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Vol. 48, No. 3, July 2002 (ISSN 1059-8642) President’s Message
CONTENTS Your Society Thanks to all of our members that participated in our Society’s Survey. Your AdCom wanted to obtain your viewpoint and to learn where we President’s Message are doing the right things, where we need to make improvements, and 1 where we need to make course corrections. From early data, a large majority responded that they were mem- Editor’s Column bers of the Reliability Society “To obtain current tech- 3 nical reliability information and resources to do my job” which is exactly what your Society is trying to Chapter Activities 3 provide. The final survey results will be briefed and provided to the AdCom in July, but just too late for this AdCom Meeting Minutes Newsletter issue. The results will be covered in the 5 next Newsletter, so watch for it. Again, many thanks to those members that participated. Educational Activites Your Society has a solid financial base, but the con- 8 tinuing corporate tax from Headquarters does strain the annual budget. Headquarters has updated many of their computer Standards News 10 systems and has provided members many new services, all of which re- quires money. As I have stated in past Newsletters, Headquarters com- Call for Papers: 2003 International Reliability mitted to these changes under good stock market conditions, but is Physics Symposium having to pay in this tough market period. The Societies are a major 14 revenue source for the IEEE, so that is where Headquarters looks in times of need. Your AdCom has been brainstorming ways to increase Meeting Notices revenues as well as provide additional technical benefit to you, our 16 members. YourAdCom will continue the brainstorming sessions at our
Technical Magazine Section July AdCom meeting that started during our April AdCom meeting. 21 Hopefully, we will be able to put a plan of action in place to initiate a few new things and incrementally start rolling them out. Your Technical Operations Committees Your Society has almost twenty technical committees that are the tech- nical arm of your Society and are focused on specific reliability areas. These are the generators of the technical resources that you need and want. However, Technical Operations and its committees need your HELP! Many of the existing committees need members and a few need chairs. There are several areas that are not covered at all, so we would like to establish some new committees. But, this requires volunteers – people like you. This is an easy way to participate and to give some- thing back to your Society and profession. Most work is done by e-mail. It is a great way to get involved, make contacts, make contribu- tions, and accomplish something that has impact. Share your knowl- Editor: edge and experience with others, especially the people new to our Dave Franklin profession. Share so everyone doesn’t have to re-invent the same wheel Associate Editor: John Healy continued on page 4 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] ([email protected]) Historian T. L. Brogan ([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]) Human Interface Technology ([email protected]) Y. Lord K. P. La Sala ([email protected]) B. Dodson ([email protected]) ([email protected]) International Reliability Consumer Electronics Meetings Organization Joseph R Fragola ([email protected]) F. Shenkelberg ([email protected]) John Healy ([email protected]) Mechanical Reliability Energy Systems General Membership R. L. Doyle ([email protected]) M. Lively ([email protected]) A. N. Campbell ([email protected]) Microelectronic Technologies Industrial Systems Chapters Alan Street ([email protected]) H. Yajima ([email protected]) L. Arellano ([email protected]) T. A. Rost ([email protected]) Information Technology & Academic Education Committee Reliability Design Communications M. Abramo ([email protected]) M. Roush ([email protected]) J. Healy ([email protected]) Professional Development Reliability Methodology Medical Systems M. Abramo ([email protected]) C. K. Hansen ([email protected]) Vacant Constitution and Bylaws System Safety Sensor Systems K. P. LaSala ([email protected]) Takehisa Kohda ([email protected]~u.ac.jp) K. P. La Sala ([email protected])
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Chapters News we watched parts of the Reliability Soci- We ended our activity year in May ety’s training video on “Accelerated with a well-attended Spring Lecture Se- Baltimore Stress Testing (AST).” The video includes ries on “Analyzing Statistical Data.” Joe Walter E Willing presentations and a panel session by re- Dzekevich and Gene Bridgers put to- Binghamton nowned AST experts Anthony Chan, Paul gether this 3-evening course based on the Jefferson D Bronfeld Parker, and others. The Chapter found the book Basic Statistics, Tools for Continu- presentation on equipment for AST to be ous Improvement by Kiemele, Schmidt, Boston Chapter most useful. We thank Loretta Arellano and Berdine. Topics covered included The Boston Chapter held a regular and the Reliability Society’s AdCom for data plots; organizing data for statistical monthly meeting in April, during which lending us the video for this event. programs; descriptive statistics; P, the
