Halit Eren received a BEng, 1973, and an MEng, 1975, in electrical engineering and a PhD in control engineering, all from the University of Sheffield, UK. He obtained an MBA from Curtin University in 1999, majoring in international management. He worked in Etibank as a project engineer on automation and instrumentation in copper plants. He served as a lecturer at Hacettepe University-Beytepe Campus, 1980-1981, and as an assistant professor at the Middle East Technical University-Gaziantep Campus, 1982.

He worked at Curtin University between 1983 and 2015, first at the School of Mines, Kargoorlie, and then at the School of Electrical Engineering, Bentley Campus, Perth, Western Australia. He served as an associate professor at Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His academic duties involved research and teaching in control systems, digital transmission and interface design, process control and instrumentation, and engineering management. He has attracted numerous research grants from the government and industry. He also acted as a consultant for many private and governmental organizations. He supervised and graduated PhD and master's degree students. He served as the head of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Curtin University.