The phrase "academic engineer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who works in the field of engineering within an academic setting, such as a professor or researcher.
Example: "As an academic engineer, she focuses on developing innovative solutions to complex engineering problems through research and teaching."
Alternatives: "engineering academic" or "scholarly engineer".
Kenneth Johnson was a distinguished academic engineer, and author of the principal text in contact mechanics, his specialist area.
My father, Norman Macleod, who has died aged 90, was an academic engineer and zealous inventor, whose creations ranged from an artificial heart valve to windscreen wipers for motorcycle goggles.
He began by replacing the man in charge with Erich Reinhardt, a diminutive, soft-spoken academic engineer who had spent most of his dozen years at Siemens working with its medical machines.
A novel dataset tracks the careers of academic engineers and their relationships with this sponsor.
Ministers have set up a "National Skills Academy for Nuclear", which offers foundation degrees and lower-level vocational qualifications.They are particularly keen on turning out academic engineers and physicists with specialised masters' degrees.
Through NSF, the company partnered with academic engineers and computer scientists at the University of Arkansas and 11 other partner groups at universities around the country.
Once the province of academic engineers, there is increasingly a consensus emerging among technology leaders that millimeter-wave technology is ready for prime time.
1. Publish in high-impact journals; 2. Secure research funding; 3. Attend conferences and talk to other researchers in your field (and in related fields); 4. Work in a department that values its staff and offers career progression (you'll only work out which these are by talking to other academic engineers); 5. Build an international research career (i.e., do a postdoc in a different country).
On Monday, hundreds of thousands of academics, engineers and lawyers in Denmark announced they will vote on divesting their €32bn (£23bn) pension funds from fossil fuels.
"The shortage of working-class actors is simply a mirror of what's going on everywhere: a shortage of working-class academics, engineers and politicians.
Trade unionists and industry leaders will come together with academics, engineers and public institutions to build detailed regional plans setting out the challenges and opportunities ahead.