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“voice of the data”; T, paired, grouped, Chicago Ottowa and non-parametric tests; two-way cross Frank D Straka Cecelia Jankowski tabulation; linear regression and Managing Director ANOVA for DOE; and residual analysis. Cleveland Chapter Regional Activities In October, we plan to hold a follow-up Regards, Fall Lecture Series on “Design of Experi- Vincent Lalli, Chair Wahab Almuhtadi ments (DOE).” [email protected] We also held our annual AdCom Offi- Philadelphia Chapter Fulvio E. Oliveto, Chairperson cers Election in May, but only for a Cincinnati Chapter 6-month term starting in July to align us Philadelphia Section with the Boston Section’s reporting year. Dallas Chapter (856) 914-7298 All of the AdCom officers decided to run Donald Butler San Diego Chapter for re-election in their same positions. We Chapter Chairman: will hold our next election in November IEEE Dallas Section Chair Michael V. Frank for the 2003 calendar year. [email protected] [email protected] Finally, I would like to thank the AdCom members below for their dedi- Denver/Pikes Peak R.L. Doyle, Secretary cated support of the Boston Chapter over Samuel J Keene IN REPLY the past year (and many previous years): (858) 459-6504 Vice Chair & Secretary – Jim Fahy, Sun Japan Chapter REFER TO RLD:00801 [email protected] Microsystems Shuichi Fukuda, Chair Treasurer – Don Markuson, ArRay Inc. Chair, Japan Chapter Santa Clara Valley Arrangements – Warren Snow, Quality [email protected] Vacant Systems Support Lecture Series – Joe Dzekevich, Los Angeles Chapter Singapore Chapter Raytheon Systems & Gene Bridgers, Scott Tamashiro (ED/Reliability/CPMT Joint Chapter) Sycamore Networks [email protected] Dr. M.K. Radhakrishnan Chapter Chair, IEEE Rel/CPMT/ED Publicity – Brian McQuillan, General Twin Cities Chapter, Singapore Dynamics e-mail : [email protected] For more information on Boston Minnesota Chapter Chapter activities, please visit our web South Plains James McLinn site at http://www.channel1.com/users/ Michael E Parten Chapter Chair ieee/home.html. [email protected] Switzerland Jeff Clark, Avici Systems Mauro Ciappa Boston Chapter Chair Mohawk Valley Switzerland Chapter Chair [email protected] Vacant Toronto Central New England North-Central-Sothern Walter W Zessner See Boston Chapter activities. Italy Washington DC,No VA Jeffery A Clark Fausto Fantini Kenneth P La Sala ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ tinue to function. Your Society is very fortu- area, get involved in one of the Technical nate that volunteers do continue to come Operations committees, help develop IEEE continued from page 1 forward, get involved, and contribute – but reliability standards and best practices, or over and over again. You have the talents not enough as we need. There is much that run for election as an AdCom member. Get involved and exercise your technical and / and the expertise – please get involved. isn’t getting done, especially in our Techni- or administrative skills. If you are not sure Contact your VP Tech Ops, Bill Tonti, cal Operation committees as I stated above, how to get involved, contact your local ([email protected]) and these committee outputs are of direct chapter officers or your national officers. benefit to our members — that is you and I. Society Participation They will be more than happy to answer Get involved. Participate. There are your questions and to guide you. As a continuing ending message, the Reli- plenty of ways and areas to match your in- Have a great year, ability Society is your Society. Your Society terests. You can become involved in your Dennis Hoffman depends on volunteer services, so it can con- local chapter, establish a chapter in your [email protected]
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Virtual Community”. A web based work page with advertising revenue, corporate Ann Campbell, VP Membership bench for Reliability professionals and sponsorships and a chat/message feature. others with reliability questions. TDMR will feature a “Golden Re- Bill Holton, made a presentation on viewer” list for reviewer appreciation. the IEEE Awards process. It has been re- Also need editor input for TDMR. They April 6, 2002 invigorated to engage the societies more. have an issue with publicity, and are look- Dallas Texas Dr. Kin-Leong Pey presented an over- ing for Special Edition topics and editors. view of the Singapore Chapter. A RS and In attendance: Robert Loomis, John They have been approached by CPMT to EDS and CPMT joint chapter. Activities Healy, Scott Abrams, Dennis Hoffman, set up their own journal but have discov- consisted of a whole host of short techni- Christain Hansen, Ann Campbell, Ted ered TDMR and are interested in inte- cal programs (about one per month) and Freeman, Bob Loomis, Bill Tonti, Bob grating into TDMR. There may be other two technical conferences per year. The Gauger, Dick Doyle, Ken LaSala, Dick societies that are interested. chapter has a membership in excess of Kowalski, Sang Kim, Scott Abram, 300 and appears to be very active. They Sang-uk Kim (guest) Tech Ops have a large number of activities planned January minutes were accepted as Dennis filled in for Bill Tonti – Tech Ops and completed for this year. modified by President Dennis Hoffman. and Seminars may be our most fertile The IEEE headquarters is taxing RS and John Healy, Conference area. We could do intro stuff on the web our sister societies resulting in a –394K and Seminar Discussion and pay for view for more sophisticated deficit for 2001 and a projected deficit of Virtually all the conferences we are spon- stuff. Tech Ops committees should be re- -196K for 2002. YE reserves are brought soring are loosing a little bit of money. oriented toward more commercial enter- down to 770K. We are gushing and looking Should we sponsor new conferences, stop prises. One of our problems has been for ways to reduce expenses and increase sponsoring others, have more control on getting the committees to do anything. revenue. Sounds like the Boston Tea Party. conferences? John believes that we Tech Ops is moving to much toward the To wit, there was discussion of reducing should aggressively sponsor confer- semiconductor area. Give Tech Ops spe- our meetings to 3 per year, or perhaps going ences. It is a good potential source of cific goals rather than just “go do good”. to videoconference. funds, despite the recent downturn. For example, set up 10-chart viewgraph Upcoming meetings: July 20, Ottawa, presentation on your area that could be on Should we continue to sponsor confer- possible seminar presentation to chapter the web. How about Tech Ops doing stuff ences? Points from members include: We on Friday July 19; and October 5 in the for RAMS/IRPS chair of sessions? Have can possibly convert technical sponsor- Baltimore Washington area. Projected to a teaser the on web free with pay for view ship to financial sponsorship. We should go to Europe next Fall in conjunction behind. Can information be made