IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter Vol. 57, No. 1. February 2011

Table of Content

Front page:
President's Message

From the Editor

Messages from VPs:

VP Publications Report from Dr. Robert Loomis

Society News:

2011 EXCOM and ADCOM Members

Prestigious Engineer of the Year Award

Best Chapter Awards

AdCom Meeting

Nominations for IEEE Medals and Recognitions

RS seeks Administrative Committee Candidates for 2012/2013/2014 Term

Reliability Society Past AdCom Members Obituaries:
Former RS President Monshaw Dies At 84

Obituary for Ann Miller


Feature Articles:
Reliability through the Ages

Reliability Overview of Air Traffic Reliability in the National Air Space

 

 

Regular Articles:

Field Based Reliability Calculations (MTBF) – Surmounting Practical Challenges. An outside the box approach.

Applying basic and familiar reliability theory to estimating and improving the avialablity of software-intensive systems

Fault Tolerance in Web Services


PHM Articles:

Detection of Multiple Failure-Modes in Electronics using Self-Organized Mapping

 


Book Review :

Reliability Engineering Book Review


Chapter Activities:
Cleveland Chapter

Taipei/Tainan Chapter

The Denver Chapter awarded a certificate to Hobbs Engineering

Announcements:
Solicitation for Society Technical Committees

UK&RI Workshop on Reliability and Safety

WCEAM-IMS 2001



Links:
Reliability Society Home


RS Newsletter Homepage

2011 EXCOM and ADCOM members

ELECTED OFFICERS

President Dennis Hoffman
VP,Technical Operations Lon Chase
VP,Publications Robert Loomis
VP,Meetings Alfred Stevens
VP,Membership Marsha Abramo
 
Secretary Sam Keene
Treasurer Christian Hansen

 

JR PAST PRESIDENT & DIVISION VI DIRECTOR

Jeffrey Voas

 

ELECTED MEMBERS-at-Large (with vote)

TERM EXPIRES 2011
(DEC 31)
Scott B. Abrams
Pradeep Lall
Phil LaPlante
Alfred Stevens
Scott Tamashiro
Jia Zhang
TERM EXPIRES 2012
(DEC 31)
Marsha Abramo
Loretta Arellano
Lon Chase
Christian Hansen
Dennis Hoffman
James B Michael
TERM EXPIRES 2013
(DEC 31)
Faye Bilger
Joe Childs
Lou Gullo
Bob Loomis
Todd Weatherford
W. Eric Wong

Standing Committees and Activities

StandardsThomas Brogan
Chapters Coordinator Loretta Arellano
Larry Akre
Professional Development Marsha Abramo
Constitution and Bylaws Dennis Hoffman
Fellows Phil LaPlante
Finance Richard Kowalski
Academic Education/Scholarship Dr. Bob Loomis
Meetings Organization Alfred Stevens
Membership Development Marsha Abramo
Historian Dr. Bob Loomis
Transactions Editor-in-Chief Way Kuo
Newsletter Editor-in-Chief Shiuhpyng Shieh
Video Tutorials Christian Hansen
Nominations and Awards Dennis Hoffman