Adjunct - Robotics & Embedded Systems Professor

University of Advancing Technology; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 27,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, AZ seeks a Robotics Professor to design and deliver courses ensuring students meet program outcomes and graduate with hands‑on experience in robotic systems.

The role emphasizes mentoring students, guiding real projects, and advancing the Synchronic Learning model with SyncFlex while collaborating with faculty to continuously improve courses.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in robotics or related field with 18 credit hours in robotics.
• Experience with robotics hardware, sensors, and autonomous systems is expected.
• Industry-aligned student project mentorship is valued.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver courses ensuring learning outcomes and student graduation.
• Mentor students using YRBL methodology and provide timely feedback.
• Collaborate with peers to improve courses and review performance data.
• Foster engagement through relevant student projects and innovations.

Skills

ARM microcontroller architecture

Mechatronics

Control theory

PID control methodology

Adaptive control systems

Autonomous vehicles

Flight mechanics

Schematic capture

PCB layout

EMI design

Education

Master's degree in robotics or relevant field

Doctorate preferred

Job description

Are you passionate about Robotics and want to share it with students excited to be in your classroom?

Who We Are:

University of Advancing Technology (UAT) is an elite intimate private college in Tempe, AZ focused on educating students in advancing technology who desire to innovate in the areas of emerging technology disciplines including Advancing Computer Science, Information Security, Game and New Media technologies.

Living on campus, students are surrounded by a true living-learning technology environment that incubates their ideas into innovations that students can patent and take to market. Students must create an innovation project to graduate.

We are an entrepreneurial, results-oriented company recognized for delivering high standards of innovation and service. As an organization designed to change the lives of some of the brightest young minds, we rely on the excellence of every member of our family to continuously exceed our own standards and our students’ expectations.

The Role:

The Robotics Professor is directly responsible for developing and delivering courses that ensure UAT students achieve their program’s learning outcomes, complete their programs and have an exceptional YRBL learning experience.

Professors primarily spend their time planning and delivering the learning experiences that guide students towards learning course objectives, creating innovative works and graduating as ethical technologists. Professors are masters of the YRBL methodology and effectively use all of its elements every day while mentoring students in ways that provide them with an exceptionally satisfying collegiate experience. Using UAT’s systems, Professors provide timely and continuous feedback to students while focusing on helping all of them achieve every learning objective. As a teaching faculty member, Professors work with their peers and the Faculty Council to improve their courses while examining feedback from advisors, students and performance data.

Don't have teaching experience - that's where we come in. UAT's team of faculty and staff will work with you as you:

• Inspire, motivate, and mentor students
• Facilitate relevant student projects and innovations
• Development and delivery of coursework that reflect current, emerging and future technologies and practices in the engineering field
• Be an active member of the engineering community and encourage student participation

Education and Skills Requirements:

Master's degree in robotics or relevant field with 18 credit hours in robotics required; Doctorate preferred

A combination of the below skills are preferred:

• ARM microcontroller architecture and programming
• Mechanical engineering fundamental concepts
• Mechanical advantage
• Simple physical analysis (torque, kinematics, etc.)
• Components used to create a complex mechanism
• Digital Vision and Sensor processing
• Edge finding
• Texture analysis
• Detection / Sending methods in robots
• Autonomous vehicles
• Aerial vehicles
• Computer control (for both fixed-wing and rotorcraft aerial vehicles)
• Flight mechanics and electronic control of flight
• Control base stations
• Software techniques for controlling flying vehicles
• Ground vehicles
• creating fully autonomous ground vehicle that can learn, memorize, track and intercept a given object
• Mechatronics
• Mechanical drafting and design
• Design analysis
• Rapid prototyping
• PCB layout
• Schematic capture
• Design for electromagnetic interference
• Common mechanical control methods
• Controls theory
• PID control methodology
• Adaptive control systems

University of Advancing Technology’s Synchronic Learning model is designed especially for students of advancing technology. Tailored to both undergraduate and graduate students, Synchronic Learning provides an education framework that prepares superior graduates to become tomorrow’s innovators. This model embodies UAT’s methodologies, curricula, and people dedicated to fostering an environment of innovation that promotes demonstrated mastery and job readiness. An integral part of this framework is SyncFlex, a flexible learning approach with an emphasis on mentored education that provides real project experience to cultivate superior graduates.

Location Requirements:

This is not a remote position; candidates must be willing to work in-person at our campus in Tempe, AZ.

Adjunct Pay:

$3,000 for in-person courses; $2,400 for hybrid/online courses

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disability. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

UAT does not sponsor foreign visa's. Thank you for your understanding.