view- consider getting more involved in the fis- with the ESREF meeting. able but not printable until you pay for it cal management with our existing confer- Conferences are struggling. But the (on web)? Need to develop a concept of ences. We should consider getting into ISSRE made a small profit. IRPS cut operations, eg on our website have sam- the seminar business. We should consider back so as to break even at 340 attendees. ple free information that leads to pay for 1 and 2 day seminars in both broad and They had close to 400. Outstanding. view. We need to lay out a plan, which we narrowly focused material. We need to There was a concern if sufficient atten- do not have right now. Travelocity, has on form a subgroup to look into this Sam, dees would stay at the hotel to avoid high their website has a place for others com- Scott, Christian, Joe F, We could do a de- costs for the meeting facilities. ments. We could have something similar mographic analysis of our membership. to that for reviews for our material. We Membership List of technical sponsorships to de- need to do the strategic thinking and not RS membership was down 100 to 2732 at termine if we want to financially sponsor worry right now about the tactical issues. the end of 01. We also are getting a lot of currently sponsor functions improve- We should establish a strategic commit- life members (no revenue), which de- ments and set up a committee on short tee to develop the concept. grades our financial position. We have re- courses. Scott, Sam Joe and Christian. ceived 400 responses for the membership Tony Oats Presented a report on Tech Ops will develop a strategic survey so far. Survey cost about 14K. TDMR Manuscripts 41 submitted, 26 ac- Committee with Tonti, Ken and Dick Question was raised to survey the mem- cepted 6 rejected 9 in work. Averaging 6 Doyle to develop an approach and plan- bers who leave to determine why they left. papers per issue. 54 days from submis- ning. Focus would be web stuff but not Suggestion was these x members would sion to first decision, 107 days to publica- limited to it. Report at next meeting. probably not respond. Society Logo selec- tion. They encourage papers to be tion process is in full throttle. Brochures submitted, rather than telling them no, Meetings will finalize when the Logo is selected. they will help them develop better papers. Develop seminar concept Christian, Videos have RS royalties to date of They appear to have a very good process Kowalski, Scott, Abrams, Fragola. Eval- 102K vs our cost of 148K. There is an ini- and stress the front-end preparation. Free uate both near and long term opportuni- tiative now with the Educational Activ- to all IEEE members, $535 to nonmem- ties. Will conference call. Will have ities of the IEEE on the “Reliability bers. TDMR will have a separate web initial plan by 1 May.
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Publications 8:10-8:40 Awards and Medals Report Committee Increase page count, transition to new sys- Minutes Approval - J. Voas By Laws & Constitution Change Status Review of open action items tem, increase advertising, talk to Dave 1:10 - 1:30 Barber on Corporate Sponsors and Ad- 8:40-9:10 Senior Past President’s Report - L. visers for TREL, newsletter and Website. President’s Remarks - D. Hoffman Arellano Ask Marsha to look at TSM finances to see June TAB Meeting Report - D. Doyle / L. Overview of IEEE how much of the APP money is held back. Arellano Div VI Director Report Have our publications online and charge a Reliability Marketing Action Plan Status premium for print version. Primarily to - A. Street 1:30 - 2:00 save recurring printing costs and mailing New Business 9:10-9:40 TAB Product Safety Proposed Society Membership Treasurers Report - R. Kowalski Committee - Jack Burns, Axcelis Tech- Who are non-member subscribers to FY02 YTD Results nologies, Inc. T-Rel? Increase membership rather than FY03 Budget Status fees? Survey may cause us to not have 2:00 - 2:20 TSM. Christian displayed a large number 9:40-10:00 Break Old Business of logo candidates. He will be sending the Proposed Joint AIAA - RS effort to revise 10:00-10:20 more popular for review and wants feed- ANSI/AIAA R-013 , Recommended Meetings - J. Healy back on the logo. Practice for Software Reliability Status – Sponsored Conferences Report N. Schneidewind Meeting adjourned AdCom Meeting location planning 2:20 - 3:00 Actions Items: 1) Resurrect the action list, 10:20-10:50 Break Voas/Keene, 2) Update Committee Contact Publications - R. Loomis information, Loomis, 3) Determine status Web Site Status - R. Loomis 3:00 - 4:45 for Sunset: Reliability design, warranty, T-Rel Performance Status - W. Kuo Revenue Development Brainstorming – 3 medical systems, Tonti, 4) Define Reliable Newsletter Status - D. Franklin Breakout Sessions design lead function, Pat Hetherington, Advertising Status for T-Rel & Newslet- Meetings / Conferences - J. Healy Dennis, 5) Find out who will be balloting ter - B. Gauger Pubs / Training / Video - R. Loomis IEEE std 1413.1, Tonti, 6)Review LOGOs Video Tutorial Marketing Plan Status - S. Tech Ops / Training Devel / Tech Mate- by a PR firm, Abrams, 7) Print a new mem- Keene rial - W. Tonti ber application form in TR, Loomis, 8) De- T-DMR Status - A. Campbell / W. Tonti Restructuring Study – L. Arellano cide how to develop survey for exmembers, T-SM Status - M. Abramo Campbell/Freeman, 9) Is an Adcom mem- 4:45 - 5:30 ber is ineligible to receive a RS award?, La 10:50-11:40 Breakout Session Results / Plans Membership – A. Campbell Sala, 10) Should Award be open to any reli- 4:45 - 5:00 ability professional; not just RS society Membership Report/Brochure – A. Meetings / Conferences - J. Healy member, La Sala, 11) Should RS maintain Campbell current AdCom terms, maintain current of- RS Logo – C. Hansen 5:00 - 5:15 ficer terms, reconcile bylaws to conform to Chapters Report - L. Arellano Pubs / Training Del / Video - R. Loomis the constitution on officer elections La PACE Report - M. Abramo Sala, 12) Should we enter into an agree- Survey Results - Association Laboratories 5:15 - 5:30 ment to have others organizations market Tech Ops / Training Devel / Tech Mate- 11:40 - 12:00 RS tapes, Keene rial - W. Tonti Technical Operations - B. Tonti Motions were passed by AdCom 1) Tech Ops Report / Procedure Status – B. 5:30 Adjourn Adding a cash stipend to the Lifetime Tonti Achievement Award of $1K. 2) RS mem- 6:30 AdCom Banquet/ Chapter Awards Standards Status / 1413.1 Status - Y.Lord bership is not a requirement for the / T. Brogan awards. 3) AdCom Supports La Sala revi- Council Reports: Sens (LaSala), ITS sion of Awards criteria. (Kaufman), Nano (Campbell) IEEE Voting Machine Standard Team April 2002- July 2002 Status - J. Healy July 20, 2002 William R. Tonti, VP 12:00 - 12:50 Lunch Ottawa, Canada TechOps 8:00-8:10 12:50 - 1:10 Committee Overview Welcome/Call to Order/Agree to Agenda Junior Past President’s Report - K. LaSala Eleven Active Committees (Ten & New 6 - D. Hoffman Nominations Committee Report Sigma)
