Engineering Adjunct

Title: Engineering Adjunct

Agency: Brightpoint Community College

Location: Chesterfield - 041

FLSA: Nonexempt

Hiring Range: Salary and rank commensurate with experience and education

Full Time or Part Time: Part Time

Additional Detail

Job Description:

Brightpoint Community College is a two-year, public institution of higher education and the third largest of the 23 community colleges in Virginia. Brightpoint Community College adds value to the greater Richmond community by offering freshman- and sophomore-level classes that easily transfer to top-notch colleges and universities, more than 60 in-demand career and technical programs, personal enrichment and professional development classes for lifetime learning, professors committed to excellence in teaching, and high-quality, easily accessible, and affordable education for our entire community.

General Information: Brightpoint Community College is a two-year public institution of higher education and one of the third largest of the 23 community colleges in Virginia.

With campuses in Chester and Midlothian in the metropolitan Richmond area and at off-campus classrooms throughout the area, Brightpoint Community College provides quality educational opportunities that inspire student success and community vitality. The College's vision is a success story for every student.

The Division of Business, Engineering, and Technology at Brightpoint Community College augments full-time teaching faculty with qualified part-time instructors. Adjunct faculty teaching is limited to a maximum of 8 credit hours in the summer semester, 12 credit hours in the fall semester, and 12 credit hours in the spring semester. These limits are for total number of credit hours taught in the Virginia's Community College System (VCCS). Additional restrictions may apply depending upon other positions occupied within VCCS.

Responsibilities: To provide on campus instruction on the Midlothian campus of the college and, in limited cases, synchronous online instruction.

Courses offered in the discipline include Computer Programming for Engineers (C++), Foundations of Engineering, Engineering Design with lab, Statics, Mechanics, Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Circuits I with lab, Circuits II with lab, and Fundamentals of Computer Engineering with lab. Successful completion and passing of a criminal background check is required.

For Fall 2023, we are looking specifically to staff Computer Programming for Engineers in C++, taught on campus or by Zoom.

Minimum Qualifications:

Required Qualifications: Minimum of a master's degree with 18 graduate semester hours of coursework in the specific discipline.

Excellent interpersonal and communications skills. Additional Considerations: Prior teaching experience at the postsecondary level.

Ability to use instructional technologies. Experience with C++.

Successful completion and passing of a criminal background check will be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience developing online courses in a college.