Phone: (732)445-3654
E-mail: elsayed@rci.rutgers.edu
Office Location: Busch Campus, CoRE Building, Rm 201

Bio

Dr. E. A. Elsayed is Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University. He is also the Director of the NSF/ Industry/ University Co-operative Research Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering, Rutgers-Arizona State University. His research interests are in the areas of quality and reliability engineering, production planning and control and manufacturing processes and engineering. 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.

Dr. Elsayed is also a co-author of Analysis and control of Production Systems, Prentice-Hall, 2nd Edition, 1994. His research has been funded by the DoD, FAA, NSF, ONR and industry. Dr. Elsayed has been a consultant for AT&T Bell Laboratories, Ingersoll-Rand, Johnson & Johnson, Personal Products, AT&T Communications and other companies. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IIE Transactions and the Editor of the IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering. Dr. Elsayed is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Production Research and several journals.

Research Interest

Production analysis, planning, and control of automated manufacturing systems; sheet folding theory and applications, quality engineering in production systems; reliability theory and applications, accelerated life testing and design of accelerated testing plans, sensors and their applications in reliability estimate and maintenance of degraded systems, simulation and modeling of air traffic over the oceanic airspace.

Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, June 2007-present

Associate Editor, International Journal on Quality Technology and Quantitative
Management, August 2006-present

Guest Editor, Special Issue of the IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering Honoring Richard E. Barlow, 2006

Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, April 2005-August 2006

Consulting Editor, IIE Transactions, 2001-present

Area Editor, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 2000-present

Honors & Awards

Keynote Speaker, Reliability Economics, Technology of Oil and Gas 2006, September 12-14, Tripoli, Libya (sponsored by HESS Corporation).

Keynote Speaker, Quality and Reliability Week, May 28-June 1, 2006, Tripoli, Libya Plenary Speaker, "Reliability Prediction Using Accelerated Life Testing Plans", ALT 2006 (Accelerated Life Testing 2006) Conference, May 22-24, 2006, Angers, France.

Keynote Speaker, The 4th International Conference on Quality and Reliability, ICQR2005, August 9-11, 2005, Bijing, China

Keynote Speaker, The 2005 Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research (RASOR), Canmore, Canada, August 25-26, 2005

2005 Golomski Award for the outstanding paper “An Accelerated Life Testing Under Competing Failure Modes,” (with W. Zhao), 2004 Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium.

Recipient of the William Mong Distinguished Lecturers Award for 2004-2005, The University of Hong Kong.

1999 David F. Baker Research Award of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for Research Contributions to the discipline of Industrial Engineering Inducted Member of the Russian Academy for Quality, March 1999

Recipient of the 1997 IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award for "Reliability Engineering."

 Representative Publications                                            Top
 
Basily, B. B., Elsayed, E. A. and Kling, D., 2004, Technology for Continuous Folding of Sheet Materials, Patent 7,115,089, October 3, 2006.

Elsayed, E. A. and Zhang, H., “Design of Optimum Simple Step-Stress Accelerated Life Testing Plans,” Recent Advancement of Stochastic Operations Research, Edited by S., Dohi, T., S. Osaki and Sawaki, K., World Scientific, Singapore, January 2007.

Elsayed, E. A., “Reliability Prediction and Accelerated Testing,” Complex System Maintenance Handbook, Edited by: Kobbacy, K. A. H., and Murthy, D.N.P., Springer-Verlag, forthcoming 2007.

Reliability Engineering, E. A. Elsayed, Addison-Wesley, 780 pages, 1996 (with Solutions and Software). This book received the 1997 IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award

Analysis and Control of Production Systems, E. A. Elsayed and T. O. Boucher, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 450 pages, 1994 (with Solutions Manual), Second Edition.

Elsayed, E. A. and Zhang, H., “Optimum Multiple-Stress-Type Accelerated Life Testing Plans Based on Proportional Odds Model with Simple Step-Stress Loading,” Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés, Vol. 40, No. 7, pp. 745-762, 2006.

Elsayed, E. A. and Zhang, H., “Design of PH-based Accelerated Life Testing Plans under Multiple-Stress-Type,” Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, Vol. 92, pp. 286–292, 2007.

Liao, H. and Elsayed, E. A., “Reliability Inference for Field Conditions from Accelerated Degradation Testing” Naval Research Logistics, September Volume 53, No. 6, pp. 576-587, 2006.

Ding, Yu, Elsayed, E. A., Kumara, S., Lu, J-C, Niu, F. and Shi, J., “Distributed Sensing for Quality and Productivity Improvements,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 344-359, October 2006.

Fahmy, H. M. and Elsayed, E. A., “Drift Time Detection and Adjustment Procedures for Processes Subject to Linear Trend,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 44, No. 16, 15, pp. 3257–3278, August 2006.

Fahmy, H. M. and Elsayed, E. A., “Detection of Linear Trends in Process Mean,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 487-504, 2006.

Zhao, W. and Elsayed, E. A., “A General Accelerated Life Model for Step-Stress Testing,” IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 1059-1069, November 2005.

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