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Six Semi-Active: Intl Reliability, Micro- Standards & Definitions the revision as a new joint project with the electronics, Energy, IT & Communications, Accomplishments - IEEE RS. This means that, as far as the Automotive, Aerospace & Defense. Four in- Yvonne Lord & Tom AIAA is concerned, this project is autho- active committeees: Reliability, Reliability rized for dual sponsorship with IEEE, Design, Warranty, and Medical Devices. Brogan and a working group can be formed. Continued support to Reliability Stan- No Quarterly Reports 6 of 11 Active From the IEEE side, the PAR is to be dards Board, SCC-37, for IEEE 1413.1 Committees, CAD/CAE, Consumer provided by Yvonne Lord to the IEEE Working Group Project, “Selection and Electronics, Industrial Systems, Mechan- New Standards Committee (NESCOM). Use of Reliability Prediction Methodol- ical Reliability, Sensors, TC We understand from the NESCOM Ad- ogies”. Draft document entered balloting ministrator that IEEE standards officers Quarterly Reports from 5 of 11 Com- phase by IEEE standards department mittees: Software Reliability, 6 Sigma and lawyers will have to examine the issue Reliability, Std’s & Definitions, System Standards & Definitions Plans of collaboration with AIAA. The response Safety, Human Interface Technology, Continue to support and monitor the Prog- on the AIAA teleconference to a joint pro- Software Reliability ress of the IEEE 1413.1 Working Group ject was supportive and enthusiastic. 2. The committee also has been asked Dr. Sam Keene completed a Software Project, “Selection and Use of Reliability to help revise and reaffirm (or even con- Reliability Chapter for McGraw Hill’s Prediction Methodologies”. Address doc- sider the obsolescent of) the IEEE 1044 Hdbk for EE (Drs. Keene & Allen ument questions and issues identified dur- STD on Classification of SW Anomalies. Nikora). Dr. Schneidewind Recognized as ing balloting. Support short course 2001 “Reliability Engineer of the Year” through IEEE standards department 3. We plan to execute these tasks on the new Reliability Virtual Community.This Software Reliability System Safety will be a test of the VC plus, hopefully en- Accomplishments , Dr. Accomplishments – abling us to accomplish our work sooner. Sam Keene Dr.Takehisa Kohda 4. Professors Ann Miller and Norman Collected information for RS Annual Schneidewind gave wonderful tutorials A CD is available for a Fault Tolerant Technical Report. Drs. Kohda & Koichi on Software Reliability in conjunction Software Tutorial, Dr. Keene Chaired Inoue presented a paper at 2002 RAMS, with the Ottawa Adcom meeting in July SW Reliability Paper Session at 2002 “Probability Evaluation of System-Failure to an audience of 70 attendees. RAMS. Drs. Joanne Bechta Duggan & Occurrence Based on Minimal Cut-Sets” 5. We have several offerings of SW Schneidewind Presented Softwarte Reli- System Safety Plans: Continue to col- Reliability tutorials. ability Tutorial’s at 2002 RAMS lect information for RS Annual Technical Six Sigma technical committee Software Reliability Plans Report. Open a System Safety Web Site. Develop a short courses (“Probability This committee submits a regular publi- Dr. Sam Keene and Dr. Schneidewind Evaluation of System Failure Occur- cation to each news letter. Sam Keene has Lead the Update of standards develop- rence” & Possibly “Methodology for a Six Sigma tutorial planned for RAMS ment and present tutorials. They respond Safety Design of Complex Systems”) 2003. We also have a tutorial offering that to University Workshop Requests and has been prepared, presented and avail- Support ISSRE Conf & IEEE Educational Human Interface able for inclusion in the Reliability Tuto- Activities and will develop a Short Course Technology rial offerings. Based on Dr. Schneidewind 2001 & 2002 Accomplishments RAMS Tutorials. They will continue to System Safety Technical Committee Dr. Ken La Sala Collected information Chair: Dr. Takehisa Kohda, Kyoto Uni- identify opportunities to promote Safe, for RS Annual Technical Report Trustworthy, Robust Software Initiatives. versity Human Interface Technology Plans Kyoto University, Japan 6 Sigma Reliability Continue to collect Information for RS E-mail: [email protected] Accomplishments Annual Technical Report. Manage & Up- Members: date HIT Web Site and develop a short Sam Keene, a certified Six Sigma Master Mr. Dave Franklin course on design for Human Performance Black Belt established the committee in Rocketdyne Division, Boeing, USA January 2002. Tech Ops Detailed Reports E-mail: [email protected] 6 Sigma Reliability Plans SW Reliability Dr. Toshiyuki Inagaki Solicit Committee Members, address and 1. Norm Schneidewind was invited by University of Tsukuba, Japan respond to Six Sigma questions and con- Jim French to participate in an AIAA E-mail: [email protected] cerns. Submit proposed Six Sigma reli- Standards Executive Council Tele- Dr. Koichi Inoue ability impact tutorial to 2003 RAMS. conference Meeting to report on the pro- Kyoto University, Japan Submit quarterly articles to RS Newslet- posed revision of ANSI\AIAA R-013 E-mail: [email protected] ter. Develop a short course on 6 Sigma Recommended Practice for Software Re- Reliability Tools and Process liability. The motion passed to approve Dr. Yoshinobu Sato
