RECENT
08/2024: Started new academic appointment as Assistant Teaching Professor of Technology and Digital Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies minor at the University of Notre Dame.
07/2024: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Ethical Engineering and Responsible Innovation” at the University of Waterloo.
06/2024: Presented paper and lightning talk at Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG 2024): “Opportunities and Obstacles for an Embedded STS Program in Engineering” and “The Innovation Problem Finder Dartboard: Embedding Critical Design in the Engineering Workflow”
06/2024: Presented paper at Canadian Communication Association (CCA 2024): “Critical and speculative design for responsible anticipation of science and technology”
03/2024: Published “Fostering Responsible Innovation with Critical Design Methods” in the Journal of Responsible Innovation: https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2318823
Research
PUBLICATIONS
Orchard, A. (2024) Opportunities and Obstacles for an Embedded STS Program in Engineering. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). (Forthcoming)
Orchard, A. (2024) The Innovation Problem Finder Dartboard. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). (Forthcoming)
Orchard, A., & O’Gorman, M. (2024). Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), 2318823. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2318823
Radke, D., & Orchard, A. (2023). Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics. Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 1781–1785. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~eg/AAMAS2023/pdfs/p1781.pdf
Orchard, A., & Radke, D. (2023). An Analysis of Engineering Students’ Responses to an AI Ethics Scenario. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(13), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i13.26880
Guerzhoy, M., Neumann, M., Virtue, P., Anderson, C. J., Singla, Y. K., Orchard, A., & Ratn Shah, R. (2023). EAAI-23 Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program. AI Matters, 9(2), 24–29.
Orchard, A., O’Gorman, M., La Vecchia, C., & Lajoie, J. (2022). Augmented Reality Smart Glasses in Focus: A User Group Report. Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503565
Truax, C., Orchard, A., & Love, H. A. (2021). The influence of curriculum and internship culture on developing ethical technologists: A case study of the University of Waterloo. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS52410.2021.9629124
Love, H., Lajoie, J., Orchard A., Kim, J., Lubin, K., Boger, J., & Sodhi P. (2021) Uniting Sustainability and Ethics in Engineering Curriculum: A Literature Review of Shared Challenges and Opportunities, 2021 CEEA ACEG 2021 Conf. Proc., Abstract only.
Lajoie, J., Orchard, A., & Love, H. A. (2020). Ethical Tech Pedagogy for Public Good: A Review of Educational Initiatives and Approaches. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 29–32. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462181
BLOGS + OTHER WRITING
“Engineering students envision equity and access in Waterloo Park” LA Tech4Good May 2023
Selected Workshops + Presentations
REIMAGINING the history of women in computing | October 2024
Invited Workshop. Association for Women in Science, University of Notre Dame, USA.
AI in the wild | September 2024
With John Behrens. “Crash Course” Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, USA.
CRITICAL DESIGN FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION | NOVEMBER 2023
With Rebecca Sherlock. Conference for Diversity in Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.
CRITICAL DESIGN FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION | MAY 2023
With Heather A. Love and Rebecca Sherlock. IEEE ETHICS 2023, Purdue University, USA. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10155030
“MENDING ENGINEERING: A WORKSHOP TO START RADICALLY REPAIRING ENGINEERING’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD” | JUNE 2022
With Matt Borland, Kate Mercer, Jenny Howcroft, Shannon Veitch, and Matt Robichaud. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference 2022, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Google Scholar | LinkedIn | CV
Critical Design for Responsible Innovation workshop at the Conference on Diversity in Engineering, University of Waterloo 2023
Teaching
University of Notre Dame
Assistant Teaching Professor
“Social Issues in AI Ethics” CDT 30802
“Generative AI in the Wild” CDT 30750
“Elements of Computing” CDT 30010
University of Waterloo
Sessional Instructor
“Rhetorical Theory and Criticism” ENGL 292 | Spring 2024
“Communication in the Engineering Profession” ENGL 192 | Fall 2023
“Communication in the Engineering Profession” ARTS 190 | Fall 2022
Teaching Assistant
“Ethics and Values in Design” GBDA 306 | Winter 2023
“Biomedical Engineering Ethics” BME 381 | Winter 2022
“Introduction to Design” SYDE 161 | Fall 2021
“Introduction to Academic Writing” ENGL 109 | Spring 2020
“Communication in the Sciences” ENGL 193 | Winter 2022
“Genres of Business Communication” ENGL 210F | Fall 2019
