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  • WHERE I WORK

Building a university to deliver work-ready engineers

Elena Rodriguez-Falcon is breaking the mould with a hands-on institution designed to meet Britain’s growing demand for engineering graduates.
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  1. Chris Woolston

    1. Chris Woolston is a freelance writer in Billings, Montana.

Elena Rodriguez Falcon poses for a portrait in a lab space at the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering

Elena Rodriguez-Falcon is the president and chief executive of the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in Hereford, UK. Credit: Leonora Saunders for Nature

Helping to build a university from scratch is the hardest thing I’ve done in my life, but the effort has paid off. Here, I’m standing in a learning space at the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) in Hereford, UK. We were originally planning to start instruction in March, but the pandemic has pushed our launch to September.

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Nature 590, 356 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00335-1

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