Clinical Assistant Professor of Machine Systems for Climate Smart Crop Production
Job Description
This is a non-tenure track, academic-year appointment with 50% Extension and 50% teaching responsibilities for undergraduate and graduate courses.
Expected Extension duties: The candidate is expected to collaborate with and develop programs within Purdue Extension in areas related but not limited to farm machinery, equipment setup and modifications, and emerging digital technologies to enable climate smart and regenerative crop production systems such as no-till, cover cropping, and other conservation cropping system practices. The candidate will collaborate closely with the Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative (CCSI) and other stakeholders. CCSI is a program of the Indiana Conservation Partnership with a mission of improving soil health on Indiana cropland. In collaboration with faculty and staff from other academic units, the candidate will conduct needs assessments, provide technical assistance, develop Extension outputs such as videos, Extension publications, reports, and popular press articles, and host workshops, trainings, and Extension programs. Collaboration with Purdue on the Farm supporting field demonstrations and applied research is strongly encouraged.
Expected teaching duties: The candidate is expected to teach and develop courses in the ABE department related to agricultural machinery and equipment for regenerative and climate smart agriculture cropping systems, precision agriculture, digital agriculture, and data science applications in agriculture. The exact number and courses are to be determined on an annual basis. The potential exists for teaching online/distance courses during the academic year.
Applicants are invited to consider teaching a selection of these potential courses:
ASM 22200: Crop Production Equipment
ASM 34500: Power Units and Power Trains
ASM 42200: Advanced Machine Tech for Crop Production
ASM 53000: Power and Machinery Management
ABE 30600: (Proposed) Data Analysis and Geospatial Prescriptions
ABE 32200: (Proposed) Design of Modern Ag Machinery