【Date & Time】 10:30am-11:30am, Nov. 2, 2010 (Tuesday) .

【Place】 North 510 (meeting room), Shunde Building.

【Speaker】 Prof. Kailash C. Kapur, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Washington.

【Host】Prof. Zhizhong Li

【Topic】 New Directions and Trends in Reliability & Maintainability Design and Engineering.

【Abstract】There is tremendous interest these days to design and develop all types of complex systems, including infrastructure, communication, logistics and distribution systems that are not only reliable and maintainable but are also robust, resilient and sustainable. The field of reliability sometimes has been narrow in its scope and we have not integrated the methodology with recent emphasis on broader measures of system performance, their design and evaluation. We need new measures for system performance which are realistic and useful. In this presentation, motivation for these new measures and their trends and applications is provided based on systems oriented, integrated and distributed, customer-centered multi-State system reliability and maintainability methodology and extensions. Some models using Markov and other general stochastic processes are presented. Examples and applications to infrastructure and network applications as well as health systems are developed and presented.

 【About the Speaker】Dr. Kailash [Kal] C. Kapur is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington; He was the Director of Industrial Engineering at the University of Washington from January 1993 to September 1999. He was a Professor and the Director of the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma from 1989-1992. Dr. Kapur received the Ph. D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. He has co-authored the book Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1977 and over dozen chapters in various engineering handbooks. He has published over 100 papers. He received the Allan Chop Technical Advancement Award from the Reliability Division and the Craig Award from the Automotive Division of American Society for Quality. He is a Fellow of American Society for Quality, a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a registered professional engineer.