The Manufacturing Analysis Laboratory operates under the direction of Professor Peter Wild . The research in the lab relates to the development, through experimental and computational analyses, of manufacturing processes. The research projects in the lab are, in general, multidisciplinary. Graduate students are exposed a wide variety of research tasks varying from the development of custom instrumentation to the design of custom mechanical equipment to non-linear finite element analyses.
Most research projects have industrial sponsorship.
On most projects, we attempt to conduct experimental work in conjunction with industrial partners. The laboratory also has strong links to the laboratories of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada. For the development of Centrifugal Membrane and Density Separation Processes, the laboratory has open access to the centrifugal test bed at the University of Victoria. Professor Wild has a number of graduate students working in this lab.