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

RS Taipei/Tainan Chapter Received Two Major Awards from IEEE Taipei Section:

  • 2010 Outstanding Chapter Award

  • 2010 Outstanding Membership Development Award
The Outstanding Chapter Award is bestowed upon the best chapter of the 33 chapters in Taipei Section. On the other hand, the Outstanding Membership Development Award is to recognize our contributions in two categories: the largest total number increase and the highest percentage increase in membership promotion.

Photos were taken in the 2010 IEEE Taipei Section award ceremony held at National Chiao Tung University, December 16, 2010.
From left to right: Section Chair C.T. Lin, RS Chapter Chair Shiuhpyng Shieh