Fiona Lamb

National Teaching Fellow 2012 Fiona Lamb joined Loughborough University in 1996, following work with an Australian engineering consultancy firm and a degree in general engineering from the University of Oxford. Since joining Loughborough, Fiona has been totally committed to establishing, developing and leading the support and promotion of engineering education at the University, across the UK and beyond. Fiona's work at Loughborough developed from an initial vision - shared by her and her colleagues in the Faculty of Engineering - that a teaching and learning support centre, if established, would provide co-ordinated sustainable support to engineering academics. The resulting Engineering Teaching and Learning Support Centre (EngTLSC), headed by Fiona, was the first of its kind in the UK. It replaced fragmented and sporadic activities with a critical mass of discipline specific expertise which directly supported academic staff. It was hugely successful and grew rapidly in the early years. Fiona has since continued to be at the centre of the successive creation and growth of the national HEA Engineering Subject Centre based at Loughborough (2000-2012), the Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (EngCETL, 2005-2010) and the current centre, Loughborough's Centre for Engineering and Design Education (2011 onwards). Her current role is as strategic leader to Loughborough's Centre for Engineering and Design Education, supporting academic staff in their professional approach to engineering teaching and contributing to initiatives targeted at enhancing the learning opportunities for students. Throughout the past 16 years, Fiona has always been involved in one or more externally funded, nationally focused engineering education projects, often as director (for example the Royal Academy of Engineering's 'Engineering Graduates for Industry' in 2010). She is currently involved in six on-going external projects with a developing interest in the field of student-led activity. One of Fiona's particular strengths is her ability to foster new ideas and translate them into lasting initiatives and outcomes including technology-based teaching tools, the HEA Engineering Subject Centre Teaching Awards and many teaching related guides.