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A secondary joint appointment is an unpaid appointment of a faculty member to a second university department when that person will be regularly participating in teaching, research, or graduate supervision responsibilities of more than one university department. Any faculty member who receives a secondary joint appointment will no longer be considered an external member to their new department. As such, if the faculty member is serving on a student’s committee as an external member, the student’s committee will need to be revised to add a new external member. If the department is unsure if the faculty member is serving as an external committee member, they can run a report in Aurora for verification.

All secondary joint appointees who will be the instructors of record for lectures, laboratories, independent studies,
internships, clinicals, or any other credit-bearing experience must comply with the university’s faculty teaching qualifications
guidelines. If appointees serve as instructors of record in the host unit, that unit must submit an electronic teaching
certification form via the Faculty Qualifications Management System (FQMS) in PeopleSoft if one is not already on file for the
faculty member’s teaching assignment in the host unit. All teaching assignments are subject to UCF faculty teaching
qualification guidelines

Some expectations of a secondary joint appointment may include, but are not limited to:

  • Serving on a student’s thesis/dissertation committee
  • Instructing courses under the department’s prefix
  • Conducting research

Any other expectations will be provided by the department’s chair.

For more information on a secondary joint appointment, please contact the faculty member below per department.

Department

Contact

Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering

Dr. Naveen Eluru

Computer Science

Dr. Wei Zhang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Mingjie Lin

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

Dr Mansooreh Mollaghasemi

Materials Science and Engineering

Dr. Jiyu Fang

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Jihua Gou

Modeling and Simulation

Dr. Valerie Sims