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Gillian Saunders-Smits

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering (Cognitive Robotics) at Delft University of Technology

Areas of expertise

  • - Mechanics, Mechanical Design & Aerospace Engineering
  • - Engineering Education
  • - Online Education & Life Long Learning
  • - Competencies and Skills in Engineering Education

About me

Gillian Saunders-Smits is a Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands specializing in Engineering Education within the Robotics department. She has been teaching (aerospace) engineering for more than 20 years and has served as the online education coordinator, project education coordinator and Master track coordinator.

From 2000–2022 she worked at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, and from 2020-2022 she was seconded to the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning (LDE-CEL).

She actively develops online courses and platforms for open learning. She received her MSc and PhD from Delft University of Technology in 1998 and 2008, respectively, and was nominated for the edX award in 2021/22.