Full-Time Faculty

Hesham El Naggar

PhD, P.Eng., FCAE, FEIC, FASCE

Hesham is the Director of John M. Thompson in Engineering Leadership and Innovation and a Distinguished University Professor of Western University, Canada.
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Joshua Pearce

BSc, PhD, FCAE

Joshua is the John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation, cross-appointed Professor at the Ivey Business School and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
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John Dickinson

BSc, MMath, PhD, P.Eng.

John is the co-coordinator and an instructor of ES1050, Foundations of Engineering Practice, a core course covering the engineering design process, innovation, teamwork, and foundational engineering skills.
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Laurie Lockington-Wong

BSc(Eng), MEd, P.Eng.

Laurie Lockington, P.Eng., has held industry positions with CP Rail, Spartan Plastics, and Smart Technologies, and previously served as a Director on the Board of the London Home Builders’ Association. As a licensed Professional Engineer, Course Developer and Instructor of ELI 4110: The Ethical Engineer, Laurie teaches professional engineering practice, law, ethics, and workplace equity. Committed to creating authentic learning environments, she uses case studies and interactive discussions to engage students and deepen understanding. Laurie also developed and teaches ELI 9501: Engineering in Canada, a graduate course focused on workplace readiness through experiential learning. In this course, students gain leadership skills, career marketing strategies, and practical experience through employer engagement, interview simulations, and a capstone presentation, preparing them to pursue engineering careers in the Canadian job market with confidence.

Kevin McGuire

BSc(Eng), MEng, P.Eng., PMP

Kevin teaches ELI 9200, Engineering Planning and Project Management, a graduate course consisting of the most widely accepted project management practices in the workforce today. In addition to his role in the Thompson Centre, Kevin has annual appointments in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as the Department of Computer Science.

Natalie Mathieson

BA, MA

Natalie teaches ELI9600, Engineering Communications, a course that makes space for graduate Engineering students to build their emotional intelligence and creative and critical thinking skills. Natalie also coordinates the RBC Design Thinking Program, and supports design-driven innovation initiatives on campus. Passionate about human-centred design, the arts, and education, Natalie spent a decade working with children and youth in safe haven shelters and hospitals, creating in the theatre, and teaching in the Humanities.


Jacob Reeves

BESc, MESc, PhD, P.Eng.

Jacob primarily instructs courses in the fields of design and innovation. In addition to supporting the development of human-centered design approaches in undergraduate courses including ES1050, Foundations of Engineering Practice, and ELI3000, Managing Innovation Process, Jacob also instructs ELI9300, Design Driven Innovation, a core course in the Engineering Leadership and Innovation Graduate Diploma program. Jacob’s experiences include academic and industrial approaches to orthopaedic medical device development, as well as entrepreneurial involvement in the fitness, rehabilitation, and videography sectors.

Minha R. Ha

BSc (Hons), MA

Minha teaches ELI 4100/9400, Engineering Leadership, and ELI 4110, The Ethical Engineer. Minha draws from her reserch on sociotechnical knowledge integration to strengthen impact analysis skills development in IE 2298, Integrated Systems Engineering and Design. Minha conducts Scholarship of Teaching and Learning studies using qualitative methods, including ground theory methods. 

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Angela Mawdsley

PhD, P.Eng.

Angela is co-coordinator and an instructor of ES1050, Foundations of Engineering Practice, a core course covering the engineering design process, innovation, teamwork, and foundational engineering skills.  

Sabina Rakhimbekova

PhD

Sabina teaches ELI 4300/9110, Risk Assessment & Management, and ELI 4110, The Ethical Engineer, integrating real-world challenges into classroom. Sabina previous experiences include designing low-energy, water treatment solutions, working on the Miami Tunnel project and evaluating groundwater contaminant transport through numerical modelling. Passionate about pedagogy, she focuses on innovative teaching, curriculum design, and active learning in STEM.

 

Thompson Fellows

The Thompson Fellows will participate in numerous CELI initiatives with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as giving presentations to faculty and students, assisting with case competitions and writing a white paper addressing opportunities to collaborate with engineering and business across campus.

Richard McDonald

UofT BSc’81, former IBM Distinguished Engineer and Adjunct Professor at Western University. 

Patrick Horgan

HBA’82, former VP Operations and Innovation at IBM and Adjunct Professor at Western University.

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Alicia Gibb Seidle

Alicia Gibb Seidle has worked within the open-source hardware community since 2008. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), and co-founded the Open Hardware Summit. She formerly taught physical computing at CU Boulder in the engineering dept and UC San Diego in the art department.

Aimee van Wynsberghe

Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for the Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Bonn. She is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) and founder of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab. She is a member of the German Academy for Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Advisory Board member for the DAAD Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in AI and has served as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI. Prof. van Wynsberghe is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design and Implementation and founding editor for the international peer-reviewed journal AI & Ethics (Springer Nature). She regularly appears in the media to promote awareness of the pressing ethical issues surrounding the design and use of robotics and AI in society. 

Marcin Jakubowski

PhD

Marcin Jakubowski, a Polish-American physicist and Princeton graduate, founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 to develop the Global Village Construction Set—50 open-source industrial machines enabling closed-loop economies. A TED Senior Fellow and Time Best Inventions honoree, he advances open-source civilization building

RBC Design Thinking Program

Email: rbcdtp@uwo.ca

 

 

Administration

Email:  tceli@uwo.ca
Tel: 519-661-2111 ext. 86725