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Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, risk-informed way. But, we still need puters Services Ltd.; and Dalibor F. Japan more discussions. Vrsalovic, President, Intel On-line Services E-mail: [email protected] Inc. There were also 14 Industry Presenta- tions from US Airforce, NIST, Motorola, Dr. Koichi Suyama IBM Research, Cisco Systems, Korea Ad- Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, vanced Institute, Hitachi Ltd, and Sony Japan Corporation, etc. In addition, 4 panel ses- Email: [email protected] sions, 21 Fast Abstracts, and 13 Student One of the committee activities is to Poster papers were presented in collect information for the RS Annual ISSRE’2001. Most of these contents ap- Technical Report. Several members will peared in an ISSRE’2001 Supplementary present their works on system safety at Proceedings. In conclusion, ISSRE’2001 PSAM6, International Conference on ISSRE’2001 Highlights program included 100 presentations of var- Probabilistic Safety Assessment and ISSRE’2001 was sponsored by both ious disciplines and topics surrounding the Management, 23-28 June, 2002, Caribe IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Reli- subject of software reliability engineering. Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ability Society. It began with a day of Tu- About 130 attendees attended USA. An abstract of the paper on the torials, followed by three days of the core ISSRE’2001. This marked a high level of identification of system accident se- conference. The core conference in- attendance (close to previous ISSRE at- quences entitled “Derivation of Accident cluded the Industry Day to host presenta- tendance levels) comparing with other Sequence Conditions for Complex Sys- tions from Industry, followed by 2 days of IEEE sponsored conferences after the tems using Global System Behavior multiple tracks by refereed papers, panels 911 event. Model” by Takehisa Kohda and Koichi and fast abstracts. On the Tutorials Day Inoue was submitted for presentation at the first Workshop on Software Assess- Suvery summary ... the Annual Reliability and Maintainabil- ment (WOSA) was also be held. The lure 1. Positive feedback on meals, organiza- ity Symposium, January 27-30, 2003, of Hong Kong and the great work of tion, registration arrangement, keynote Tampa Waterside Marriot, Tampa, FL. ISSRE’2001 program committee to en- speakers, etc. courage submissions resulted in a sub- 2. 3/4 of the attendees who filled out stantial increase in submitted papers over the survey were first-time newcomers to Current State of Activity last year. We had close to 100 submis- ISSRE, indicating a significant increase Plan for 2002 sions for refereed regular papers, from of new bloods to the Software Reliability Activity and Current Status which we accepted 38 papers, giving us community as it was for the first time held an acceptance rate slightly lower than in Asia. Annual Technical Report input, Being 40%, which was among the lowest accep- Michael R. Lyu Gathered tance rates in the past ISSREs. Tel: +(852) 2609 8429 Opening a Web site, Still Under Con- In addition to refereed regular papers, Computer Science & Engineering Dept struction ISSRE’2001 highlights four excellent key- Fax: +(852) 2603 5024 Short Courses note speakers. They are: Terrence Heng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong I hope that our committee will be able Senior VP, Motorola; Steve McConnell, Email: [email protected] to develop a short tutorial course on the CEO, Construx Software; Kalyana Rao, Shatin, HONG KONG system safety design procedure in a Executive VP and CTO, Satyam Com- http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~lyu ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Educational Activities Update
Minnesota Teenager Internet stream into a relational database. cational materials in any engineering field Wins $10,000 IEEE The techniques he designed and built can and discipline to The Digital Library Net- Presidents’ Scholarship be used for applications such as rerouting work for Engineering and Technology emergency or hazardous materials vehicles (DLNET), a project funded by NSF and On May 16, 18-year-old James J. Jefferson due to traffic problems, improving high- hosted at Virginia Tech. Educational ma- from Winona, Minnesota USA won the way design, or reducing the cost of deploy- terials (called learning objects) include IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship presented at ing cellular telephone infrastructure. MS Word files of course modules, the Intel International Science and Engi- Additional information at PowerPoint presentations, applets, video neering Fair held this year in Louisville, http://www.ieee.org/eab/newswire84.htm. KY. For his winning project, “Automatic clips, graphs, and illustrations. IEEE is packet reporting system (APRS): building Contribute To Dlnet willing to create the metadata record of a large scale geospatial database,” he col- Assist with your colleagues’ professional your learning objects and submit it to lected and cataloged the entire APRS development. Contribute your online edu- DLNET. Or contribute directly by follow-
