Talks and presentations
Invited Talks
2022
-Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) Community of Practice Conference on the Future of Work. “Engineering Communication in Hybrid Teams” presenter, scheduled November 2022.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2.009 Product Design Processes: Slack Tutorial. “Using Slack in Design Teams: Evidence from Three Research Projects” presenter, September 2022.
- University of Toronto Centre For Ethics: Ethics of AI Emerging Scholars Series: “Advancing a Model of Students’ Intentional Persistence in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” presenter, March 2022. Watch here.
Conference Presentations
2021
Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. “”Why couldn’t we do this more often?”: exploring the feasibility of virtual and distributed work in product design engineering” ASME IDETC Conference, Lightning Talk, 2021.
Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. “Exploring Short Text Topic Models in the Context of Product Design Enterprise Social Network Messaging” University of Toronto Engineering Research Conference, Oral Presentation, 2021. Awarded First Place in Data Analytics, AI, and Robotics section
2020
Ferguson, S., Olechowski, A. “Towards the Future of Work from Home via Interviews with Engineering Designers” McMaster Engineering Technology Research and Innovation Conference, 2020.
Ferguson, S., Dusciuc, S., Vella, M., Sivaparamanantha, Y. Tsai, M-C., Chan, T. “Jump Detection and Metric Extraction using Machine Learning: A Case Study in Snowboarding” SPort INnovation (SPIN) Summit, 2020