Below the listing of the specific departments within Discovery Park , you will find the most current job postings.

Purdue University seeks an individual with vision and demonstrated leadership skills to work in a very innovative setting as Director of the Discovery Learning Center in Discovery Park on the West Lafayette, Indiana campus.

Requirements: A visionary with demonstrated leadership; administrative experience in the leadership of multi-investigator research programs; experience in helping to build new interdisciplinary programs integrating research, education, and engagement with non-academic constituencies.

Qualifications:  The Director should hold a doctorate or equivalent and must have a distinguished record of accomplishments and scholarship commensurate with tenure at the Associate or Full Professor level in an appropriate academic department.

Application Procedure:  Nominations or applications should be submitted via email to weiderhaft@purdue.edu.  Applications should include a letter of interest that outlines qualifications and vision for the position, curriculum vitae, and the name of three references (including their postal and email addresses, and phone numbers).  Review of applications will begin July 2, 2007 and will continue until the position is filled.  Questions should be addressed to Dale Whittaker, Discovery Learning Center Search Committee Chair, dwhittak@purdue.edu or 765-496-1938.

Purdue University seeks and individual with vision and leadership skills to be the Director of the Computing Research Institute.  The Institute’s mission is to champion high performance computing at Purdue.

Requirements: Provide broad policy guidance and leadership for the Computing Research Institute (CRI); Assume overall responsibility for all aspects of CRI operations; Represent the University and the CRI at technical conferences and symposia and by service on boards and commission of national importance; Represent the University and the CRI in interactions with state and federal agencies, government officials, corporate executives, media representatives, and potential donors.

Qualifications:   Essential Qualifications:  doctorate degree; an understanding of the computational process (engage applications, enable technologies).  Desirable Qualifications: a visionary with demonstrated leadership skills; administrative experience in the leadership of multi-investigator and interdisciplinary research programs; experience with industrial partnerships; fundraising experience.

Application Procedure: Nominations or applications should be submitted via e-mail to Dr. Robert Bernhard, Search Committee Chair, at bernhard@purdue.edu.  Applications should include a letter of interest that outlines qualifications and vision for the position, curriculum vita, and the name of three references (including their postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers).  Review of applications will begin April 1, 2007 and will continue until the position is filled.  Questions should be addressed to Dr. Bernhard at Bernhard@purdue.edu or 765-496-1938.

Discovery Park at Purdue University is seeking for a Research Faculty position at the Assistant Professor level.  Interested candidates with research expertise and potential in one or several cyber infrastructure enabling research areas including but not limited to databases, web services, grid computing and middleware, high performance computing, security, virtualization, and massive data storage and management.  The ability to thrive in an highly collaborative environment in which projects often span several research groups (these projects usually involve collaboration with cyber infrastructure thrust areas including but not limited to environment, healthcare, life sciences, and homeland security).  Ideally have these demonstrated skills: Ability to initiate, lead, and write proposals; Ability to build and maintain collaborative efforts with appropriate departments and centers; interdisciplinary study and inquiry; excellent oral and written communication skills; interpersonal communication, human relations and team building skills are very important; ability to identify and develop approaches to significant challenges related to cyber infrastructure; ability to foster and maintain collaborations with both academic and industrial researchers.

Requirements:  To initiate and lead research projects at the cross edge of cyber infrastructure and applications areas of interest to other Discovery Park Centers.  Form alliances with academia and industry to foster transfer of knowledge and technology.  Write proposals to federal and industrial funding agencies for research grants.  Become a though leader in developing our response to funding supporting ties.  Lead the design, architecture, development, testing, documentation and delivery of Cyber Infrastructure research projects, including Data and Knowledge Management, Visualization, HPC, and Middleware.  Disseminate research and educational outreach products to researchers, educators, and students.  Develop and independent research agenda, supervise dissertations in conjunction with other faculty.  Develop proposals in close interaction with other University Units. 

Qualifications:  Minimum education of a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields with at least one year of experience in conducting research, writing proposals, and leading projects in cyber infrastructure.  An equivalent combination of education and experience will be accepted.

