John E. Mitchell is Professor of Communications Systems Engineering, Head of the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and Co-director of the UCL Centre for Engineering Education. Between 2012 and 2016 he was on secondment to the UCL Engineering Sciences Faculty office, where he led the introduction of the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP), a major revision of the curriculum across the engineering faculty. He has published widely on curriculum development, active learning and issues of diversity within engineering education. From 2015 to 2022 he was Vice-Dean Education of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences.
In 2018 he was part of the team was awarded the HEA Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE). In 2024, he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy and the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal of the European Society for Engineering Education.
Professor Mitchell is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), President of the Engineering Professors’ Council, Vice-President Publications of the IEEE Education Society and was until recently a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Society for Engineering Education and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Education.
