Andrea Hemmerich
Sessional Faculty Member in the W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology at McMaster University
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Dr. Andrea Hemmerich is a Sessional Faculty Member in the W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology at McMaster University where she teaches graduate courses in Design Thinking and Human-Centred Design. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Queen’s University and continues to collaborate on investigations into the benefits of upright maternal positioning in childbirth for which she was previously awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research extends across engineering, health and wellness, and international development fields, and has included maternal health studies, orthopaedic applications, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) system design in Africa and South Asia. Andrea's priorities are to create opportunities for social change through a human-centred approach to design and innovation.
Expertise:
Human-centred design, biomedical engineering, global health and engineering
Companies
- Adjunct Assistant Professor W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology, McMaster University (2019)
- Adjunct Assistant Professor Queen's University - Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (2018)
- Co-Founder Up4 The Challenge (2016)
- Research & Design Consultant Canadian Design Network (2015 — 2018)
- Research and Design GAIA Plants (2017 — 2018)
- Postdoctoral Fellow Queen's University (2015 — 2017)
- Economically Developing Countries (EDC) Project Officer International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) (2010 — 2015)
- Research Associate, Centre for Global Engineering University of Toronto (2011 — 2013)
- Research Fellow Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences, University of Wollongong (2010 — 2011)
Education
- PhD, Biomedical Engineering University of Cape Town
- MScEng Queen's University
- BASc University of Toronto
- St. Clement's School
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