Tonya Wolfe, PhD PEng

Senior Metallurgical Engineer
InnoTech Alberta

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Dr Tonya Wolfe is a senior metallurgical engineer at InnoTech Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.  Her areas of expertise include materials design, wear resistant materials, welding and process modeling.  She attended Queen’s University for her Bachelor of Applied Science in Metallurgical Engineering, and after a few years as a steelmaking engineer, decided to pursue her graduate degrees at the University of Alberta.  Her MSc investigated the use of biomaterials for prosthetic applications and her PhD studied composite overlays deposited by plasma transferred arc welding.  Currently she is leading InnoTech Alberta’s initiative in additive manufacturing, which spans areas including the engineering design of components for AM, manufacturing process equipment design, materials development and the regulatory acceptance of components made using new processes.