Colorado State University

Description of Work Unit

Colorado State University is a land-grant institution, with enrollment of more than 33,000 students. CSU offers 76 undergraduate degree programs, 114 graduate degree programs, 21 professional master’s degree programs, and a Professional Veterinary Medicine program. CSU’s world-class research and scholarship attract more than $370 million in research funding every year, ranking second nationally in federal research funding for universities without a medical school.

Fort Collins is an attractive community of approximately 170,000 located along the Colorado Front Range at the base of the Rocky Mountains, 65 miles north of Denver. The city is routinely recognized as one of the most desirable places to live in the United States. It consistently ranks high on quality of life measures by numerous publications; see https://www.fcgov.com/visitor/awards for the complete list. The Front Range has developed into a high-tech hub with companies such as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, Keysight Technologies, Broadcom, AMD, Xilinx, Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Woodward and Northrop Grumman located in or near Fort Collins. The city offers a pleasant climate with excellent schools and abundant cultural and recreational opportunities nearby. For more information on Fort Collins, check out the City’s website: www.visitftcollins.com.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has 22 faculty members, 400 undergraduates, and 190 graduate students. It has cross-cutting research programs in biomedical engineering; communications and signal processing; computer engineering; controls and robotics; electric power and energy systems; electromagnetics and remote sensing; and lasers, optics, and applications. In 2015, the National Science Foundation selected the ECE department to lead the nation to scalable and sustainable change in engineering education through its Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) program. Impressively, CSU was the first ECE department chosen by the NSF for this highly competitive initiative of national importance.

The department participates in the CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), the CSU-CHILL National Radar Facility, and the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere. It is home to the headquarters of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology. ECE boasts three Colorado State University Distinguished Professors and one University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, the highest recognition available for CSU faculty. More than 40% of ECE faculty hold IEEE Fellow distinction, and many faculty have courtesy appointments in the departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, and Systems Engineering and collaborate with faculty in these and other departments across CSU. More information on the department can be found at www.engr.colostate.edu/ece.

Position Summary

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU) is seeking applications for Research Associate.

Positions with specific areas of research could include:

• Biomedical engineering
• Communications and signal processing
• Computer engineering
• Controls and robotics
• Electromagnetics and remote sensing
• Lasers and photonics

Research Associates participate in professional, scientific activities at several levels of difficulty and responsibility described in the Class Concepts. They typically are assigned responsibility for the coordination of various aspects of research projects that:

• involve the design, construction, assembly, and test of experimental equipment and instrument systems as well as computer software programs and hardware systems;
• provide information and advice to principal investigators and/or other faculty and research personnel with administrative responsibility for the research program or teaching facility;
• act as scientific or technical liaisons to investigators, shop personnel, vendors, extramural funding agencies, and external clientele including commodity and industry organizations;
• design or supervise the design of electrical, mechanical, electronic, and/or optical instruments and of computer-associated systems and equipment;
• supervise or perform the recording and reduction of test data for instrument design and evaluation purposes; and,
• assemble and evaluate information and prepare reports with respect to feasibility, engineering design criteria, and performance of instrument systems.

Research Associatesat the highest levels make significant innovative contributions to the design and conductof scientific and research methodology to a degree that typically changes the course ofthe investigation, and/or direct a broad range of programs.

Required Job Qualifications

Research Associate I:

• Bachelors degree
• 0 – 3 years of professional, post-baccalaureate (or equivalent) experience
• Knowledge: possess knowledge of basic principles, concepts, and
• methodology of a professional or scientific position, and skill in applying this knowledgein carrying out assignments, operations, or procedures. Incumbents also possess practicaland/or technical knowledge to perform assignments such as carrying out limited projectsthat involve use of specialized, complicated techniques.
• Work experience involves some knowledge of the practical and potential values of research and experimentation in the field involved.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Research Associate II:

• Bachelors degree and more than 3 years of relevant professional experience or a recent Masters degree and no other significant professional experience, preferably in a STEM related field.
• Knowledge: possess knowledge of the principles, concepts, and
• methodologies described for Level I that has been either: (a) supplemented by skillsgained through job experience to permit independent performance of recurringassignments, or (b) supplemented by additional professional or administrativeknowledge.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Research Associate III:

• Bachelors degree and 5 years of work-related experience or a Masters degree with at least 2 years experience may join CSU. Individuals with a PhD who have no additional experience. Degree preferably in a STEM related field
• Knowledge: Incumbents possess knowledge of a wide range of concepts, principles, andpractices such as would be gained through extended graduate study or experience, andapplies this knowledge to difficult and complex work assignments. Incumbents alsopossess a comprehensive, intensive, practical knowledge of a technical field and skill,and applies this knowledge to the development of new methods, approaches, or
• procedures.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Job Qualifications EEO

Colorado State University (CSU) provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.