Position

Assistant Clinical Professor (9-month appointment with opportunities for summer support) position at Purdue University with Extension and teaching responsibilities related to regenerative and climate smart crop production with an emphasis on agricultural machine systems and equipment integrated with emerging digital technologies, automation, and data analytics.

 

Responsibilities

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.