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Caroline Baillie is a materials scientist and, since July, 2003, the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education at the Faculty of Applied Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In popular culture, Baillie is best known as the host of Building the Impossible, a four part documentary commissioned by the BBC in which a team of experts undertook the challenge of building historical inventions to their original specification to see if they really worked. Baillie was formerly deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Baillie was formerly a lecturer at the Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and at Imperial College London.

Baillie is also a member of Critical Stage Company, which is "committed to new writing, or tackling established pieces in a new way..." Through Critical Stage and the Integrated Learning Centre at Queen's University, she has put on several productions using student and members of the Kingston community that link to the themes of engineering and society.

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• Homepage on the Queen's University web site
• BBC World page on Building the Impossible
• Interview from the RSA (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce) Journal. April, 2003.