Distinguished Lecture Series : Reliability Predictions and Challenges

E. A. Elsayed is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University. He served as Chairman of the Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, from 1983 to 2001. He is also the Director of the NSF/ Industry/ University Co-operative Research Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of quality and reliability engineering and Production Planning and Control. He is a co-author of Quality Engineering in Production Systems, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1989. He is also the author of Reliability Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1996. These two books received the 1990 and 1997 IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award respectively. His recent book Reliability Engineering 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2012 received the 2013 Outstanding IIE Publication.