Dr Peter Wardle received his Ph.D and B.Eng(Hons) degree from The University of Nottingham and Staffordshire University respectively. He is a Chartered Engineer and was elected Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) in 2015. He is currently a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He is responsible for delivering modules in Solid Mechanics, Mechanical Systems and FEA/Stress Analysis at both Undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In 2017 Dr Wardle was appointed Visiting Associate Professor at Yulin University, Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Peter has a number of research interests, some of which are:

•          Microwave Processing of Materials.

•          Mechanics of Materials.

•          Failure Mechanisms in materials and Manufacturing processes.

•          Finite Element Analysis.

•          Coal Desulphurisation.

•          Coal Petrography.

•          Clean Coal Technologies.

• Chartered Engineer – CEng
• Elected Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers - (FIMechE)
• Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy - (SFHEA)

• P.J.Ogrodnik, C.I.Moorcroft, P.Wardle “The effects of laser marking and symbol etching on the fatigue life of medical devices” Journal of Medical Engineering, Volume 2013, Article ID 570354
• E.Binner, E.Lester, S.Kingman, C.Dodds, J.Robinson, P.Wardle, T.Wu “A review of microwave coal processing”. Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, 48 (1), 2014, pp35-60