Chris Rennick

Engineering Educational Developer
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Chris Rennick specializes in engineering design education, and comes with a breadth of technical expertise, creativity in development, and experience. 

Chris is accountable for functional leadership in the implementation of Engineering Ideas Clinic Activities throughout the Faculty of Engineering; development, refinement, and assessment of activities; liaising with faculty instructors, graduate student teaching and research assistants, industrial contacts, and other key stakeholders; participating in internal and external committees; and management of Ideas Clinic space and co-op student staff.

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Education

  • Current, PhD Candidate, Management Sciences, University of Waterloo
  • 2009, Master of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Windsor

  • 2007, Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Windsor

Selected Publications

  • C. Rennick, G. Litster, C.C.W. Hulls, A. Hurst, “Curricular Hackathons for Engineering Design Learning: The Case of Engineering Design Days”, in IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 654-664, doi: 10.1109/TE.2023.3295754. 2023.
  • J. Nickel, C. Rennick, G. Litster, C.C.W. Hulls, A. Hurst, “A Qualitative Investigation of Undergraduate Students’ Design Experiences in a Work-Integrated Learning Setting”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED23), Bordeaux, 2023.
  • C. Rennick, G. Litster, A. Hurst, C.C.W. Hulls, S. Bedi, “Characterizing Engineering Design Activities: A Reflective Tool for Design Instructors”, Proceedings of the Canadian Design Workshop, International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 56-66, Jan. 2022.
  • J. Coggan, C. Rennick, “Development and Implementation of an Integrative and Experiential Design Project: Design, Build, and Test a Scanning Tunneling Microscope”, Proceedings of the Canadian Design Workshop, International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 25-35, Jan. 2022.
  • C. Rennick, C.C.W. Hulls, K.N. McKay, "Introductory Engineering Decision-Making: Guiding First Year Students to Relativism in Software Design," IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019.
  • C.C.W. Hulls, C. Rennick, "Design of a First-Year Programming Course with Cornerstone Project," IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020.
  • A. Hurst, C. Rennick, S. Bedi, “A ‘lattice’ approach to design education: Bringing real and integrated design experience to the classroom through Engineering Design Days” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED19), Delft, The Netherlands, 2019.