2023
Alison Olechowski presented a keynote at the Oak Ridge National Lab’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
Ademir Vrolijk, Pranav Khanolkar, Meagan Flus, and Chuma Asuzu presented at the 24th International Conference on Engineering Design, 24-28 July 2023, in Bordeaux, France, with Ademir and Meagan achieving the reveiwer’s favorite award.
Alison Olechowski, Tucker Marion, Mohsen Moghaddam, Chris McComb, Kate Fu, and Katja Holtta-Otto will be hosting ASME IDETC-CIE 2023 Workshop: Emerging Technologies and Methods for Early Stage Product Design and Development, on August 20, 2023
June
Sharon Ferguson joins Future of Work team at Slack as a doctoral research intern in summer
May
Alison Olechowski and Roger Carrick received Learning & Education Advancement Fund (LEAF) Seed fund for their work ” Improving Collaborative Learning Approaches in Computer-Aided Design Project-Based Learning”
May
Lucus Crupi joins Tesla as a battery engineering intern in summer
May
Ainsley Ross-Howe and Alexander Lyakishev joined Ready Lab as summer undergraduate interns
May
Liz DaMaren received the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral award
May
Sharon Ferguson presented her work “Something Borrowed: Exploring the Influence of AI-Generated Explanation Text on the Composition of Human Explanation” at CHI2023 in Hamburg, Germany
April
Alison Olechowki awarded Early Career Teaching Award for demonstrating exceptional classsroom instruction and teaching methods
April
Jordan Epp got accepted into the 2023 Frontiers in Design Representation (FinDeR) Summer School at University of Maryland, US
March
Jordan Epp and Alison Olechowski received the NSERC Alliance Grant (ALLRP) for their research in collaboration with Safran Landing Systems Canada
2022
December
Ademir Vrolijk had his paper “The Opportunists in Innovation Contests: Understanding Who to Attract and How to Attract Them” published in the Research-Technology Management journal
September
Two new graduate students joined the Ready Lab team: Chuma Asuzu and Jordan Epp
Summer
Lab members presented conference papers at a wide variety of conferences, including DRS, DCC, ASME IDETC, CAD Conference, CEEA, ASEE, and INCOSE
August
Ademir Vrolijk had his paper “The Opportunists in Innovation Contests: Understanding Who to Attract and How to Attract Them” accepted to the Research-Technology Management journal
August
Dr. Olechowski presented at a panel during the Onshape Research Symposium on Understanding Collaborative Design with Onshape Analytics
July
Kathy Cheng was awarded a 2022-2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
June
Sharon Ferguson, Kathy Cheng, and previous Ready Lab student Lauren Adolphe had their paper “Communication patterns in engineering enterprise social networks: an exploratory analysis using short text topic modelling” published in Design Science
June
The paper written in collaboration with several members of Ready Lab, led by Sharon Ferguson, “’Why couldn’t we do this more often?’: exploring the feasibility of virtual and distributed work in product design engineering”, was published in Research in Engineering Design
June
Ademir Vrolijk joined Ready Lab as a post-doc
May
Meagan Flus and Sharon Ferguson were both awarded NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral program awards, and Liz DaMaren was awarded a NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s program award
2021
October
Dr. Olechowski presented recent work on collaborative CAD at the INFORMS 2021 Annual Meeting, session: Idea to Product to Business
October
Dr. Olechowski and collaborators at RPS Composites receive a MITACS Accelerate grant to support Pranav Khanolkar on the project “A new automated approach for Engineering Design and Manufacturing Specification generation”
August
Dr. Olechowski was a speaker on the signature event panel “The Future of Human-AI Collaboration for Engineering Design” at the Design Automation Conference track at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.
August
Ready Lab students Kevin Leonardo, Kathy Cheng and Sharon Ferguson presented their work at the ASME IDETC conference.
August
Dr. Olechowski and collaborator Dr. Tucker Marion presented work at the ICED’21 conference.
August
Summer undergraduate researcher Michal Davis won best poster in the Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice category at the 2021 UnERD conference.
August
Sharon Ferguson won Oral Presentation First Place in the Data Analytics, Robotics & AI division at the U of T Engineering Research Conference
July
Kimberly Lai’s paper was awarded “Best Student Paper” at the 2021 INCOSE International Symposium
July
Ready Lab students Kimberly Lai and Eric van Velzen both virtually presented their papers at the 2021 INCOSE International Symposium
July
We had an awesome time running a “Learn to Code” outreach workshop for the teen leaders program of Camp Ooch and Camp Trillium
June
Dr. Olechowski was a panelist on the Mental Health in Engineering webinar hosted by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers
May
Dr. Olechowski delivered keynote presentation at the PTC Digital Transformation in Education Summit: Reimagining Design Education with Cloud CAD which was also featured in this blog article.
February
Dr. Olechowski co-organized Conceptualizing Black Experiences In Engineering Virtual Panel with OSPE and Spin Master
January
Dr. Olechowski received a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants – Skills and Work in the Digital Economy: “A Modern Canadian Engineering Design Curriculum: Balancing Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition”
2020
December
Dr. Olechowski and collaborators at Safran Landing Systems receive a MITACS Accelerate grant to study “Integration of Safety Analysis into Model-Based Systems Engineering”
December
Dr. Olechowski co-organized Female Leaders and the Changing Landscape of Engineering with OSPE and Spin Master
December
Dr. Olechowski served on the Program Committee for the inaugural Canadian Design Workshop
