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2015 ¨ The paper “Life Distribution Analysis Based on Lévy Subordinators for Degradation with Random Jumps” by Yin Shu, Qianmei Feng & David Coit has been accepted by Naval Research Logistics. Congratulations, Yin! ¨ The paper “Condition-Based Maintenance for Repairable Deteriorating Systems subject to a Generalized Mixed Shock Model” by Koosha Rafiee, Qianmei Feng & David Coit has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Reliability. ¨ Yin’s paper “Laplace Expressions of Reliability Characteristics for Levy Subordinators-based Degradation” was the Runner-Up in the QCRE Best Student Paper Competition in the ISERC. Congratulations, Yin! ¨ Yin Shu received NSF Student Travel Grant for attending the ISERC 2015. Congratulations! ¨ Yin Shu successfully presented his dissertation proposal “Levy, Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes, and Markov Additive Processes in Reliability Analysis” on May 11. Congratulations, Yin!
2014 ¨ Dr. Feng has been awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Recognition of Extraordinary Achievements by the Office of the Provost and Cullen College of Engineering at UH. ¨ The paper “Modeling Zoned Shock Effects on Stochastic Degradation in Dependent Failure Processes” by Lei Jiang, Qianmei Feng & David Coit has been accepted by IIE Transactions. Congratulations, Lei! ¨ The paper “Reliability Research on Micro and Nano Electro-mechanical Systems: A Review” by Ali Arab & Qianmei Feng has been accepted by International Journal of Advance Manufacturing Technology. Congratulations, Ali! ¨ Koosha Rafiee successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Reliability and Condition-based Maintenance Analysis of Deteriorating Systems subject to Generalized Mixed Shock Model” on June 6, 2014. Congratulations, Dr. Rafiee! ¨ Dr. David Coit joined our group for a one-day research meeting on June 6. This is the fourth trip Dr. Coit made to UH as part of the NSF collaborative research. Welcome Dave! ¨ IEEE Transactions on Reliability’s 3rd most downloaded article in April 2014: “Reliability Analysis for Multi-Component Systems subject to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes” by Sanling Song, David Coit, Qianmei Feng and Hao Peng. ¨ The IIE Transactions paper “Reliability Modeling for Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes with Changing Degradation Rate” by Koosha Rafiee, Qianmei Feng & David Coit was featured in the IE magazine. (The 4th paper featured in the magazine) ¨ Lei Jiang successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Reliability and Maintenance Modeling of Complex Systems under Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes” on April 23, 2014. Congratulations, Dr. Jiang! ¨ IIE Transactions’ most popular article published in 2013: "n Subpopulations Experiencing Stochastic Degradation: Reliability Modeling, Burn-in, and Preventive Replacement Optimization" by Yisha Xiang, David W. Coit, and Qianmei Feng.
2013 ¨ Elias Keedy successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Stent Reliability and Maintenance: Integrating Probabilistic and Physics-of-Failure Models” on December 6, 2013. Congratulations, Dr. Keedy! Best wishes to your continuous endeavor at Bayer! ¨ Three presentations were delivered by our group at the INFORMS Annual Conference 2013 in Minneapolis, MN: ¨ “Reliability Analysis for Dependent Competing Risk Processes with Degradation Rate Transition” by Koosha Rafiee, Q. Feng and D. Coit ¨ “Reliability Analysis for Failure Processes under Degradation-Dependent Hard Failure Threshold” by Koosha Rafiee, Q. Feng and D. Coit ¨ “Condition-based Maintenance for Multiple Stents with Stochastic Dependent Failure Processes” by Q. Feng, Koosha Rafiee, Elias Keedy, Ali Arab, and D. Coit ¨ Koosha Rafiee was nominated to attend the Future Academician Colloquium at the INFORMS conference. Congratulations! ¨ We have successfully completed the accelerated fatigue crack growth test of stent materials at Medical Device Testing Service (MDT), Inc. We appreciate the assistance and professionalism from the CEO, Mr. Kent Vilendrer, and everyone else at MDT. We gratefully acknowledge the sponsor of this project: the Advance Research Program (ARP) of Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. ¨ The paper “Reliability analysis and customized preventive maintenance policies for stents with stochastic dependent competing risk processes” by Elias Keedy and Qianmei Feng has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Congratulations, Elias! ¨ Our group successfully hosted a UH/Rutgers NSF Research Workshop on Degradation-based Reliability and Maintenance on July 18. Welcome Profs. Dave Coit and Yisha Xiang! ¨ One of five IIE Transactions most-cited articles 2010-2012: Reliability and Maintenance Modeling for Systems Subject to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes, by Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng, and David W. Coit. ¨ Dr. Feng presented a seminar at the University of Washington on Thursday, May 23. ¨ Dr. Feng attended the annual conference of Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), Vancouver, Canada, May 27-29, 2013 ¨ The paper “Reliability Modeling for Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes with Changing Degradation Rate” by Koosha Rafiee, Qianmei Feng & David Coit has been accepted by IIE Transactions. ¨ Koosha Rafiee successfully presented his dissertation proposal “Reliability and Condition-based Maintenance Analysis of Deteriorating Systems Subject to Generalized Mixed Shock Model” on May 7. Congratulations, Koosha! ¨ Koosha received NSF Student Travel Grant for attending ISERC 2013. He has also been nominated to attend the Doctoral Colloquiums while attending the conference. Congratulations! ¨ Koosha’s paper “Reliability Assessment of Dependent Competing Risks with Mixed Shock Model” has received an honorable mention for the QCRE Best Student Paper Competition in ISERC. Congratulations, Koosha! ¨ The paper “n-Subpopulations experiencing Stochastic Degradation: Reliability Modeling, Burn-in and Preventive Maintenance Optimization” by Yisha Xiang, David Coit, & Qianmei Feng was published in IIE Transactions. ¨ Two papers are submitted to the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18-22, 2013. ¨ “Reliability Assessment of Dependent Competing Risks with Mixed Shock Model” by Koosha Rafiee, Qianmei Feng & David Coit. ¨ “Reliability Analysis for Implanted Multi-Stent Systems with Stochastic Dependent Competing Risk Processes” by Ali Arab, Elias Keedy, Qianmei Feng, Sanling Song, and David Coit.
