NSF AD/ENG Search Committee Review Criteria

We are seeking demonstrated evidence of:

Strategic Vision

• Working knowledge of the major current intellectual challenges and opportunities in engineering.

• Ability to think strategically and formulate integrated plans for education and research activities in the engineering disciplines, at their interfaces, and across the boundaries with other disciplines.

Leadership, Direction, and Representation

• Ability to serve effectively as a member of NSF's senior management team, helping to develop consensus both within the Engineering directorate and across the agency on agency policy and plans.

• Ability to plan, prioritize, and coordinate interagency and international research and education programs and to forge government-industry-university partnerships.

• Ability to manage an organization consisting of approximately 140 scientific and support staff personnel.

• Ability to communicate NSF policy and strategic plans to the external community, including the public, the Congress, industry, and colleagues in other disciplines.

Credibility within Research and Education Community

• Deep sense of scholarship, significant contributions to engineering.

• Broad understanding of universities and other institutions where research and education in engineering is conducted.

• Familiarity with the existing U.S. and international infrastructure that supports research and education in engineering.

• High level of professional recognition in the engineering community as evidenced by positions held, publications, inventions, and/or professional awards.

Commitment

• Commitment to the people, ideas and tools goals of the NSF Strategic Plan and to the strategies for achieving these goals through developing intellectual capital, integrating research and education, and promoting partnerships, and an ability to conceptualize the role of engineering in achieving those goals.

• Commitment to the appointment and development of a highly qualified staff that reflects the diversity of our nation and to the equitable representation of underrepresented groups and institutions on advisory committees, in workshops, and proposal review panels.

• Commitment to equitable representation of underrepresented groups in the national engineering enterprise.

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