinements
- Providing clear assessment criteria and timely feedback to learners to demonstrate learning outcomes
Key selection criteria for this role:
- PhD in Mechatronics engineering or a relevant discipline and/or other relevant qualifications and experience
- Excellent record of scholarly learning and teaching in UG and/or PG programs, including innovative curriculum design
- Emerging reputation in research and scholarship through publications and/or exhibitions and/or success in obtaining external research funding
- Ability to make a contribution to community engagement for research and teaching
- Capacity to contribute to leadership of teaching, research and/or administration
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues