Frontiers in Reliability Engineers

Distinguished Research Seminar Series

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Date

12 Oct 2021
Organiser

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU
Time

09:00 - 10:30
Venue

Online via ZOOM

Speaker

Prof. E. A. Elsayed

Remarks

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Summary

The pace of the developments of new materials, advances in manufacturing processes and sensors technology have resulted in the introduction of new products with unique designs and configurations. The human health care systems and the need for closer integration of engineering into the medical filed have been greatly affected by such developments. New medical devices, human body parts replacements with “artificial” ones, their manufacturing, quality and reliability pose challenging research issues. This presentation addresses key challenges in reliability modeling, estimation, prediction and testing approaches for such products and highlights key challenges that require investigation by the reliability engineering community.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. E. A. Elsayed

Distinguished Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Rutgers University
New Jersey, USA

E. A. Elsayed is Distinguished Professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University. He is also the Director of the NSF/ Industry/ University Co-operative Research Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering. He was the Chair of ISE, Rutgers University from 1983 to 2001. His research interests are in the areas of quality and reliability engineering and Production Planning and Control. He is a co-author of Quality Engineering in Production Systems, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1989. He is also the author of Reliability Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1996. These two books received the 1990 and 1997 IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award respectively. His recent book Reliability Engineering 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2012 received the 2012 Outstanding Publications of IIE. The third edition of this book has just been released by Wiley in 2021. He has received many awards and honors and was the keynote speaker of many international conferences. Dr. Elsayed is the recipient of many awards including the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research for the academic year 2015-2016, Golomski Award for the outstanding paper, several Best Paper awards, William Mong Distinguished Lecturers Award, David F. Baker Research Award of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering for Research Contributions to the discipline, IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering) Fellow Award, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Fellow, Senior Fulbright Award and the Recipient of 2011 Thomas Alva Edison Award for US Patent 7,115,089 B2. Most recently, Dr. Elsayed was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causes from University of Agers, France in January 2018 for his achievements in the reliability engineering filed.