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EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Mechanical Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, Fatigue Failure Analysis, Accident Reconstruction Consultant, Specialist, Forensic Analysis Investigation Expert, Patent Infringement, Expert Witness Testimony, Engineering Consulting ServicesExpertise in reliability, maintainability and availability engineering, operational readiness, system effectiveness, design by reliability, reliability and life testing, reliability growth, accelerated, bayesian and nonparametric testing, burn-in testing, and environmental stress screening.
This associate offers specific expertise relative to fluid weight vibrator, articulated crusher, rotary compressor-motor, cominution apparatus, ultrasonic cominution apparatus, plasticity-theory and applications, manufacturing, planning and estimating, probabilistic design for reliability, product assurance films on reliability engineering and management, reliability testing, maintainability and quality control, and reliability testing techniques.
Extensive knowledge regarding reliability and industrial success, reliability, maintainability and availability software, reliability engineering, reliability & life testing, environmental stress screening, quantification, optimization and management, maintainability, availability and operational readiness engineering, burn-in testing, robust engineering design-by-reliability with emphasis on mechanical components and structural reliability, suspended items reliability testing and analysis of field and warranty data.
Highly experienced in areas including preventive maintenance by age replacement, prediction of reliability of mechanical components, mechanical reliability research needs, sudden-death testing, tests of comparison for weibull distribution, reliability, maintainability cost benefits, success-run reliability testing, confidence level rank reliability testing, reliability and maintainability engineering programs in developing countries, reliability of aircraft splines with or without a wear induction period, recommended readings in fields of reliability and maintainability.
Specialization includes reducing cost of equipment while increasing its reliability, accelerated life testing and reliability determination for mechanical and electromechanical components, efficient accelerated reliability and life testing techniques, reliability education, arrhenius, eyring, inverse power law and combination models in accelerated life testing, aspects of unreliability and reliability determination by stress/strength interference approach, weibull stress-life, log-log stress-life, overload-stress reliability models in accelerated life testing, and comparative accuracy of evaluating reliability using simpson's rule.
Additional areas of interest include trapezoidal rule and gauss-legendre method, exact solutions for prediction of reliability of mechanical components and structural members, optimum two-sided confidence interval for location parameter of exponential distribution, reliability engineering education and training, probabilistic approach to designing desired mechanical reliability, data research and education needs, accelerated testing of mechanical equipment, reliability of load-sharing weibullian units, equipment reliability bath-tub curve models, quantified software reliability techniques, optimum sample size for sequential test plan, reliability of a repairable standby system with imperfect sensing and switching, error band estimation on monte carlo simulations, graphical representation of two mixed-weibull distributions, maximum likelihood estimates, spares prediction with growth and warranty, wear reliability and preventive replacement policy for mechanical components. Extensive knowledge regarding modified gompertz reliability growth model, mixed-weibull parameter estimation for burn-in data using bayesian approach, time dynamic programming models for opportunistic replacement policy and application to ball-bearing systems, system classification and optimum maintenance scheduling, optimum random vibration screening duration, fatigue reliability evaluation and preventive maintenance policy, reliability of maintained equipment using ordinary, modified or reconditioned parts, block replacement policy, random cumulative damage rules and fatigue reliability, new quantification of reliability of components and structural members, optimal and multistage preventive maintenance strategies for equipment, combined-stress fatigue reliability analysis, parameter estimation for mixed-weibull distribution, a unified approach to random fatigue reliability quantification, reliability prediction and optimum design of bolts under static and fatigue loads.
Has conducted numerous studies in areas including fatigue aging acceleration under random vibration stressing, new approaches to determine endurance strength distribution, new method of obtaining ttt plot for a censored sample, determination of optimum burn-in time from maximum mrl directly from ttt plot, confidence limits on inherent availability of equipment, reliability and random cumulative fatigue damage rule for residual fatigue life, fatigue life prediction under random loading using distributional stress-life relationship, reliability prediction under sequential loading, fitting weibull log-linear model to accelerated life-test data, simplified random vibration analysis on portable electronic products, confidence limits on inherent availability of equipment, best test sample size for constant failure rate case, exponential distribution, reliability and maintainability engineering
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Aerospace, Appliances, Automotive, Consumer Goods, Electronics, HVAC, Information Technology, Manfacturing, Telecommunications
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Consultant, Reliability and Life Testing Consultant, Product Assurance Consultant
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Provided reliability engineering, maintainability and test engineering, product assurance, reliability data analysis, reliability in design, burn-in testing, and environmental stress screening lectures, seminars, and short courses worldwide. International consultant to corporations and government organizations including Alcatel Telecommunications, Amway, Analytical Sciences, B.F. Goodrich, Brooktree, Data General, Dell Computers, Digital Equipment, Ford, General Electric, General Instruments, General Motors, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, ITT Power Systems, Jet Propulsion Lab, Motorola, Polaroid, Procter & Gamble, Science Applications, SEMATEK, Sprint, Texas Instruments, Whirlpool, Teltec, Standard Microsystems, Telectronics, Square D, and NASA.
Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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Responsibilities included overseeing a graduate level program in Reliability Engineering, Reliability and Quality Analysis, Reliability Testing, Maintainability Engineering.
Director, Gas Register Corporation, Tucson, AZ
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Consulted with over 100 companies and organizations.
Director of Corporate Reliability Engineering, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, WI
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Held a variety of engineering positions focused on corporate reliability.
Business Manager and U.S. Representative, Kehris Company, Istanbul, Turkey
Business Manager, Lukec Company, Istanbul, Turkey
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Director of the Annual Reliability Engineering and Management Institute, and the Annual Reliability Testing Institute
Conducted more than 403 seminars, institutes and short courses in the United States and abroad in reliability engineering, mechanical reliability, reliability testing, reliability data analysis, reliability in design, burn-in testing, environmental stress screening, and maintainability engineering
Courses included
AME 472/572, Reliability Engineering.
AME 474/574, Reliability and Quality Analysis.
AME 575, Reliability Testing.
AME 577, Maintainability Engineering.
Has trained over 12,000 engineers from industries, government, and universities in Reliability, Maintainability and Testing worldwide.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fulbright Scholar
SAE’s Ralph R. Teetor Education Award
ASQ’s Reliability Education Advancement Award
ASQ’s Reliability Division Allen Chop Award
Certificate of Excellence, Society of Reliability Engineers
Honorary Professor, of the New Shanghai University of Technology, People’s Republic of China
The University of Arizona’s Anderson Prize
Inducted into The University of Arizona Presidents Club
Video campus award for teaching the most courses in this program
The Academy of Achievements Award in Education, from the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA)
Society of Automotive Engineers’ Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
ASME
Society for Experimental Stress Analysis
ASEE
IEEE
Fellow, American Society for Quality
Society of Reliability Engineers
Hellenic Operations Research Society of Greece
AIAA
Fellow, Society of Automotive Engineers
Tau Beta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
Golden Key Honor Society
PUBLICATIONS
Holds 5 patents and has written more than 160 papers and articles. Published 8 books and has contributed to 14 books on reliability and maintainability engineering and testing.
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