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IEEE Reliability Society http://www.ieee.org/society/rs 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]) 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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The nomination package 2001 recipient of the Divisional Profes- We want to hear from you, please submit should consist of a one-half page biogra- sional Leadership Award. Bob is a Life your articles, comments or question by phy of the nominee plus up to four pages Senior Member of IEEE and is currently email if possible. Thanks, of concise descriptions of the accom- a member of the Reliability Society Ad- Dave Franklin Editor plishments. For technical contributions, ministrative Committee. He is a regis- please concisely describe why the contri- tered professional engineer, with more RS Annual 2001 Awards bution is unique. For managerial and edu- than 40 years of reliability and availabil- Criteria for the RS Annual Award, and a cational contributions, please concisely ity engineering. He provides consulting new award, the RS Lifetime Achieve- explain the obtained benefits. Please services for system reliability studies, in- ment Award were developed, and re- limit identified publications to only those cluding telecom, data centers, control viewed and approved by the Awards in which the nominee was the principal systems, HVAC and cooling systems, Committee. The RS Annual Award was sole or principal author. The accomplish- emergency power, wastewater and other presented to Dr. Norman Schneidewind, ments should be organized according to essential services. Bob received his US Navy Postgraduate School and the RS the above-described criteria. The last award at the IEEE-USA Awards Cere- Lifetime Achievement Award was pre- date that nominations may be submitted mony on April 13, 2002 at the Renais- sented to Mr. Richard Sackett, Radian, is 1 October 2002. sance Dallas-Richardson Hotel in Inc. Both Awards were presented at the Send the nominations to Richardson, Texas. RS Annual Awards Banquet held in con- Dr. Kenneth P. LaSala junction with RAMS 02 at the Westin [email protected] New Career Newsletter Towers Hotel in Seattle Washington on Begins Publication January 26, 2002 Award Received “IEEE Career Alert,” a new weekly Best regards, Tom Fagan The Board of Directors of the Institute of opt-in online newsletter, written by Electrical and Electronic Engineers, “IEEE Spectrum” editors, is available. Reliability Society USA has selected Robert H Gauger as a The publication focuses on issues such as Annual Award for 2002 professional growth opportunities, con- The IEEE Reliability Society is soliciting tinuing education, management and the nominations for its Reliability Society engineering workplace.