Caroline Baillie

Caroline Baillie is a materials scientist and, since mid-2009 the inaugural Chair in Engineering Education at the University of Western Australia.

Baillie was born and educated in the UK, completing her PhD in materials science and engineering in 1991.

Baillie was formerly a lecturer at the Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and at Imperial College London. Baillie was formerly deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Baillie worked as the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education at the Faculty of Applied Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Baillie was the host of Building the Impossible, a four-part documentary commissioned by the BBC in which a team of experts undertook the challenge of building historical inventions to their original specification to see if they really worked.

Caroline is co-founder and co-director, along with Eric Feinblatt, of Waste for Life, a network of scientists, engineers, academics, designers, and local communities working together to research, implement, and disseminate poverty-reducing solutions to specific environmental problems.

Baillie is also a member of Critical Stage Company, which is "committed to new writing, or tackling established pieces in a new way..." Through Critical Stage and the Integrated Learning Centre at Queen's University, she has put on several productions using student and members of the Kingston community that link to the themes of engineering and society.

She is also an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.