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IEEE Reliability Society http://www.ieee.org/society/rs Vol. 48, No. 2, April 2002 (ISSN 1059-8642) President’s Message CONTENTS President’s Message In mid February, I attended the Organizational Units Series of meet- 1 ings covering all of the Units that are involved in the management of Editor’s Column the IEEE. As your Society President, I am a voting member of the 3 Technical Activities Board (TAB), as are all Society Chapter News and Council Presidents and the Division Directors. 3 Motions come out of various standing committees or from the TAB itself, are discussed, and are voted upon. AdCom Meeting Minutes 6 Those motions that are approved for recommendation are passed to the IEEE Board of Directors for final ap- TechOps Status Report 8 proval. The motions can include policy changes, task- ing of Headquarters, tasking of Societies and Standards News Councils, establishment of a new incentive or product 13 with resources funded, etc. Your Reliability Society is Educational Activities Update fortunate this year as we have two former Reliability 24 Society Presidents attending TAB with me. Loretta Meeting Notices Arellano is our Division VI Director and Dick Doyle is the Regional 17 Activities Board (RAB) to TAB Representative. Technical Magazine Section: If you haven’t taken the time to look into the IEEE and its organiza- tion, I encourage you to review and understand how the various organi- zational pieces fit together. The IEEE is a complex international 22 non-profit organization that operates on a global basis. The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society and is devoted to advanc- ing the theory and practice of electrical and electronics engineering and computer science. The IEEE serves engineers, scientists, and other pro- fessionals in approximately 150 countries. IEEE as an international pro- fessional organization is made up of approximately 400,000 members, spread across 10 geographic regions, organized in 298 sections, support- ing 1156 Student Branches, almost 1300 Chapters, 37 Technical Soci- eties, and 4 Technical Councils involving 31 Societies in at least 1 Council. The IEEE is a well-recognized and respected organization. The Societies are the revenue engines for IEEE and represent about 65 percent of IEEE income. The Societies publish 105 of the IEEE’s 115 different publications. Society members make up 75 percent of the subscribers, which translates to 822,800 subscribers. Societies also sponsor 90 percent of the IEEE conferences. As you can see, Societies are major participants in the IEEE, including your Society. In January on the Saturday before RAMS (the annual international Editor: Reliability and Maintainability Symposium), the first AdCom meeting Dave Franklin Associate Editor: continued on page 5 John Healy Business Manager: Bob Gauger IEEE RELIABILITY SOCIETY OFFICERS President Nominations and Awards Software Reliability Dennis Hoffman ([email protected]) K. P. LaSala ([email protected]) S. J. Keene ([email protected]) Vice President - Membership Fellows Ann Miller ([email protected] A. N. Campbell ([email protected]) T. L. Regulinski ([email protected]) Standards & Definitions Vice President - Publications Finance Y. Lord Dr. Robert J. Loomis, Jr R. A. Kowalski ([email protected]) ([email protected] T. L. Brogan ([email protected]) Historian ([email protected] Vice President - Meetings A. Plait ([email protected]) Testing & Screening John Healy ([email protected]) Academic Education H. A. Chan ([email protected]) Vice President - Technical Operations Dr. Robert J. Loomis, Jr William R. Tonti [email protected] ([email protected]) Warranty Vacant Secretary Jeff Voas ([email protected]) TECHNICAL OPERATIONS Treasurer Vice President Systems Committees R. A. Kowalski ([email protected]) William R. Tonti [email protected] (8 committees) Technology Committees Aerospace & Defense Systems STANDING COMMITTEES (12 committees) D. L. Franklin ([email protected]) Standards and Definitions CAD/CAE Automotive Systems T. Brogan Janasak ([email protected]) C. Aladekugbe ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Human Interface Technology B. Dodson ([email protected]) Y. Lord K. P. La Sala ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Consumer Electronics International Reliability F. Shenkelberg ([email protected]) Meetings Organization