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Mary Hilditch serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences at the University of Surrey, where she has taught since 2017. She holds key roles including Director of Employability for Mechanical Engineering Sciences and responsibility for undergraduate teaching laboratories, while also contributing as a Sustainability Fellow with the Institute of Sustainability.
Her academic qualifications:
- 1985: BSc (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea
- 1989: D.Phil, Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Dr. Hilditch's research integrates turbomachinery, fluid mechanics, and engineering education with sustainability applications. Drawing from 17 years of industrial R&D in power generation and turbomachinery, she specializes in thermo-fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and experimental facility design. Her recent educational research examines virtual versus physical laboratory methodologies.
Publication analysis (1988-2020) reveals an evolution from experimental turbine heat transfer studies to educational innovation. Early work focused on unsteady flow phenomena and film cooling in high-pressure turbines, while her 2020 study marks a pivot toward comparative laboratory pedagogy.
A member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. Hilditch has no documented scientific awards in the source material. Her facility expertise spans industrial test rigs to current oversight of Surrey's undergraduate teaching laboratories.
