Opened in 1908 as a board-governed public institution, the University of Alberta has grown to be one of Canada’s foremost research-intensive universities, with external research funding in 2004-05 of more than $415 million. The University of Alberta main campus and Campus Saint-Jean are located in Edmonton, the vibrant, cosmopolitan capital of the province of Alberta. In a metropolitan area with close to one million people, Edmonton showed the fastest economic growth of Canada’s major cities in 2004 when its economy increased by an impressive 6.2 per cent.

This presentation will provide a brief introduction of the University of Alberta, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Reliability Research Laboratory is housed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. An overview of the research personnel, on-going research projects, laboratory facilities, and sample research results generated by the research lab will be presented.