Andrew Jardine

Dr. Andrew K.S. Jardine is the Founding Director of the Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering (C-MORE) at the University of Toronto. C-MORE’s research is driven by close interactions with industry, in particular with C-MORE consortium members and with researchers at universities worldwide. Dr. Jardine is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at U of T. He is the co-editor (with J.D. Campbell and J. McGlynn) of Asset Management Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life Cycle Decisions, published by CRC Press in 2010. His most recent book is the 2nd edition of his earlier work, Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability: Theory and Applications (1973), published by CRC Press in 2013, co-authored with Dr. A.H.C. Tsang.

Professor Jardine studied at the Royal College of Science and Technology, Scotland, and obtained his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He was awarded his PhD in Engineering Production by the University of Birmingham, England.

He has garnered an impressive array of awards, honours and tributes, including having been the Eminent Speaker to the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia, and the first recipient of the Sergio Guy Memorial Award from the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the maintenance profession. He was Honorary Visiting Professor, Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden, for 2007 – 2009. In 2008, he received the Award for Best Paper; presented in the category of Academic Developments and sponsored by the Salvetti Foundation, at the bi-annual conference of the European Federation of National Maintenance Societies in Brussels. In 2013, Dr. Jardine received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) and was elected a Fellow of both the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2016, he received a Distinguished Educator Award from the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society (IEOM) at their Detroit conference. In 2019, Dr. Jardine was elected a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is listed in Who’s Who in Canada.

Besides writing, researching and teaching, Dr. Jardine has carried out innumerable consulting assignments with organizations around the world, including mines, government agencies, power and transit companies, and scores of others.

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