Dr Nikita Hari joins the UCL Centre for Engineering Education

Dr Nikita Hari is an Engineering academic with a decade of integrated global career record spanning industry and higher education. Her diverse experiences range from education and entrepreneurship to research and innovation in the engineering sector. Featured in the ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering in the UK’ (WES, 2017) and listed as a ‘Clinton Global Changemaker’ (2018), she is a global ambassador for Queen Elizabeth Prize in Engineering. 

Nikita’s passion lies in innovation of engineering education – in particular, through developing an immersive, integrated, and inclusive engineering learning model based on engineering thinking. Her aspiration is to develop scalable, project-based engineering programmes with a focus on empathy, ethics, enterprise, and economics; based on issues of societal relevance. Recipient of Bringing Learning to Life award at the Dyson Institute, she led the transformation of the electronics education model by integrating academia & industry, designing a learning by doing module for developing skilled Engineers. 

Nikita holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering as a Nehru Cambridge Scholar from the University of Cambridge and the Faculty for Future Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Nikita’s current research interest is focused on reimagining higher education to engineering for a sustainable world. A TEDx speaker, she has a good grounding in public speaking, mentoring and outreach. 

Nikita is an invited consultant to various scientific and education advisory committees of government bodies, start-ups, and universities across the globe. Current major invited/elected roles: Co-Chair of the Independent Higher Education - Research & Innovation Network, Ambassador Council - QE Prize in Engineering, Engineering Professors’ Council – Research, Innovation & Knowledge Transfer Committee and STEM scholarship panel/advisory board – Proprep (global EdTech start-up).