Professor Alison Olechowski is jointly appointed to the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (MIE) and the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP), reflecting her expertise in both engineering design and engineering pedagogy. She teaches courses in both the Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs (the only professor to do so), as well as the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead). She designed the course TEP1502: Leadership in Product Design, for the ILead program and has completely revamped MIE459: Organization Design. Beyond her classroom teaching, Professor Olechowski is an emerging leader in engineering education research. She has regularly presented at the annual conferences of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and has twice won best paper awards from ASEE, including for her work investigating the disparity of participation in the machine learning and artificial intelligence communities. Professor Olechowski is also working with computer-aided design (CAD) education researchers nationwide on initiatives to make CAD education more accessible and inclusive. She is an active supervisor of the Spark Design Club and the U of T Aerospace Team and a mentor in the Girls SySTEM Mentorship program. In 2018, Professor Olechowski received a Dean’s Spark Professorship and a Technology Enhanced Active Learning Fellowship. She garnered the MIE Early Career Teaching Award in 2021 and received the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering Early Career Teaching Award in 2023.