Professor Katja Holtta-Otto

Professor of Engineering Design and the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne

Dr. Katja Holtta-Otto is a Professor of Engineering Design and the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She works in design theory and methodology with specific emphasis on interdisciplinary topics linked to engineering design. She is an expert in interdisciplinary design education. She recently led the development of a FEIT wide core subject Interdisciplinary Design for Engineers, a project-based subject merging engineering design and professional skills. This team-taught large subject adopted Interactive Oral Assessment as part of the overall assessment. Dr. Holtta-Otto completed her doctorate at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (2005). She has worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA; Professor in Engineering Product Development at the Singapore University of Technology and Design; and most recently as a professor of product development at the Aalto University, Finland.