ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR STEM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Summary Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below for IMPORTANT information. The mission of the United States Air Force Academy is to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become leaders of character, motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation. USAFA, located just north of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is an undergraduate institution that awards the Bachelor of Science degree. Faculty applications are invited from candidates who can contribute by interacting with cadets, both in and out of the classroom, as instructors and mentors. The student body consists of approximately 4,000 students representing every state and several foreign countries. USAFA faculty is an integrated group of military and civilian educators. The curriculum includes core academic and professional courses, and 27 disciplinary and interdisciplinary majors.Major Duties: Major Duties of the Position: The Associate Dean for STEM and Artificial Intelligence provides academic leadership and portfolio administration for the STEM and Artificial Intelligence academic portfolio, establishing priorities, translating senior-leader direction and emerging scientific and technological developments into executable academic objectives, and overseeing academic programs, curriculum, governance, assessment, laboratories and technical-learning environments, faculty utilization, resources, and continuous improvement. Ensures the portfolio provides coherent, integrated technical general education rather than disconnected introductory specialist courses. Supervises and develops faculty and staff including civilian and military personnel and subordinate leaders as assigned. Plans and assigns work; establishes performance expectations; evaluates performance; supports recruitment and staffing; identifies training and developmental needs; addresses employee concerns; and promotes organizational effectiveness, accountability, and a professional workplace. Oversees curriculum integration, academic quality, assessment, and cadet technical development across the STEM and Artificial Intelligence portfolio. Guides curriculum development, laboratories and hands-on learning, academic standards, assessment, and program improvement, with emphasis on scientific, quantitative, computational, systems, engineering, data, and technical judgment. Ensures cadets develop the ability to reason from evidence, model and test solutions, evaluate uncertainty and tradeoffs, and address complex technical and national-security problems. Provides leadership for the responsible integration of artificial intelligence as a longitudinal capability within USAFA's technical general-education curriculum. Ensures AI-enabled tools enhance rather than replace first-principles scientific, mathematical, computational, and engineering reasoning and that cadets develop appropriate understanding of validation, limitations, reliability, bias, human oversight, and responsibility for AI-informed decisions. Provides strategic integration, faculty development, and institutional engagement by developing faculty and technical-educator capability, encouraging scholarship and educational innovation, advising senior leaders on emerging scientific and technological developments, and representing the portfolio with USAFA, Department of the Air Force, other service academies, universities, laboratories, government organizations, industry, and professional communities. May teach, mentor, advise, conduct scholarship or research, or engage in engineering or other technical activities when assigned and appropriately qualified; however, these activities support rather than replace the position's primary academic-administrative and supervisory responsibilities. The Associate Dean for STEM/AI is not expected to be an expert in every discipline or technology represented in the portfolio. The position instead requires an academic leader capable of working among scientists, engineers, computing and AI specialists, and practitioners; asking good questions; identifying connections; protecting first-principles understanding; accelerating responsible adoption of emerging tools; and turning broad educational goals into a coherent and executable technical general-education program.