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Changing the face of HS2

19/10/2025
Asiha Khan civil engineering graduate

WLV LIFE MAGAZINE: Read the story of alumna, Asiha Khan, BEng Civil Engineering graduate working on HS2

Asiha – pronounced “Aisha,” due to her father’s misspelling when she was a baby – Khan, is like the spelling of her name: exceptional.

As a young, female Muslim of shorter stature, Asiha is far from the stereotypical British engineer, but her rapid career rise says it all. From graduate engineer in 2018 to becoming a design coordinator in 2022, Asiha has been making waves in the civil engineering industry.

Ever since university, she has been contributing to the largest infrastructure project in Europe: High Speed 2 (HS2), a high-speed railway which has been under construction in England since 2019, and will connect southern Staffordshire to London, with a branch to Birmingham.

Born, raised, and still living in Luton, England, Asiha didn’t always want to be an engineer, but from a young age it was clear she had the potential...

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