Assistant in Instruction (AI) Position Postings for Fall 2017
Note: Teaching assignments are dependent on course enrollments, candidate qualifications, and the availability of resources that must be approved by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.
Should we be trying to live our lives so as to do the most good, and if so, what would that involve? Does a human embryo have a greater claim to protection than a chimpanzee? Should we be able to choose to end our own life, if we are terminally ill? Are we ethically required to limit our greenhouse gas emissions? What is an ethical diet? Are we justified in eating animals? Why should we act ethically, anyway? You will be encouraged to question your own ethical beliefs on these and other issues, and to explore the extent to which reason and argument can play a role in everyday ethical decision-making.
Instructor(s):Harrison Prather Frye; Peter Albert David Singer
If interested please contact: Name: Peter Singer E-mail: singerp@gmail.com Phone: 609-258-2739
Position 1 Primary Duties:
Number of AI Hours with Position: 1
Background Required: Applicants must have taken a course in ethics. Interested applicants should submit a CV, a letter detailing their knowledge of ethics and their teaching experience, and the names and email addresses of up to 3 professors who can testify to their teaching experience. Interested applicants should contact Professor Singer directly at singerp@gmail.com We will not make final commitments until we know the enrollment numbers for the course.
Starting and operating a complex venture in a regulated market is often faced with tremendous challenges in developing and validating the idea to attract investors and industry partners. With an initial perspective of what it takes to attract funding, the course will focus on teaching three main skills 1) What makes a complex business initially fundable through private and public resources, 2) Identifying the problem and validating the solution in a regulated, multi-stakeholder market 3) Launching the business and developing the operational plan post launch.
Instructor(s):Shahram Hejazi
If interested please contact: Name: Victoria Dorman E-mail: vdorman@princeton.edu Phone: 6092588676
Position 1 Primary Duties: assist in the classroom with managing in-class team exercises, manage communications with students, help with course materials review, help with grading
Number of AI Hours with Position: 3 AI hours
Background Required: interest in entrepreneurship
This hands-on course introduces students to analysis and actions required to launch and commercialize a tech company, through the use of Harvard Business School cases, visits from entrepreneurs, and two "field assignments". You will learn conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques for evaluating technologies, markets, and commercialization strategies. Additionally, you will learn how to attract and motivate the resources needed to start a company (e.g. people, corporate partners and venture capital), prepare business plans, structure relationships, refine product-market fit, and create and grow enterprise value.
Instructor(s):Christopher Brian Kuenne
Position 1 Primary Duties: help with course materials and managing in-class team exercises
An exploration of the ideas, issues, and aesthetic values that mark the development of science fiction from the 18th century to the present, with particular attention to the ways specific texts confront the philosophical questions underlying scientific inquiry and invention, travel in time and space, the creation of life, robots and robotics. The ways in which this genre reframes the basic question of what it means to be human will be the foundation of our analysis of contemporary short stories and representative novels.
Instructor(s):Alfred Bendixen
If interested please contact: Name: Pat Guglielmi E-mail: patg@princeton.edu Phone: 609-258-4224
Position 1 Primary Duties: Precept leader. In addition to leading a precept(s) and holding office hours, AIs in the English Department are expected to attend the course lecture.
Number of AI Hours with Position: TBD
Background Required: Please submit a copy of your current CV. Indicate the number of precepts you are interested in being considered for. Indicate any FA17 schedule commitments you have that you are aware of at this time.
This course investigates language in its social, cultural, political, and historical contexts. Does your native language influence your perception, your behavior, and your culture? How does your identity influence properties of your language? What happens when unrelated languages come into contact for prolonged periods? How are new languages born? Why isn't English the official language of the United States, and should it be? We will explore these questions (and more) by engaging with the often contradictory opinions of specialists and the public, as well as with the empirical realities behind these different language situations.
Instructor(s):Laura Kalin
If interested please contact: Name: Yolanda Sullivan E-mail: syolanda@princeton.edu Phone: 609-258-8577
Position 1 Primary Duties: Linguistics is searching for an AI Grader to assist Prof. Laura Kalin in grading. AI will also be expected to attend lectures, hold office hours and interact with students. Teaching not required.
Number of AI Hours with Position: 2
Background Required: General background in Linguistics required.
Heat and work in physical systems. Concepts of energy conversion and entropy, primarily from a macroscopic viewpoint. Efficiency of different thermodynamic cycles, with applications to everyday life including both renewable and classical energy sources. In the laboratory, students will carry out experiments in the fields of analog electronics and thermodynamics.
