Dr Mary Hilditch
Academic and research departments
Centre for Aerodynamics, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, Centre for Environmental and Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering.About
Biography
Mary Hilditch has a broad experience of mechanical engineering and teaching in higher education. After completing a DPhil relating to heat transfer in gas turbines at University of Oxford, she spent 17 years working on experimental research projects for industry in the fields of turbomachinery and power generation and was involved in facility operation and design, instrumentation, thermo-fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
Dr Hilditch has taught on higher education programmes for more than 10 years and has been at the University of Surrey since 2017. She brings her prior experience to a broad range of teaching and student projects with interests ranging across design, fluid mechanics and energy.
University roles and responsibilities
- Programme Leader in Biomedical Engineering
- Responsible for Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories
- Sustainability Fellow with Institute of Sustainability
My qualifications
Affiliations and memberships
ResearchResearch interests
- Turbomachinery
- Fluid mechanics
- Engineering education
- Sustainability
Research interests
- Turbomachinery
- Fluid mechanics
- Engineering education
- Sustainability
Teaching
- ENG1062 Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
- ENG2134 Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
- ENG1091 Experimental and Professional Skills
- ENG2125 Design Skills
- ENG2136 Design Make and Evaluate
- ENG3172 Turbomachinery and Aircraft Propulsion
Sustainable development goals
My research interests are related to the following:
