The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Caroline Baillie

Chair in Engineering Education/Winthrop Professor
School of Environmental Systems Engineering

Contact details

Address

School of Environmental Systems Engineering
The University of Western Australia (M015)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3137

Email

caroline.baillie@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

DEng Sur.

Biography

Caroline has recently been recruited as Chair of Engineering Education for the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics. Before coming to Perth, Caroline was Chair of Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, where she was also cross appointed into Chemical Engineering, Sociology and Women's studies. Formerly she was lecturer at Imperial College, UK and the University of Sydney, as well as Deputy Director of the Materials Subject centre, part of the Learning and Teaching support network in the UK.

Key research

Engineering Education

Engineering and Social Justice

Publications

Recent publications
Books Authored

Baillie, C., McHugh, P., Davies., W., 'Professional Engineering - teaching for better learning' (CAUT Sydney, Australia) 1995

Hazel, E. Baillie, C.,'Improving Laboratory Teaching' (HERDSA Gold Guide) 1998

Dewulf, S. and Baillie, C. 'CASE: Creativity in Art, Science and Engineering' (DfEE) 1999

Baillie, C., Engineers in a local and global society, Morgan and Claypool, 2006

Baillie, C., Catalano, G., 'Engineers and Society: working towards social justice' Morgan and Claypool, 2009

Thamae, T., and Baillie, C., Natural Fibre Composites: Turning Waste into Useful Materials, VDM Publishing House Ltd., Saarbrucken, Germany, 2009.

Books Edited

Peijs, T., Baillie, C., 'Natural Fibre Composites' Special Edition Applied Composites (Elsevier) Vol 7 no 5,6) 2001

Baillie, C., The Travelling CASE: How to foster creative thinking in Higher Education, LTSN UK 2003

Baillie, C., Vanasupa, L., 'Navigating the Materials World: A guide to understanding materials behaviour' Academic Press 2003

Baillie, C., Peijs, T., 'Natural fibre composites' Special Edition Composites Science and Technology Elsevier Volume/Issue: vol 63/9 pp 1223: 1224-2003

Baillie, C., Dunn, E., Zheng, Yi., 'Travelling Facts: The Social Construction, Distribution and Accumulation of Knowledge ' Campus Verlag, ISBN 3593375079, ISBN 0120735512, 2004

Baillie, C., Moore, I., 'Effective teaching and learning in engineering Routledge Falmer, 2004

Baillie, C., 'Green Composites' Woodhead 2004

Baillie, C, Vanasupa, L., 'Knowledge building in Materials Science , Special Issue International Journal Engineering Education, Vol 22 Number 5 2006

Baillie, C., Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Series Editor, Technology and Society, Morgan and Claypool 2006-2009:

Books in Series
Engineering: Women and Leadership, Corri Zoli, Shobha Bhatia, Valerie Davidson, Kelly Rusch, 2008

Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and the Global World: A Case Study of the Coconut (Coir) Fiber Industry in Kerala, India, Shobha K. Bhatia, Jennifer L. Smith 2008

Engineering and Social Justice, Donna Riley, 2008

Engineering, Poverty, and the Earth, George D. Catalano, 2007

Engineers within a Local and Global Society, Caroline Baillie, 2006

Globalization, Engineering, and Creativity, John Reader, 2006

Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth, George D. Catalano, 2006

Baillie, C., Bernhard, J., Special issue Engineering Education Research European Journal Engineering Education (Vol. 34, issue 4) 2009

Meyer, J., Land, R., & Baillie, C., Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning Sense Publishers, Rotterdam 2009
Recent Journal publications

Lange, K., Baillie, C., Exploring graduate student learning in applied science and student-supervisor relationships: views of supervisors and their students, Engineering Education: Journal of the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre No 1 p 30-43 2008

Thamae, T., Marien, R., Wu, C., Chong, L., and Baillie, C., Developing and Characterizing New Materials Based on Waste Plastic and Agro-fibre, Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 43, N0.12, pp. 4057-4068, 2008.