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”In the future, the GPS systems in cars friend helped him locate space for a series new IEEE Virtual Museum launched at and now even on cell phones could serve of computers he linked together called a http://www.ieee.org/museum. Designed the same function." Beowulf cluster to work the data. The rest for educators, pre-college students, and A team of judges from the IEEE of the work he does in about three quarters the general public, the virtual museum Lexington and Louisville Sections, led of his home basement space. debuted with two exhibits containing au- by co-leaders Rachel Wilson and Steve He enjoys hiking and biking, and, in dio and video clips, and interactive fea- Bryant, sorted through the more than June, will employ his system so that spec- tures: Socket to Me! How Electricity 1200 projects entered in the Intel ISEF tators can track the progress of entrants in Came to Be and The Beat Goes On: How from 39 countries to find those that best a Winona bicycle race. Sounds are Recorded and Played. Three “demonstrated an understanding of elec- In the fall, he will attend Iowa State more exhibits are in production and are trical engineering, information technol- University at Ames, Iowa, and major in scheduled for release by third quarter ogy, or other IEEE fields of interest.” Computer Sciences. He plans to continue 2002. These will explore the different ap- For the purposes of the project, he with his project, investigating the use of plications of microwaves, the works of concentrated on the Los Angeles, CA, neural networks to detect road anomalies Thomas Edison, and contributions freeway system. The data is reported in a such as traffic jams. Mr. Jefferson also re- women have made to electrical and infor- variety of ways, which means that Mr. ceived prizes from IEEE Computer Soci- mation technologies. Jefferson had to write a program that ety, Intel Foundation, and the Society of The IEEE Virtual Museum explores translated the data into a common format. Exploration Geophysicists. the global social impact of electrical and He developed the software to analyze the information sciences and technologies position data, and he wrote another pro- and demonstrates the relevance of engi- gram to search digital maps for the dis- Piscataway, NJ — Thomas Edison didn’t neering and engineers to society. It is sup- tance to the nearest road, in order to offer invent the light bulb, so why does every- ported by the IEEE Foundation, the IEEE options to people stuck in traffic. He has one think he did? What was the first com- Life Members, and the Trustees of the written approximately 10,000 lines of puter? How did the patterns in a Utah IEEE History Center. computer source code. More than cornfield lead to the development of TV? Lynn Murison 600,000 data points are collected a day. What is the “X” in an X-ray? Why are Outreach Administrator Working completely on his own, Mr. Alvin and the Chipmunks part of a mu- IEEE Educational Activities Jefferson did his original research without seum about technology? The answers to ph: 1.732.562.6526 benefit of mentor or funding support. A these questions and more are found in the www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/
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Call For Volunteers - IEEE IEEE 1073 Recognized by (DOJ) are conducting full day hearings on P473 Working Group U.S. National Committee the intellectual property aspects of stan- dards setting. For more on this story, go to Revision of IEEE Recommended Practice IEEE 1073 was included in the formal recommendations made by the U.S. Na- http://memcentral.standards. for an Electromagnetic Site Survey (10 kHz tional Committee on Vital Health Statis- ieee.org/sa/member/sanews/archives/ to 10 GHz) IEEE STD 473 describes a sys- tics to the U.S. Department of Health and news6-May-02.html#ftc tematic approach for performing an Elec- Human Services. For more on this story, Latest IEEE-SA Press tromagnetic (EM) site survey, commencing go to Releases Posted from the preparation of the planning of the http://memcentral.standards. test until completion, data analysis, and World’s First Motor Vehicle ‘Black Box’ ieee.org/sa/member/sanews/archives/ Standard Underway at IEEE documentation of the measurement results. news6-May-02.html#1073 http://standards.ieee.org/ The Standard outlines procedures and in- announcements/mvblackbox.html formation regarding the methods for con- Intellectual Property ducting EM site surveys particularly for Rights Policies in IEEE 802® Committee EMR Bio-effects and equipment effects Standards Setting Forms New Radio applications. For more on this story, go to Organizations Scrutinized Regulatory Advisory http://memcentral.standards. by U.S. FTC and U.S. DOJ Group ieee.org/sa/member/sanews/archives/ The U.S. Federal Trade Commission http://standards.ieee.org/ news6-May-02.html#473 (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice announcements/80218app.html
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IEEE Approves members-at-large for the IEEE-SA auto-negotiation registers 6 and 8. To Amendment to IEEE Board of Governors (IEEE-SA view the interpretations, go to 1394? Standard for BOG).For more on this story, go to http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ ieee/interp/802.3-1998/index.html High-Speed Serial Buses http://memcentral.stan- dards.ieee.org/sa/member/sanews/ar- To assist you in keeping abreast of Allowing Gigabit chives/news6-May-02.html#nom IEEE Standards Activities, we have com- Signaling piled a list of new, revised, and withdrawn http://standards.ieee.org/ World Standards Day standards and standards projects, listed announcements/1394bapp.html Paper Competition by sponsoring IEEE Society, that have been recently approved by the IEEE-SA Work Begins on The Standards Engineering Society (SES), in conjunction with the World Standards Board. Amendment to IEEE 802® Standards Day (WSD) Planning Com- These projects are listed in IEEE-SA Standard to Assign Type mittee, has announced the theme, awards, Member Central, the members only area Values for Prototypes and rules for participation in the 2002 for IEEE-SA members, at http://standards.ieee.org/ WSD Paper Competition. For more on http://memcentral.standards.ieee.org/ announcements/p802a.html this story, go to sa/member/sanews/bdapp-cont.html http://memcentral.standards. To participate in the working groups IEEE Begins Standards ieee.org/sa/member/sanews/archives/ of particular projects, please inform the for All-Dielectric Self- news6-May-02.html#world technical contact of that project who is Supporting and Helically- listed on the Project Authorization Re- New Certified Software quest (PAR) form within the PDF files of Applied Fiber Optic Development the connecting web pages. If you prefer, Cables Used on Power Professional (CSDP) the contact information is also at Grids http://standards.ieee.org/db/status/ and http://standards.ieee.org/ Examination enter the PAR