Dr. Margaret Szabo

Biography

Margaret Szabo is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Structural Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, where she has been since 2015. She teaches various subjects including Mechanics and Structural Mechanics in Year 1, as well as Design and Steel Structures in the Year 4 MEng programme. Margaret serves as the Undergraduate Senior Tutor and is the Year 3 Coordinator, along with being the Group Design Project Coordinator. She holds a double MSc degree in Civil Engineering from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in France and the Technical University of Budapest. Upon graduation, she worked as a Structural Engineer in a bridges team at Halcrow and Mott MacDonald. She obtained her PhD from the University of Southampton, during which she investigated material properties at the bone microstructural level. Finding teaching to be a highly rewarding activity, she made the choice to pursue a teaching position in Higher Education after completing her PhD. Her teaching journey includes an Academic Tutor position at the University of Surrey and a Lecturer role at South Bank University, where she engaged in a rigorous teaching environment that allowed her to advance her career in education. Margaret completed a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching at the University of Surrey and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a recognition she achieved in 2014.

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