Kabo. J, Baillie, C., Engineering and social justice: Negotiating the spectrum of liminality, to appear in Baillie, C., Bernhard, J., (eds) Special issue Engineering Education Research, European Journal Engineering Education (Vol. 34, issue 4) 2009

Kabo, J., Baillie, C., Socially just engineering education: how do we get there? Journal Engineering Studies, Special issue Engineering and Social Justice, in press

Baillie, C., Feinblatt, E., Recycling technologies and cooperativism, Affinities Journal, Special issue on The new Cooperativism, in press

Engineering and Social Justice: students take a position, PESTLHE Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, UK in press

Vandersteen, J., Baillie, C. and Holt, K. International humanitarian engineering placements: who benefits and who pays? in press, IEEE Technology and Society
Recent Contributions to books

Aghedo, S., Baillie, C., Offin, M., Vardy, S., Macdougall, C., Alternative materials for Construction, UK Institute for Civil Engineers Manual of Construction Materials, 2008

Thamae, T., and Baillie, C., A life cycle assessment of wood based composites: A case study, In Oksman K., and Sain, M., Wood-polymer composites, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, 2008.

Baillie, C., Johnson, A., A Threshold model for attitudes in first year engineering, in Threshold concepts in the disciplines Ed Meyer, J., Land, R., 2008

Thamae, T., Aghedo, S., Baillie, C., and Matovic, D., Tensile Properties of Hemp and Agave Fibres in: Bunsell and Schwartz (eds), Handbook of Tensile Properties of Textile and Technical Fibres, Woodhead Publishing, UK, 2009.

Baillie, C., Feinblatt, E., Whose project is it anyway? The case of waste for Life, Argentina, Exploring cultural dynamics and tensions within service learning, Ed Stewart, T and Webster, N. in press

Kabo, J., Baillie, C., Kabo, J., Baillie, C., Seeing through the lens of social justice: a threshold for engineering to appear in Meyer, J., Land, R., Baillie, C., (Eds) Threshold concepts and transformational learning Sense Publishers in press.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Engineering Education

Caroline's role is to enhance the learning experience of engineering students across the Faculty, to support the staff in their teaching, the students in their learning and to facilitate a more scholarly approach to engineering education. She draws on all areas of Higher Education research, Education Development, Science Education and Critical Pedagogy to support her research and development work. Caroline has worked for many years on the development of creative and critical thinking in engineering students. She also draws from the recent work on threshold concepts and transformative learning theory.
Engineering and Social justice

Caroline is particularly interested in ways in which science and engineering can help to create solutions for the environment as well as social problems. She founded the global 'Engineering and Social Justice' network (http://esjp.wikispaces.com/) and applies this lens to her own technical work on low cost natural fibre composites for developing countries. Her not-for-profit organisation 'Waste for Life' (http://wasteforlife.org/) works to create poverty-reducing solutions to environmental issues. Caroline is currently helping cooperatives in Argentina and Lesotho to develop products from the waste plastic and other materials that they scavenge to scrape a living. She is also theorising and critiquing engineering practice through a social justice lens and facilitating students to pass through this 'threshold'.

Previous positions

Chair of Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, where she was also cross appointed into Chemical Engineering, Sociology and Women's studies.
Formerly lecturer at Imperial College, UK and the University of Sydney, as well as Deputy Director of the Materials Subject centre, part of the Learning and Teaching support network in the UK.

Teaching

GENG3399 Engineering and Social Justice

Caroline is particularly interested in ways in which science and engineering can help to create solutions for the environment as well as social problems. She founded the global 'Engineering and Social Justice' network (http://esjp.wikispaces.com/) and applies this lens to her own technical work on low cost natural fibre composites for developing countries. Her not-for-profit organisation 'Waste for Life' (http://wasteforlife.org/) works to create poverty-reducing solutions to environmental issues. Caroline is currently helping cooperatives in Argentina and Lesotho to develop products from the waste plastic and other materials that they scavenge to scrape a living. She is also theorising and critiquing engineering practice through a social justice lens and facilitating students to pass through this 'threshold'.

Research profile

Research profile and publications