Society Structure

International Advisory Board

(In alphabetical order)

Professor Kapur, Kailash (Kal) C. is a professor and Director of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He was a professor and the Director of the school of Industrial Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma during 1989-1992 and a professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan during 1970-1989. He has worked with General Motors Research Laboratories as a senior research engineer. He has also worked with Ford Motor Company as a visiting scholar and the U.S. Army, Tank-Automotive Command as a reliability engineer. He has served on the Board of Directors of American Supplier Institute, Inc., Dearborn, Michigan. Professor Kapur received a Bachelor's degree(1963) in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from Delhi University; M. Tech. degree(1965) in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology; M.S. degree(1967) in Operation Research; and Ph.D. degree(1969) in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has co-authored the book Reliability in Engineering Design , John Wiley & Sons. He has written chapters on reliability and quality engineering for several handbooks such as Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Design. He has published over forty papers in technical, research and professional journals. He is a member of ORSA, TIMS, IIE, ASQC, and ASEE. He is on the editorial board of journals such as Quality Engineering and Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineering. He is a registered professional engineer. He has received funding from OCAST (Oklahoma Center for Applied Science and Technology), General Motors, Ford, US Army Tank-Automotive Command and NSF.

Professor Park, Dong Ho is a full professor at Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea, since 1993. He received his B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA, in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He was formerly an associate professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, until 1995 and was a director of Statistics Division, Department of Mathematics and Statistics during 1992-1993. He is a founder of the Korean Reliability Society in 1999 and assumed the presidency of that society from 1999 to 2004. Now, he is an honorary president of The Korean Reliability Society. He has published over 70 research papers in the areas of reliability theory, life testing, software reliability, and system maintenance policy in a wide variety of international journals. He received the medal of honor from the Korean Government in 2009 for his outstanding contributions in science development in Korea. He is an associate editor for Asian-Pacific Journal of Operational Research and is on editorial board in several international journals. He is a regular member of ASA, ASQ, IEICE, ISI and IEEE.

Professor Pecht, Michael is currently a visiting Professor in Electronic Engineering at City University in Hong Kong. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a Professional Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, an ASME Fellow and an IMAPS Fellow. He was awarded the highest reliability honor, the IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He has previously received the European Micro and Nano-Reliability Award for outstanding contributions to reliability research, 3M Research Award for electronics packaging, and the IMAPS William D. Ashman Memorial Achievement Award for his contributions in electronics reliability analysis. He served as chief editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability for eight years and on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum. He is chief editor for Microelectronics Reliability and an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technology. He is the founder of CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) at the University of Maryland, which is funded by over 150 of the world’s leading electronics companies at more than US$6M/year. He is also a Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering and a Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland. He has written more than twenty books on electronic products development, use and supply chain management and over 400 technical articles. He consults for 22 major international electronics companies, providing expertise in strategic planning, design, test, prognostics, IP and risk assessment of electronic products and systems.

Professor Tan, Andy CC is a Professor at the School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He received his BSc(Eng) and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Westminster, London. His research interests include noise and vibration condition monitoring and sensors for active vibration control. He applied adaptive signal processing and the blind deconvolution algorithms to enhance the desired signals corrupted by noise for the detection of incipient faults. These algorithms together acoustic emission sensors are currently being used in low speed machinery condition monitoring. He is expanding his research into diesel engine diagnostics/prognostics. He is a pioneer of artificial heart pump project in Queensland, Australia and a professor of mechanical engineering at the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering of the Queensland University of Technology. His academic interests include dynamics of mechanical systems, noise and vibrations and mechanism design. In engineering education, he receives international recognition for pioneering the first joint degrees program.

Dr. Uckun, Serdar is founder and President of the PHM Society, a non-profit professional organization. He holds 11 U.S. patents and has graduate degrees in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, and completed his post-doctoral studies in Computer Science at Stanford University. He manages PARC's embedded reasoning team. His technical interests include diagnosis, prognostics, and optimization. Before joining PARC, Serdar was at NASA Ames where he led the largest organization in the U.S. Government focusing on prognostics and health management (PHM) research. He has also served as Director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), Director of Advanced Technology at Blue Pumpkin Software, and Assistant Director of Rockwell Science Center - Palo Alto Laboratory. He served as Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal and the General Chair of the 2008 International Conference on PHM.

Professor Xie, Min is a full professor at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He received his MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and then entered their PhD program. But he ended up with a PhD in Quality Technology from Linkoping University in 1987 under the supervision of Prof Bo Bergman, the first Chair Professor in Quality in Sweden, and he became a 10th generation descendant of Carl Friedrich GAUSS. He have been active in research and teaching in the area of quality, reliability and applied statistics; and have published about 200 journal papers and 8 books. He am also involved in many international conferences and other professional activities. He served as Program Chair of 2004 IEEE Int Engineering Management Conference that was attended by 350 participants from 40 countries and edited the 3-volume conference proceedings.

Professor Zio, Enrico is a Director of the Graduate School of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, professor of Computational Methods for Safety and Risk Analysis and invited lecturer and committee member at various Master and PhD Programs in Italy and abroad. He received his BSc (Eng) in nuclear engineering from UCLA and PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT. He was Vice-Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association, ESRA (2000-2005), Editor-in-Chief of the International journal Risk, Decision and Policy (2003-2004). He is currently Chairman of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Reliability Society started from 2001. He is also member of the editorial board of a number of international scientific journals in the reliability, risk, safety and nuclear energy fields, Scientific Chairman of three International Conferences and referee of more than 10 international journals.

Professor Zuo, Mingjian received the Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering in 1982 from Shandong Institute of Technology, China, and the Master of Science degree in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree in 1989 both in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. He is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include system reliability analysis, maintenance modeling and optimization, signal processing, and fault diagnosis. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Regional Editor for North and South American region for International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management, and Editorial Board Member of IIE Transactions, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, International Journal of Quality, Reliability and Safety Engineering, and International Journal of Performability Engineering. He also served as Department Editor of IIE Transactions (2005-2008). He is Senior Member of IEEE and IIE and Founding Fellow of International Society of Engineering Asset Management.

Professor Wenbin Wang is professor in operational research and applied statistics and director of the Centre for Operational Research and Applied Statistics at the University of Salford, UK. Prior to joining Salford he has lectured at Harbin Institute of Technology where he still holds a overseas professorship and the part time associate dean of the school of management. Professor Wang received his PhD in Operational Research and Applied Statistics in the University of Salford in 1992 after just a year study, MSc in Operations Management in 1984, Xian, and BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1981 from Harbin University of Science and Technology. Prof. Wang’s main research areas are in maintenance modeling, particularly with applications to inspection and condition based maintenance, supply chain modeling, health care and international manufacturing strategy. He is a fellow of Royal Statistics Society, charted mathematician, executive member of International Foundation for Research in Maintenance, and holds many guest professorships at various universities in China. He published over 100 papers, co-authored 6 books.

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