Instructor(s):Lamyaa El-Gabry; Michael Vocaturo
If interested please contact: Name: Jill Ray E-mail: jfray@princeton.edu Phone: 258-4683
Position 1 Primary Duties: Lab AI: Deliver one lab session per week on average. This includes assisting students with the setup and execution of the experiment and grading of the lab report. Students will work in groups and submit between 4 to 5 group reports per semester. You will be supported by lab engineers and the course instructor and a team of AIs.
Background Required: Background in thermodynamics and practical lab experience would be ideal but candidates with strength in one or the other will be considered as long as you%u2019re wiling to learn what is needed for the position. So someone with a strong experimental background and little thermodynamics would need to be willing to learn thermo (you%u2019re welcome to attend lectures). Alternatively, candidate with a strong thermofluids theoretical background would need to be willing to learn experimental methods to be successful in the position.
Fundamental principles of solid mechanics: equilibrium equations, reactions, internal forces, stress, strain, Hooke's law, torsion, beam bending and deflection, and analysis of stress and deformation in simple structures. Integrates aspects of solid mechanics that have applications to mechanical and aerospace structures (engines and wings), as well as to microelectronic and biomedical devices (thin films and artificial hearts). Topics include stress concentration, fracture, plasticity, and thermal expansion. The course synthesizes descriptive observations, mathematical theories, and engineering consequences.
Instructor(s):Andrej Kosmrlj
Position 1 Primary Duties: Precepts (solving example problems), grading homework, quizzes, midterms and final exams, office hours
Background Required:
Methods of stress analysis applied to lightweight structures such as airplane or spacecraft components. Topics covered include: Virtual work and energy methods, matrix methods and the foundations of finite element analysis, bending and buckling of thin plates, bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams of open and closed cross sections, structural idealization and its application to aerospace structures and an introduction to structural dynamics and vibrations. All this in the context of aerospace structural applications. An overview of common aircraft structural arrangements will be presented.
Instructor(s):Luis Gonzalez
Position 1 Primary Duties: The primary responsibility will be to assist with grading and some precepts (solving example problems).
Background Required: Recommended that the AI has taken a similar course in structures, basic elasticity, strength of materials.
The purpose of MOL350 is to prepare you to be a contributing member of a research lab and to advance you as a creative, critical thinker and effective communicator. While completing original research, you will employ techniques used by cell and molecular biologists, molecular geneticists, and biochemists. You will discover how and why specific knowledge, skills and techniques are applied to the semester's research topic. In addition, you will practice extracting pertinent information from scientific literature and will generate a research report modeled on the scientific literature.
Instructor(s):Jodi Schottenfeld-Roames
If interested please contact: Name: Elena Chiarchiaro E-mail: elenach@princeton.edu Phone: 609 258 2803
Position 1 Primary Duties: Two labs per week.
Number of AI Hours with Position: 6
Viruses are unique parasites of living cells and may be the most abundant, highest evolved life forms on the planet. The general strategies encoded by all known viral genomes are discussed using selected viruses as examples. The first half of the course covers the molecular biology (the tactics) inherent in these strategies. The second half introduces the biology of engagement of viruses with host defenses, what happens when viral infection leads to disease, vaccines and antiviral drugs, and the evolution of infectious agents and emergence of new viruses.
Instructor(s):Lynn William Enquist
Position 1 Primary Duties: Attend lectures, 1- 90 minute precept, grading and office hours.
Number of AI Hours with Position: 3
The course is to serve as an introduction to the theology of one of the greatest minds in the Western Christian tradition, Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274). Based on his most systematic work, the Summa Theologiae as the main source, the course will cover some of the central themes of his theology, mainly through readings of the primary source itself, and some secondary readings. Thomas Aquinas has in recent decades become a source common to most of the mainstream Christian theological traditions. Aquinas is an essential resource for any who simply want to study a dominating intellectual force within the wider cultures of the Western middle ages.
Instructor(s):Denys Alan Turner
If interested please contact: Name: Lorraine Fuhrmann E-mail: fuhrmann@princeton.edu Phone:
Position 1 Primary Duties: Assistant instructors are expected to attend all lectures, be available for meetings with instructor, hold office hours each week and assess student papers. Number of AI Hours with Position:
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Background Required: Please submit a copy of your current CV and a brief statement of teaching experience and interest.