Joseph R Fragola ([email protected]) John Healy ([email protected]) Energy Systems Mechanical Reliability M. Lively ([email protected]) General Membership R. L. Doyle ([email protected]) A. N. Campbell ([email protected]) Industrial Systems Microelectronic Technologies H. Yajima ([email protected]) Chapters Alan Street ([email protected]) L. Arellano ([email protected]) T. A. Rost ([email protected]) Information Technology & Academic Education Committee Communications Reliability Design J. Healy ([email protected]) M. Abramo ([email protected]) M. Roush ([email protected]) Professional Development Medical Systems Reliability Methodology Vacant M. Abramo ([email protected]) C. K. Hansen ([email protected]) Constitution and Bylaws Sensor Systems System Safety K. P. La Sala ([email protected]) K. P. LaSala ([email protected]) Takehisa Kohda ([email protected]~u.ac.jp) All RS newsletter inputs should be sent to: The schedule for submittals is: Editor: Dave Franklin Newsletter Articles Due Ads Due 23309 Park Colombo, Calabasas, CA 91302 January November 8 December 8 Tel: +1 818 586 9683 April February 8 March 8 E-mail: [email protected] July May 8 June 8 Associate Editor: John Healy October August 8 September 8 [email protected] IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter (ISSN 1059-8642) is pub- Business Manager: R. Gauger lished four times a year in January, April, July and October by [email protected] the Reliability Society of the Institute of Electrical and Elec- tronic Engineers, Inc. Headquarters: 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, ADVERTISING RATES New York, NY 10016-5997. Sent at a cost of $1.00 per year to All copy that contains graphics or special fonts must be cam- each member of the Reliability Society. Printed in U.S.A. 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I Editor’s Column IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII We want to hear from you, please sub- day of tutorials on August 25. To find out example by putting a link to the confer- mit your articles, comments or question more about the conference, please log ence in your society conference activities by email if possible. onto http://ewh.ieee.org/tc/nanotech/ page. I would especially appreciate it if Thanks, nano2002/. Deadline for paper abstract you can place the conference announce- Dave Franklin submission is due by March 31. Regis- ment in your societies newsletter, maga- Editor tration information will be put on the zine, or transactions. The Call for Papers web soon. is in the website. Dear member society Presidents As a member sponsoring society of I look forward to seeing you at the of IEEE Nanotechnology Council: the Nanotechnology Council, your mem- conference. As you may know, the second IEEE bers would be interested in participating Cliff Lau conference on nanotechnology, in nanotechnology activities. I would IEEE-NANO’2002 General Chair IEEE-NANO’2002, will be held in very much appreciate it if you can publi- Nanotechnology Council Washington DC on August 26-28, with a cize this conference to your members, for President-elect IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Chapters News for, analyze, and interpret the results of Jeff Clark reliability modeling problems. Chair, Boston Chapter Walter E Willing Our March monthly meeting was held [email protected] at the Waters Corporation in Milford, Massachusetts. Waters is the world’s Jefferson D Bronfeld leading supplier of high performance liq- See Boston Chapter activities. uid chromatography instrumentation and Jeffery A Clark consumables, as well as thermal analysis The Boston Chapter opened the New and mass spectrometry products. Reli- Year in January with a monthly meeting ability Engineering Manager Richard on the “SHARPE Graphical User Inter- Cass gave a presentation on “Waters Ap- Frank D Straka face (GUI).” SHARPE, the Symbolic Hi- proach to Mechanical Reliability erarchical Automated Reliability and Testing,” which included a guided tour of Performance Evaluator, is a popular soft- their reliability lab, machine shop, and Regards, ware tool for solving complex reliability assembly area. Vincent Lalli, Chair and availability models. It was developed We will close our 2001-02 activity [email protected] by Professor Kishor Trivedi at Duke Uni- year in May with a Spring Lecture Series versity. Chapter AdCom member Joe on “Analyzing