Team

Carolyn MacGregor, PhD, CCPE, LEL

Carolyn is the Associate Dean, Teaching & Community (formerly Teaching & Student Experience) for the Faculty of Engineering and an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering. Her work spans human factors, usability, and virtual environments, including 3D navigation and haptic devices. She teaches user-centred design, research methods, and cognitive ergonomics, integrating engineering and psychology in practice.

Linda Zhang, OAA, AIA 

Linda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture. Linda is a registered architect (OAA, AIA), interior designer (NCIDQ), drone pilot (RPAS advanced operations) and co-founding principal at Studio Pararaum (Toronto—Zürich). She was a Dean’s Merit Scholar at Harvard University GSD where she received a MArch I AP with distinction, the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize and the AIA Henry Adams Certificate. She completed her BScArch with honours at McGill University Peter Guo-hua Fu SOA where she was the recipient of McGill Alumnae 75th Anniversary Scholarship, the Faculty of Engineering Scholarship, the Murdoch Laing Design Competition (third prize), the Philip J. Turner Prize, and the Steel Structure Education Foundation Scholarship.

Andrea Atkins, M.Arch, M.Eng, P.Eng, LEED AP

Andrea is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, which includes Architectural Engineering. Andrea has over five years of experience in structural design of buildings, collaborating with award-winning architects to design everything from high-end cottages to municipal community centres.

Eline Boghaert, PhD, PLEng

Eline is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and the Associate Chair Undergrad for the Department of Chemical Engineering. Her current research interests focus on engineering education and studying how students learn, to improve teaching and learning at the University of Waterloo.

Christopher Holt, PhD

Chris is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business. Chris is a former consultant and entrepreneur with experience across technology, media, and finance. He holds a PhD from OISE at the University of Toronto, researching entrepreneurship education. He has advised global organizations and teaches entrepreneurship, consulting, and organizational behaviour while supervising the MBET Corporate Innovation Project.

Ayman El-Hag, PhD, PEng

Ayman is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ayman specializes in condition monitoring of electrical insulation, has secured major research funding, published extensively, and contributes to IEEE committees, editorial roles, and standards development in high-voltage engineering.

Carol Hulls, PhD, PEng

Carol is the  Associate Chair Teaching and a Full Professor, Teaching Stream in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She advances teaching through faculty mentorship and innovation, has taught programming and hardware since 1999. Carol received a 2016 Brightspace Innovation Award and the University of Waterloo Distinguished Teacher Award in 2024.  

Oliver Schneider, PhD, PLEng

Oliver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. Oliver researches Human-Computer Interaction and haptics, advancing Haptic Computing. His work develops tools for scalable creation, deployment, and study of touch-based feedback, addressing key system gaps to move haptic technologies beyond lab settings into real-world and commercial applications.

Ewen MacDonald, PhD

Ewen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering. Ewen's research expertise is in hearing, speech perception and production, and hearing-assistive devices. In 2011, Ewen moved to Copenhagen to take a faculty position at the Technical University of Denmark where he continued his research into the perceptual consequences of hearing loss and how they can be addressed by hearing assistive devices. In 2020, Ewen moved to Waterloo and joined the Department of Systems Design Engineering. A recent focus of his research has been investigating methods for inferring effort during interactive conversation, such as changes in speech production, conversational behaviour, and eye-related metrics, and how they can be used to evaluate the benefit of hearing assistive technology.