Greetings,
We rebounded from summer break via an activity-filled September with our chapter chair serving as local host and paper session moderator for the ASTR (Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability) 2015 conference in Cambridge, as well as two excellent chapter meetings. Our first September meeting was held at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Stata Center with speaker Dr. John Thomas presenting Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), a powerful new hazard analysis method designed to capture often overlooked causes of accidents like incomplete, incorrect, or missing requirements, dysfunctional component interactions, software errors, and unexpected human behavior. Our second meeting was hosted by Teradyne in North Reading, co-sponsored by the Northeast ESD Association, with Louis DeChiaro of the Naval Surface Warfare Center and Peter Hagelstein of MIT sharing the podium to cover recent advances in low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR). Both meetings were highly attended with intriguing presentation content. Our October Monthly Meeting featured Craig Hillman of DfR Solutions on the approach, methodology, tools and implementation of Physics of Failure, emphasizing the practical beneficial impact/ROI to a company’s engineering costs, time to market and warranty returns. The ongoing success of the chapter is a testament to our enthusiastic advisory committee, chapter officers, with special recognition this quarter to (a) Jeff Clark, past chair and website manager, (b) Neeta Agarwal, newsletter and social media coordinator, and last, but certainly not least, (c) Aaron DerMarderosian, Jr., past chair and chapter secretary, whose recent relocation to Florida from Massachusetts has reinforced the dedicated service he provided to the Boston Chapter for well over a decade. We are looking forward to a strong finish to 2015 with our November meeting at MACOM in Lowell, our annual Past Chairs Dinner in December featuring an IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer, and January meeting with special guest speaker Milena Krasich of Raytheon IDS.
Best Regards
Charles H Recchia, MBA, Ph.D.
Chair, IEEE Reliability Society Boston Chapter joint with Providence, RI and New Hampshire
IEEE Senior Member,
Cell (774) 209-0023
charles.recchia@ieee.org
www.linkedin.com/in/charlesrecchia/
More details on activities for this issue will soon be added. Please check back in few weeks at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/rl/newsletters.html. Thanks.
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