IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter     Vol. 56, No. 4. November 2010

Front page:
President's Message

From the Editor

Society News:
Reliability Society Receives IEEE Education Award

RS Engineer of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards

IEEE Technical Field Awards (TFA) Call for Nominations

IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners held in Monterey, CA

IEEE Transactions on Reliability: Special Issue on PHM
 

Chapter Activities:
Joint Boston, New Hampshire, Providence Chapter

Dallas Chapter

Teipei/Tainan Chapter
 

Technical Activities:
Annual Technology Report - Call for Contributions
 

Conference Announcements:
International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE 2010)

Workshop and Tool Session on DYnamic Aspects in DEpendability Models for Fault-Tolerant Systems (DYADEM-FTS 2011)

International Prognostic Health Management Conference (PHM 2011). Deadline for Paper Submission Extended

Safety & Reliability Workshop

Links:
Reliability Society Home

RS Newsletter Homepage

Reliability Society Engineer of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards

Dr. Bret Michael, Naval Postgraduate School and Dr. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu, City University of Hong Kong have been selected as recipients of the 2010 Reliability Engineer Award. The awards which include a plague,  a cash prize of 1500 USD and a travel allowance of 1000 USD for each of the recipients will be presented to them at the RS Awards banquet on January 22, 2011 held in Orlando, FL in connection with RAMS. Dr. Bret Michael is recognized for his achievements in applying practical formal methods for assurance of large complex distributed  systems, and Dr. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu for his contributions to Software Reliability Modeling, Measurement, and Engineering.

Also to be presented at the Awards ceremony is the Lifetime Achievement award to be presented to Henry Hartt.