Biography
Interim Dean & Associate Professor
DipEng (UPEI); BSc, MSc, PhD (New Brunswick)
Dr. Peters is a mechanical engineer with a research background in fluid mechanics and hydraulics. He is currently the Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering where he is responsible for the internal operation and delivery of the Faculty’s undergraduate degree program. His research work has focussed on the aquaculture industry with applications to improve water quality and production methods through optimizing the operation and design of water recirculation technology for fish production.
Recent Publications
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Injecting sustainability into engineering design projects
- New developments in engineering education for sustainable development, 2016
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Do water temperature and flow affect sea lice development and settlement?
- Aquaculture Canada 2001: Proceedings of the Contributed Papers of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Aquaculture Association of Canada, Halifax, NS, May 6-9, 2001, 2002
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Monitoring and modelling of water quality in a finfish recirculation system
- AES News, 2002
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Do water temperature and flow affect sea lice development and settlement?
- Special-Publication-Aquaculture-Association-of-Canada, 2001
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Rough-surface gravity current flows
- Tenth International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, 2000
Research Classification
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Research Interests
- Water quality monitoring
- Engineering applications in fluid mechanics and hydraulics
- Engineering applications in the aquaculture industry
- Water recirculation technology
- Waste solids removal
- Production management
- System optimization