Teaching
Olivier currently teaches or have taught the following courses at UdeS :
GMC140 - Acoustique et contrôle du bruit (Acoustics and noise control)
GMC720 - Acoustique fondamentale (Fundamental of acoustics)
ING320 - Éléments de la méthode expérimentale (Experimental method's fundamentals)
ING610 - Initiation à la recherche scientifique (Introduction to scientific research)
EFD901 - Construire un projet de recherche (Building up a research project)
EFD904 - Rédiger et publier un article scientifique (Writing and publishing a research paper)
EFD908 - Communication scientifique pour le grand public (Science communication for the general public)
EFD919 (see below)
Science communication teaching
With Benoît Leblanc, Olivier designed and taught the course EFD919 - Communication scientifique par la bande-dessinée at UdeS since January, 2020.
An open-access paper summarizes the lessons learned and results from this course between 2020 and 2021.
'Dessine ta science / Draw your science' was published in Dec. 2021. It is a 188-page science comics gathering works from professional comics writers, professors and students (from 4 different faculties).
The course EFD908 - Communication scientifique vers le grand-public was designed with Sophie Malavoy and given first in Fall 2021 session.
Collaborations with museums or exhibition design
Sound, only sound (touring exhibition, 2019-2024, Sherbrooke, Canada) - Comfortable (2020-2022, Valcourt, Canada) - Contribution to Acoustics and beyond (2020, Coïmbra, Portugal) - 'À l'image du son', Le Mans Sonore (2022, Le Mans, France)
Sound, only sound - This exhibition was designed with MNS2, was presented in several museums in Canada and included several partners (UdeS Mech Eng Faculty, GRPA, LAUM)
«Sound, only sound» won a Cascade award 2020 from the Canadian Association of Science Centres
'Comfortable: test your transports!' was an exhibition held at MIJAB (2020-2022), meant to show how comfort affects human senses, and how it impacts people differently.
