Elizabeth Croft


Head of Department

Mechanical Engineering

Professor Croft is recognised internationally as an expert in the field of human robotic interaction. As principal investigator for a world class robotics lab within UBC, she has successfully led large-scale collaborative research projects utilising robots alongside people in aerospace manufacturing, and guided multidisciplinary initiatives with General Motors and other partners. Dr. Croft is now Dean of Engineering for Monash University. 

Her outstanding contributions to education and research have earned Professor Croft considerable acclaim, including the NSERC Accelerator Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2007-10), the Alan Blizzard Award, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2008, and the Women of Distinction Award in Education, Training and Development from the Vancouver YWCA in 2013.

First Nations land acknowledegement

The UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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