2024. Seminar. Debugging Collaboration: Investigating Conflict During Hackathon Design Projects, Carnegie Mellon University.
2024. Workshop Chair. Designing Design Research: Lessons from Design Researchers, Canadian Design Workshop 3.
2024. Workshop Chair. Transparency and Collaboration: A Workshop on Open Access Design Team Data. Design Computing and Cognition'24.
2021-24. Panellist. Interdisciplinary Team Science. The Ohio State University.
2023-24. Invited Participant. Hack the Hackathon vols. 3 and 4.
2020. Presenter. A Presentation of Research on Project Management and Learnings on Remote Teaching. The Collaboration and Teamwork Community of Practice, University of Waterloo.
Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2025. Rate the Hack! Using a Creativity Rubric for Standardized Hackathon Project Evaluation. International Conference on Engineering Design, Poster.
Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2025. Designing Through Dialogue: The Role of Peer Question‐Asking in Hackathons. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference, Poster.
Rennick, C., Flus, M., Ferguson, S., McSorely, G., Hurst, A., Robinson, M. 2025. Advancing the integration of the bookends in engineering design education: K‐12 design education and industry perspectives on design. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference, Collaboratorium.
Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2024. Debugging Collaboration: Investigating Conflict during Hackathon Design Projects. Canadian Design Workshop III, Presentation.
Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2024. Unleashing Collaborative Potential: A Case Study of Peer Learning at Hackathons. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference, Lightning Talk.
Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2024. Debugging Team Dynamics: Describing Conflict Patterns in a Hackathon Team. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, Poster. *Awarded first place in the Applied Mechanics and Design division.
Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2023. The Two Sides of Design: Applications of Dual‑Process Theory. ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Lightning Talk.
Flus, M., Tayyara, O., Khanolkar, P., Vrolijk, A., Da Silva, C., Amon, C., Olechowski, A. 2023. Deep Co‑design: Streamlining the Electro‑Thermal Design Process for Future Automation. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, Poster.
Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2022. A Dual‑Process Model of Design. Canadian Design Workshop II.
Ferguson, S., Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2022. A Machine Learning Tool to Classify Design Phases. Canadian Design Workshop II.
Alexandrovsky, M., Jian, P., Flus, M., Olechowski, A. 2022. Understadning Design Creativity. Canadian Design Workshop II.
Rennick, C., Hurst, A., Lambert, S., Flus, M., Ha, M.R., McSorley, G., Cao, Y. 2021. Sustaining a network of design education practice and research in Canada. Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference, Workshop.
Rennick, C., Hurst, A., Lambert, S., Flus, M. 2021, Overview of the Canadian Design Workshop (CDW1): from vision to evaluation. Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshop XII.