Dr. PETER R. FRISE, P.Eng., FCAE, F.E.C.

AUTO21 Scientific Director & CEO

 

Professor of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering

and Executive Director of Automotive Research and Studies

c/o           The University of Windsor

                401 Sunset Ave.

                Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4                 

                                                                                                                                               

 

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.  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 he held the Chrysler Canada/NSERC/University of Windsor Senior Industrial Research Chair in Mechanical Design and was instrumental in founding Canada’s first university program in Automotive Engineering in 1998.

 

Dr. Frise works with a number of automotive companies in his present capacity as the Scientific Director and CEO of the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence, Canada’s national automotive R&D program. AUTO21 brings together over 200 researchers and more than 500 graduate students from 45 institutions in partnership with 220 industry and public sector companies and organizations to engage in applied automotive R&D. Through 2010, AUTO21 and its partners will have completed more than $90M worth of automotive research.

 

Dr. Frise participates on numerous boards, including the National Research Council of Canada, the Defence Science Advisory Board of Canada, the Yves Landry Foundation and the Stronach Centre for Innovation.  He is active on several sub-committees of the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council (CAPC).