Adjunct - Mechanical & Materials Engineering

WSU’s Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

is accepting applications for adjunct teaching positions for the 2025-2026 academic year. Individuals with academic and performance qualifications for the ranks of adjunct instructor through adjunct professor are encouraged to apply.

Minimum Qualifications

• Professional experience or academic qualifications covering subject matter taught within the Mechanical and Materials Engineering department.
• Applicant must possess an academic degree one level above the level at which they will teach, except in programs for terminal degrees or when equivalent experience is established. In terminal degree programs, adjunct faculty must possess the same level of degree.
• If teaching outside field of their advanced degree, adjuncts must have completed at least 18 graduate level credit hours of instruction in the field where they teach.
• At least 1 year professional or teaching experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Ph.D. with at least 3 years professional or teaching experience.

Essential Functions and percent of time:

Teaching 100%. Opportunities for on-line synchronous and asynchronous courses may be available.