number, for instance, enter announcements/pscstds.html After three years of development, the “555,” or enter a key word such as IEEE Computer Society will administer “metadata.” IEEE Starts Work on its new Certified Software Development If you would like to know the balloting Three Health Informatics Professional (CSDP) examination. The status of any of the projects, please view Standards CSDP was designed to elevate educa- http://standards.ieee.org/db/balloting/ tional standards and recognize those http://standards.ieee.org/ bal-02.html whodemonstrate knowledge essential to announcements/hisstds.html Finally, if you wish to be included in the practice of software engineering. For the voting of certain projects, join the bal- IEEE Approves IEEE more on this story, go to loting pools early and at no charge to re- 802.15.1 Standard for http://memcentral.standards. ceive an invitation when a project is ready ieee.org/sa/member/sanews/archives/ to ballot. Complete the online form, “Re- Wireless Personal Area news6-May-02.html#csdp quest Form To Join an IEEE Balloting Networks Pool,” at http://standards.ieee.org/ Adapted from The Bluetooth® Specifi- Interpretation Requests db/balloting/ballotform.html cation Responded to on the WEB As always, please contact me with http://standards.ieee.org/ IEEE Standards Interpretation for IEEE your questions and comments. announcements/802151app.html Std 802.3®, 1998 Edition, IEEE Stan- Ronni Rubenstein dard for Carrier Sense Multiple Access Sr. Membership Administrator Nominations For 2004 with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) IEEE Standards Association IEEE-SA Positions Access Method and Physical Layer Spec- 445 Hoes Lane The IEEE-SA Nominations and Ap- ifications The interpretations are based Piscataway NJ 08855 US pointments Committee is accepting nom- on the 2000 Edition and include topics on PH: +1 732 562 6381 inations for the positions of 2004 acknowledge bit, auto-negotiation link FX: +1 732 562 1571 IEEE-SA President-Elect and 2004 partner ability and next page register, and EM: [email protected]
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January 13-14, 2003, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China March 17-20, 2003 January 15-17, 2003, From the heart of the “Telecom Corridor”, DoubleTree Hotel, the Dallas Section IEEE brings together Shenzhen, China San Jose, CA, USA international experts, educators and col- Preliminary Notice leagues in a two-day conference of work- http://www.isqed.org You are cordially invited to an Interna- shops and technical sessions to address In cooperation with IEEE Computer So- tional IEEE Conference on the Business emerging telecommunication technolo- ciety, IEEE Electron Device Society, of Electronic Product Reliability and Lia- gies. Conference is scheduled for Septem- ACM/SigDA, and Fabless Semiconduc- bility. The conference will be held in ber 23 & 24, 2002 in Richardson, Texas, a tor Association (FSA). Conference pro- Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China (trans- suburb of Dallas. ceedings are published by IEEE portation to Shenzhen will be provided). For information about the technical Computer Society. The purpose of the conference is to pres- program, contact Dr. Jerry Grimm, Four days, Monday through Thursday, ent the latest advancements in electronic Nokia, [email protected] four parallel tracks, over 100 technical papers, eight keynote speakers, two pan- product reliability and liability, and to els, poster sessions, student forum ses- discuss critical international issues as sions, fringe meetings. they affect the global technical and busi- ness community. The goal is to help elec- ■ Design For Manufacturability (DFM) tronics companies design and ■ Design For Testability (DFT) manufacture cost effective reliable prod- ■ Device, Interconnect & Circuit Level Modeling ucts, and encourage efficient sup- ply-chain management. ■ & Analysis (DEV) We currently have 15 industry experts http://fpl.org ■ EDA Tools, Interoperability & Impli- cations (EDA) who will be presenting papers on reliabil- ity and liability. Papers from other indus- September 2-4, 2002 ■ Low Power Design & Test (LPD) try participants as well as researchers from La Grande-Motte ■ Methodologies & Metrics for Design (Montpellier) – France Quality (MDQ) academic and government organizations on the following topics will be presented: FPL2002 has been very successful re- ■ Package - Design Interactions & ■ garding paper submission. FPL is again Co-design (PDI) Design for reliability ■ Advances in derating very successful concerning the attendee ■ Physical Design, Methodologies & ■ registration! However, we may be head- Tools (PDM) Screening and burn-in ■ Accelerated testing ing toward a shortage of hotel rooms, dis- ■ Design & Abstraction Methods for ■ tributed on a first come - first served SoCs, IP Blocks & Libraries (SIL) Advances in reliability prediction in- cluding the new IEEE Standards basis. So, please register as soon as possi- ■ Effects of Technology on IC Design, ■ ble. We cannot guarantee room availabil- Performance, Reliability, & Yield (TRD) Risks associated with using telecom- ity at La Grande Motte. Paper Submission Deadline Septem- munications reliability standards ■ Also for the ‘spouse program’ there is ber 15, 2002; Acceptance Notifications Uprating ■ an upper limit. So, please, register ASAP. November 1, 2002; Final Camera-Ready New failure mechanisms in electronic You may contact the registration of- paper December 15, 2002. products ■ fice also by email: [email protected] or For more details see http://www.isqed. Root-cause analysis [email protected] org.; All inquiries should be addressed to Important Dates Anyway, if you have not received any isqed@isq! ed.org Correspondence and Inquiries Ms. Angie confirmation of your registration, please Wong Secretariat of International IEEE also contact this email address, just to Conference EPA Centre, Department of make sure Electronic Engineering, City University CALL FOR PAPERS of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, Tel: (852) 2788 7379, Fax: (852) 2788 7579, Email: wywong@ ee.cityu.edu.
