New faculty appointment: Patricia Sheridan

We are thrilled to welcome Patricia Sheridan to the ILead team as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. Professor Sheridan is focusing on integrating teamwork and leadership learning into the engineering curriculum. She has previously taught leadership and teamwork courses at Northwestern University, where she is a Leadership Fellow. Prof. Sheridan has previously been involved in the instruction of first-year engineering design with her PhD research focusing on how students learn teamwork in their team-based engineering design projects. She holds a BASc and MASc in Mechanical Engineering, and has previously worked on large plant-design teams in industry, and on algorithms to develop co-operative multi-agent systems in robotics. She is a co-developer of the Team-effectiveness Learning System, which is in the process of being commercialized.