Dr. Peter R. Frise

P.Eng., FCAE
Professor of Automotive Engineering
AUTO21 Program Leader & CEO
The University of Windsor

Dr. Peter Frise holds degrees in mechanical engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston and Carleton University in Ottawa. He began his industrial career as an oil well wireline data logging engineer working for Schlumberger Wireline Services in Nigeria and he then moved to Husky Injection Molding Systems in Bolton, Ontario as an R&D engineer and later as a design group leader. In 1985 he joined Carleton University and beginning in 1988, he taught mechanical design there until moving to Windsor where has was instrumental in founding Canada’s first program in Automotive Engineering in 1998.

Dr. Frise works with a number of automotive companies in his present capacity as the Program Leader and CEO of AUTO21, a federal Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) on the Automobile of the 21st Century.

He serves on a number of boards including Professional Engineers Ontario and the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, the Initiative for Automotive Innovation, the Canadian Council for Automotive Human Resources and on several sub-committees of the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council.

Dr. Frise was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2000 in recognition of his professional contributions and in May 2001 he was elected Windsor and Essex County “Engineer of the Year” by the local Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario.

He lives with his wife and three daughters in Windsor, Ontario.