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■ ■ ■ Technical Magazine Section Six Sigma: An Opportunity for Reliability Engineers Dr. Samuel Keene, tistical and graphical tools to enhance 2. Capability optimization Certified Six Sigma both product and process reliability. n Demonstrating proper process mea- Master Black Belt There is abundant opportunity for reli- surement capability (Gage R&R) Six Sigma is the fastest growing business ability engineers as Six Sigma companies n Assuring design robustness management system in industry today, move away from intuitive decision mak- n Harvesting excess margin credited with saving billions of dollars ing to fact-based decision-making. Six n Optimizing design specification and over the past decade. This has direct ap- Sigma can lead in problem solving, tak- design tolerancing ing advantage of realizing opportunities, plication to Reliability Engineers. First 3. Product Optimization and pro-actively developing optimized because the Six Sigma sets manage- n 7 Basic Quality tools products. The tools the author has found ment’s expectations for developing better n Setting testing constraints to have the most leverage are: products, harvesting opportunities and n Design of Experiment principles to being better able to resolve problems. 1. The defining 5 key Six Sigma stages: assure test effectiveness. This Six Sigma legacy increases manage- “Define, Measure, Analyze, Optimize ment’s receptivity and opens doors for re- and Control” along with the associated 4. Analyzing contingencies and estab- liability engineers and analysts. Lastly, terminology. The Six Sigma language lishing process controls Six Sigma provides the reliability engi- transcends disciplines, natural lan- Six Sigma should be an integral capa- neer a systematic process and a kit of sta- guage barriers, and geographical areas. bility for every reliability engineer.
Chip Reliability William R. Tonti, IBM tives. This course presents an overview of the IBM resident study program. Dr. Microelectronics of important chip failure mechanisms and Tonti is the 2002 International Reliability methods to reduce their impact on chip The major attributes of a semiconductor Physics Symposium General Chairman, reliability. chip are reliability, cost, speed, and and was the 2000 Integrated Reliability power. While in DRAM the focus is on The course is organized in four ses- Workshop General Chairman. He has density/cost and low cell leakage, atten- sions. The first session describes impor- authored numerous contributed and in- tion in logic design focuses on speed. tant silicon devices, technology trends, vited papers, and holds over 63 U.S. pat- Low-power is particularly important in and basic reliability concepts. Session 2 ents. Dr. Tonti is a member of tau beta pi, portable electronics and where chip cool- covers electrostatic discharge (ESD), pro- eta kappa nu, a senior member of IEEE, ing is limited. In all products, however, tection against ESD, and electro/stress mi- an advisory board member of the IEEE the main concern of chip manufacturers gration in multilevel metallization. Single Transactions on Device and Material Re- and customers is on reliability. Through- event upsets and dielectric reliability is- liability, a recipient of the IEEE 3’rd mil- out the design and development stages of sues are discussed in session 3. Finally, lennium medal, and an ABET a product, trade-offs are sought between session 4 discusses hot-carrier reliability, engineering curriculum evaluator. Dr. intricately conflicting requirements. For latch-up and burn-in. Tonti is a currently a member of the Reli- example, there is a trade-off between per- ability Society ADCOM., and serves as formance and reliability. The MOSFET William R. Tonti their VP of Technical Operations. hot-carrier reliability is improved by re- William R. Tonti received the B.S.E.E. ducing the field near the drain boundary. with honor (1978) from Northeastern This can be done by decreasing the drain University. He then joined IBM in Essex © Copyright International Business Machines Cor- voltage, reducing the channel length, or Junction, Vermont, where he presently is poration 1995, 2001 implementing lightly doped drain (and worjing on the development of PowerPC All Rights Reserved source) extensions. All these guards, microprocessor reliability strategies. Pre- Printed in the United States of America 08-2001 however, degrade the MOSFET perfor- viously Dr. Tonti was a program manager All information contained in this document is sub- mance. Similarly, reducing the field in in the wired communication space, and ject to change without notice. THE INFORMA- the gate oxide improves its reliability, but has also contributed to the Giga-bit verti- TION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS degrades the MOSFET current carrying cal cell DRAM technology development. PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS. In no event capability. A thorough understanding of He received an M.S.E.E. (1982) from the will IBM be liable for damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the information con- device failure mechanisms allows opti- University of Vermont,an M.B.A. (1983) tained in this document. mizing device design and manufacturing from St. Michael’s College, and a Ph.D. IBM Microelectronics Division, processes to simultaneously meet circuit in Electrical Engineering (1988) from the 1580 Route 52, Bldg. 504, performance goals and reliability objec- University of Vermontunder the auspices Hopewell Junction, NY 12533-6351
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