Application Procedure:  To apply please send your resume, three references, and a letter of intent to Barbara Fossum at 150 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 or email information to Barbara at bfossum@cs.purdue.edu.

The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE) is a newly-formed partnership between the Regenstrief Foundation and Purdue University, which will begin activities in January, 2005. This Center will focus on applying the principles of engineering and management to the improvement of healthcare delivery. The Center’s responsibilities will encompass both large-scale interdisciplinary research projects and the implementation of findings in local and national healthcare settings. More information is available at www.purdue.edu/rche.

Purdue is now seeking one tenure-track professors who will work actively with the RCHE and who will have an academic home as a faculty member in one or more appropriate College/Schools or Departments of the University. An appointment would be considered at all ranks: Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. Salary will be competitive with similar positions.

RCHE is a unique and exciting effort to bring engineering and management principles to healthcare challenges in a fundamentally new way. The Center will focus not on tools for medical research, treatment or imaging, but rather on bringing a systems-analysis approach to the processes and operations of healthcare delivery.

Located in West Lafayette, Indiana between Indianapolis and Chicago, Purdue University is one of the nation’s leading land grant universities with a full range of academic majors and over 38,000 students. The RCHE will join a growing number of other multidisciplinary centers in Purdue’s new Discovery Park devoted to leveraging faculty creativity and expertise in multi-investigator super projects addressed to critical research challenges (see www.purdue.edu/dp).

Responsibilities: Research, teaching and service.

Qualifications: Successful candidates should have a doctorate (M.D. or Ph.D.) and demonstrated capability for scholarly research in a subfield of engineering, management or healthcare sciences directly relevant to this vision. Background, in healthcare delivery is obviously beneficial, but parallel experience with processes and operations in other domains could also be attractive.

Application Process: Applications must include a letter of interest that outlines qualifications for the position, a curriculum vitae, and names of at least three references (including their postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers) - - all in electronic form. Email those materials to: Charles Rutledge, Chair of the RCHE Search Committee at rche@purdue.edu. Or, send these materials to: Charles Rutledge, Executive Director of Discovery Park, 313 Hovde Hall, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Applications will be reviewed beginning October 15th, 2004 until suitable candidates are identified.

The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE) is a newly-formed partnership between the Regenstrief Foundation and Purdue University, which will begin activities in January, 2005. This Center will focus on applying the principles of engineering and management to the improvement of healthcare delivery. The Center’s responsibilities will encompass both large-scale interdisciplinary research projects and the implementation of findings in local and national healthcare settings. More information is available at www.purdue.edu/rche.

Purdue is now seeking up to four tenure-track faculty who will work actively with the RCHE and who will have academic homes as faculty members in the College of Engineering. Appointments will be considered at all ranks; Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. Salary will be competitive with similar positions.

RCHE is a unique and exciting effort to bring engineering and management principles to healthcare challenges in a fundamentally new way. The Center will focus not on tools for medical research, treatment or imaging, but rather on bringing a systems-analysis approach to the processes and operations of healthcare delivery.

Located in West Lafayette, Indiana between Indianapolis and Chicago, Purdue University is one of the nation’s leading land grant universities with a full range of academic majors and over 38,000 students. The RCHE will join a growing number of other multidisciplinary centers in Purdue’s new Discovery Park devoted to leveraging faculty creativity and expertise in multi-investigator super projects addressed to critical research challenges (see www.purdue.edu/dp).

Responsibilities: Research, teaching and service.

Qualifications: Successful candidates should have a Ph.D. degree and demonstrated capability for scholarly research in a subfield of engineering, related to management of such systems or healthcare sciences directly relevant to this vision. Background in healthcare delivery is obviously beneficial, but parallel experience with processes and operations in other domains would also be attractive.

Application Process: Applications must include a letter of interest that outlines qualifications for the position, a curriculum vitae, a statement of research and teaching interests, and names of at least three references (including their postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers) -- all in electronic form. Email those materials to: Charles Rutledge, Chair of the RCHE Search Committee at rche@purdue.edu. Or, send these materials to: Charles Rutledge, Executive Director of Discovery Park, 313 Hovde Hall, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Applications will be reviewed beginning October 15th, 2004 until suitable candidates are identified.