Educator, Inventor &
Competence Consultant

Dr. Morgan Rauscher is an educator, inventor, and technical leader with a PhD in telehaptic robotics from Concordia University’s Milieux Institute and a Master of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University, where he was valedictorian. His practice spans robotics, mechatronics, embedded electronics, physical computing, interaction design, and industrial prototyping, grounded in roughly 30 years of hands-on experience building real systems.

✎ Morgan has designed and delivered undergraduate curriculum and lectured internationally. His teaching is practical and studio-based: building real things as the path to understanding complex technical ideas.

✺ Morgan brings approximately 17 years of technology consulting experience with government and industry, including Fortune 500 clients, along with leadership as a Co-Founder and CTO in agricultural automation and packaging systems. He is known for making complex concepts understandable and connecting engineering, design, art, entrepreneurship, and business. His interactive artworks have been exhibited internationally, including Nuit Blanche Paris and the New York Hall of Science; he has spoken at conferences including TEI, Technarte, and World Maker Faire New York; and his work has appeared in Popular Science, Make, Hamilton Arts & Letters, academic journals, and other publications.

✓ Competence Consulting

Competence Consulting helps people and organizations reduce fear and dependency by building practical capability. It combines teaching, systems thinking, technology, and hands-on problem-solving so clients leave better able to understand, build, repair, decide, and help others. Competence creates agency; agency creates freedom.

Mission: Reduce fear through competence. I do not seek followers; I help people become more capable, more independent, and better able to help the next person.

Building on established work in education, human agency, and competence development, Morgan’s contribution is a practical framework connecting competence, agency, dignity, and reduced fear – and teaching others how to apply it across technology, learning, work, and community life.

Inside the Work: Labs, Lectures & Field Notes