Dr Mary Hilditch

Mary Hilditch has a broad experience of mechanical engineering and teaching in higher education. After completing a D.Phil 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.