2012 ¨ Dr. Dave Coit was invited to visit our group and attend Lei’s proposal presentation on Dec. 6. Welcome, Dave! ¨ Lei Jiang successfully presented her dissertation proposal “Reliability and Maintenance Modeling of Complex Systems under Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes” on Dec. 6. Congratulations, Lei! ¨ The paper “Reliability and Maintenance Modeling for Dependent Competing Failure Processes with Shifting Failure Thresholds.” by Lei Jiang, Qianmei Feng & David Coit, was published in IEEE Transactions on Reliability. ¨ Robert Conachey successfully defended his thesis “Degradation-based Reliability Estimate for Marine Electric Motor Pump Equipment” on Nov. 20. Congratulations, Bob! ¨ Dr. Kaibo Wang was invited to give a seminar titled “The Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Wafer Variation” on Oct.19. Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor from IE dept. in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. For more information about him, please visit here. ¨ Lei presented her paper at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ. ¨ Dr. Hao Peng received “Marie Curie Career Integration Grant” of 100,000 euros as a single PI. Congratulations, Hao! ¨ Dr. Feng received an additional $20,000 in research assistant support from the Provost’s Office for 2012-2013. This funding is to grant additional resources to faculty who are currently supporting graduate students on external research contracts and grants. ¨ Dr. Feng attended NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, Boston, MA,
2011 ¨ Dr. Feng has been selected as the only recipient of the 2010-2011 Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award for the Cullen College of Engineering, and this award is one of the highest awards given in the college. ¨ Dr. Feng received the Outstanding Teacher Award in the Cullen College of Engineering for 2010-2011. ¨ Dr. Feng received an $20,000 in research assistant support from the Provost’s Office for 2011-2012. This funding is to grant additional resources to faculty who are currently supporting graduate students on external research contracts and grants. ¨ Dr. Hao Peng started her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands in June 2011. Congratulations, Hao! ¨ Dr. Parviz Kheirkhah started his appointment as an Industrial Engineer in the Office of performance Improvement at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in January 2011. Congratulations, Parviz! ¨ The paper “Reliability Deployment in Distributed Manufacturing Chains via Closed-Loop Six-Sigma Methodology” by Tongdan Jin, Balaji Janamanchi and Qianmei Feng, was published in International Journal of Production Economics in January 2011. ¨ Dr. Feng presented a poster “Integrated Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Variability and Product Reliability for Advanced and Evolving Technologies” at the NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 4-7, 2011.
