In view of industrial relevance, aspects such as mechanical design, automation, control technology, data communication, software, ergonomics, maintenance, safety can be included in your research programme.At the Technology Campus Ghent our industrial network offers opportunities to develop innovative and creative solutions for logistics technology.
You set up partnerships within and outside the Department, within and outside the university, within and outside Flanders.You engage in targeted scientific research, resulting in PhD’s and publications that meet international standards and lead to broad international recognition.You support or initiate a network of companies through the valorisation of research results and by delivering industrial services, aimed at strengthening industrial innovation.As part of your research programme, you develop international partnerships, within the academic world as well as with industrial partners.You are able to acquire competitive funding, both project-based government funding as well as industrial funding.You pay the required attention to the technology transfer and application of the results of your research in industry/government/society. In your further career, the faculty will also pay a great deal of attention to the balance between research and teaching time.You are prepared to provide services to the scientific community, to society and to the university in function of the needs and your personal interests.You maintain close contact with the local industry.You play an active part in promoting the Faculty of Engineering Technology towards new students and the wider professional field by participating in open days, networking events and fairs. Degree-seeking students; Non-degree-seeking students; Doctoral students; Reseachers; Short-term study visits; Prepare your stay; Info for keyboard_arrow_down.
For more information on the contents of the job, please contact:You can submit your application until 17th of August 2020, only through our online application system. Depending on your own interests, expertise and network, this programme focuses on a particular field of application within the field of mechanics and/or mechatronics.
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All professors are expected to teach a few basic undergraduate courses.You contribute to the faculty’s and the university’s pedagogical project through the supervision of student projects (for example bachelor’s and master’s theses) and by acting as a promotor of PhD students.You develop your teaching in accordance with KU Leuven’s views on activating and researched-based education and make use of the possibilities for educational professionalization offered by the faculty and the university.Your teaching duties are determined in agreement and are based on your specific profile. Mission statement. What if, for instance, the borders have to close against next year? In addition, you pay attention to the further valorisation of your research results for government and industry.