Hiring And Advancement Hints For Dual Academic Engineering Couples

This paper and presentation will further the authors’ previous activities related to dual career hiring [1-2] and address some updated hints for dual career hiring as well as suggestions related to advancement, both within your current university as well as looking at dual career moves to other universities. Hints have been derived from over ten years of experience as a faculty member, search committee member and department head sitting on both sides of the issue. Besides the authors’ experience, we have discussed with several other dual career academic couples how they have worked to advance both of their careers.