The department seeks to fill tenure-track faculty positions at any level (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor) in the areas of:

• Health Systems, including work in any ISE sub-discipline
• Manufacturing, with a special emphasis on nanomanufacturing; and
• Optimization and logistics, particularly supply chains relating to seaports

With approximately $170 million in research expenditures annually, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering ranks first nationally in research funding per faculty member.  The School’s graduate program is ranked 7th nationally, and the Epstein ISE Department is ranked 13th nationally according to US News and World Report.  The current tenured, tenure-track, and full-time teaching faculty complement includes chaired Professors Barry Boehm, Stephen Lu, Sheldon Ross, and F. Stan Settles; Professors Maged Dessouky, Randolph Hall (Vice-provost for Research Advancement), Behrokh Khoshnevis, Najmedin Mehskati, James Moore II, Joe Qin, and Detlof von Winterfeldt; Associate Professors Elaine Chew and Mansour Rahimi; Assistant Professors Yong Chen, Fernando Ordonez, Shinyi Wu, and Maria Yang; Associate Professor of the Practice Kurt Palmer; and Senior Lecturers Geza Bottlik and Dana Sherman.  Professor Emeritus Gerald Nadler remains active in the department.
 
The Epstein department has 550 graduate students and 150 undergraduate students.  The Epstein ISE Department offers two bachelors degrees, six masters degrees (Systems Architecting and Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, Operations Research Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Safety and Security), several graduate certificates, and maintains a selective doctoral program.  A new joint masters degree in Health Systems Management Engineering is planned with the School of Policy, Planning, and Development’s Master of Health Administration Program.
 
The department is home to the first University Center of Excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security, with an emphasis on risk and economic analysis; and, along with the USC Department of Computer Science, The Center for Systems and Software Engineering.  Department faculty members are also leading funded research projects in areas as diverse as optimization, health care delivery, predictive control and performance assessment, industrial ecology, network performance, rapid prototyping, automated construction, scheduling, risk analysis, music cognition, and cognitive engineering.  See http://www.usc.edu/dept/ise.
 
Mail applications, including curriculum vitae, to:


Candidates may contact department chair James Moore for further information at 213-740-4885. Please do not provide letters of reference or copies of publications until requested. The review process will begin immediately and continue until these positions are filled.

The University of Southern California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented groups.