2010 ¨ The IIE Transactions paper “Reliability and Maintenance Modeling for Systems Subject to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes” by Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng & David Coit was featured in the Industrial Engineer magazine, December 2010. (It is the third IIE Transactions paper featured in the Industrial Engineer magazine during the last four years.) ¨ Robert Conachey successfully presented his thesis proposal “Residual Life Predictions for Marine Electric Motor Pump Equipment” on December 3, 2010. ¨ Hao Peng successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Integrated Quality and Reliability Methodology for Complex Systems Subject to Multiple Failure Processes” on November 23, 2010. Congratulations, Dr. Peng! ¨ Parviz Kheirkhah successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Development of the Patient Scheduling System to Handle Patient No-Show Problem Using Data Mining and Simulation-Based Optimization Techniques” on November 18, 2010. Congratulations, Dr. Kheirkhah! ¨ Dr. Feng was invited to present a seminar in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, October 29, 2010. ¨ Dr. Feng was named the first recipient of the Brij and Sunita Agrawal Fellowship that was established to retain junior faculty in the IE department. ¨ Hao Peng was nominated by the department to attend the Future Academician Colloquium at 2010 INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, TX. Congratulations, Hao! ¨ Five abstracts have been accepted (two invited and three contributed) by the INFORMS Annual Conference 2010 that will be held in Austin, TX, November 2010: ¨ “Reliability and Maintenance of MEMS Subject to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes” by Hao Peng, Q. Feng and D. Coit ¨ “Component Reliability Criticality or Importance Metrics for Systems with Degrading Components” by Hao Peng, D. Coit and Q. Feng ¨ “Reliability and Maintenance of Stents based on Probabilistic Analysis of Multiple Failure Processes” by Elias Keedy and Q. Feng ¨ “Development of the Patient Scheduling System Using Data Mining and Simulation-Based Optimization” by Parviz Kheirkhah and Q. Feng ¨ “A Weighted-Alarm Security System for Multi-level Passenger and Baggage Screening” by Xiaoliang Xu and Q. Feng. ¨ Dr. Feng was invited to present her research (with Elias Keedy) for stent reliability at the 54th Annual Fall Technical Conference Quality and Statistics, Birmingham, AL, October 7-8, 2010. ¨ Dr. Feng presented seminars in two universities in China during July 2010: ¨ Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 19, 2010. ¨ School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Beijing, China, July 16, 2010. ¨ Dr. Feng has received a NSF grant ($230,000) for “Integrated Methodology for Quality and Reliability Modeling and Improvement for Advanced and Evolving Technologies” from NSF/CMMI/MES. ¨ Dr. Feng has received the competitive NHARP award ($98,610) for “Stent Reliability and Maintenance: Integrating Probabilistic and Physics-of-Failure Models” from the Texas Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program. ¨ Parviz Kheirkhah has successfully passed his PhD proposal defense on May 10, 2010. The title of his dissertation is “Development of the Patient Scheduling System to Handle Patient No-Show Problem Using Data Mining and Simulation-Based Optimization Techniques,” based on the collaboration with Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center at Houston. Congratulations, Parviz! ¨ The paper “Reliability and Maintenance Modeling for Systems Subject to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes” by Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng & David Coit, has been accepted for publication in IIE Transactions in April 2010. ¨ The paper “A Degradation-Based Model for Joint Optimization of Burn-in, Quality Inspection and Maintenance: A Light Display Device Application” by Qianmei Feng, Hao Peng and David Coit has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, in January 2010. ¨ Four abstracts have been accepted by the 2010 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) that will be held in Cancun, Mexico, June 2010: ¨ “Reliability Analysis for Stents Subject to Fatigue and Random Shocks” by Elias Keedy and Q. Feng (QCRE Division) ¨ “Nano-structures and Nano-systems: Evaluation of Current Reliability Practices and Future Recommendations” by D.W. Coit, Q. Feng and E. A. Elsayed (QCRE Division) ¨ “Supportability System Engineering: A Review and New Perspectives” by T. Song, L. Xing, and Q. Feng. (Systems Engineering Division) ¨ “Bayesian Analysis Models for Aviation Checked-Baggage Screening” by Q. Feng, Hande Sahin, and Marvin Karson (OR Division)
2009 ¨ Dr. Feng is among about 50 invitees from engineering and science disciplines to attend an NSF workshop on Nanomanufacturing: “Sensing and Prognostics for Scalability of Nanomanufacturing,” in Boston during November 2-4, 2009. ¨ The IIE Transactions paper “Bayesian Analysis Models for Aviation Baggage Screening” (by Hande Sahin, Qianmei Feng, and Marvin Karson) was featured in the Industrial Engineer magazine, October, 2009. (It is the second IIE Transactions paper featured in the Industrial Engineer magazine during the last three years.) ¨ The paper “Integrating DEA into Six Sigma Methodology for Measuring Health Service Efficiency” by Qianmei Feng and Jiju Antony was published in The Journal of Operational Research Society, and it is the 6th refereed journal paper published in 2009. ¨ Hao Peng proposed her PhD dissertation successfully in August, 2009. Congratulations, Hao! ¨ The paper “Reliability and Maintenance Modeling for Systems Subjected to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes” (by Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng and Dave Coit) was submitted to IIE Transactions in August 2009. ¨ The paper “Simultaneous Quality and Reliability Optimization for Microengines Subject to Degradation” (by Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng and Dave Coit) was published in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2009. ¨ Dr. Feng is selected for the 2010 Edition of Who’s Who in America. ¨ Hao Peng presented the paper “Reliability Modeling for MEMS Devices Subjected to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes ” in the IIE annual conference in Miami in June, 2009. The paper was nominated for the QCRE Best Paper Award. ¨ Hao Peng was nominated by the department chair to attend the doctoral colloquium at 2009 IIE Annual Conference, Miami, FL. ¨ Dr. Feng becomes the president of the IIE’s Quality Control & Reliability Engineering (QCRE) division, 2009-2010. ¨ Dr. Feng received the Cullen College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award, 2009. The paper “Under the Knife: a National Survey of Six Sigma Programs in U.S. Healthcare Organizations” (by Qianmei Feng, Chris Manuel) published in International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance won the Highly Commended Award from Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence in 2009.
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