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Rutgers University - Arizona State University Quality and reliability are key characteristics of vital products and systems, methods for assessing and improving the long-term reliability of complex systems, design of experiments, accelerated testing plans, software reliability and interaction with hardware.
Center Mission and Rationale The Center provides the opportunity to integrate university researchers, with the knowledge, experience, interests and resources of industry partners. The partners provide expertise and resources in critical problems of concern to industry such as efficient methods to improve product quality and reliability and optimal design of testing plans of the product. The Center provides technical expertise, the research resources of Rutgers University and the Arizona State University. The mission of the Center is to conduct research and develop models and prototypes for evaluating system performance and improving quality and reliability of components, products, and systems. Our goal is to provide timely, high quality, and cost-effective research, development, training, seminars, and workshops in the quality and reliability engineering areas. The Center has a reliability testing facility that can be used to assess the quality and reliability during the life cycle of products. The Quality and Reliability Engineering (QRE) Center is a national resource for research, technology evaluation, development of quality and reliability tools, quality and reliability testing, education, and information transfer. The QRE Center is dedicated to the vigorous pursuit of new techniques that will lead to high quality and highly reliable components, products, and systems. In the current environment of growing public demand for higher quality products, service, and rapid technological changes, the QRE Center plays a key role in serving the mutual interests of private industry, government agencies, and academia. As part of two major universities (Rutgers and Arizona State University), the QRE Center educates a new generation of technical personnel for careers in the quality and reliability engineering field.
The primary research activities of the center involve: 1) the development of new methods for improving product quality through design of experiments and response-surface methodologies; 2) development of approaches for estimating reliability of complex systems 3) innovative research for monitoring and controlling manufacturing process 4)test plans for accelerated life testing of highly reliable components 5) methods to asses the reliability of both software and hardware 5) education and technology transfer. Areas in which the Center is currently conducting research include:
The Center is integrating the research activities to the development of academic and continuing education programs. Undergraduate and graduate students are exposed to the R&D activities taking place at the Center. In addition, the Graduate Programs at both Rutgers University and Arizona State University offer tracks at the Masters and Doctoral levels in Quality and Reliability Engineering.
The QRE Center has a wide array of materials testing equipment, roundness measurement equipment, temperature and humidity chambers, vibration tests, and failure analysis equipment such as scanning electronic microscope (SEM) and voltage stressing equipment. LABVIEW and STATGRAPHICS software are available for student’s use. Center
Headquarters: Rutgers University Tel
(732) 445-3654
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Directors: Dr.
Elsayed A. Elsayed Dr.
J. Bert Keats
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Evaluator: Dr.
Donald McCabe
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