Caroline Baillie
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Caroline Baillie is a materials scientist and, since mid-2009 the inaugural Chair in Engineering Education at the University of Western Australia. Prior to this appointment, Baillie work as the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education at the Faculty of Applied Science at Queen's University, Kingston
, Ontario
, Canada
. In popular culture, Baillie is best known as 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. Baillie was formerly deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University, Liverpool
, United Kingdom
.
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 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.
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.
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. In popular culture, Baillie is best known as the host of Building the Impossible, a four part documentary commissioned by the BBC
BBC
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in which a team of experts undertook the challenge of building historical inventions to their original specification to see if they really worked. Baillie was formerly deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University, Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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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
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, and at Imperial College London
Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
.
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.
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.