TOPICS OF INTERESTS (not limited to the following topics) · Quality engineering · Survival data analysis · Quality assurance and cost issues · Data collection and analysis · Quality planning and measurements · Prognostics and health management · Total quality management techniques · Condition based maintenance · Experimental design for quality control · Equipment management and maintenance · Methodologies for quality control · e-Maintenance · Reliability theory and application · Maintenance engineering theory and application · Reliability testing and statistics · Reliability centered maintenance · Product reliability and safety evaluation · Software maintenance · Human factors and reliability · Emergency maintenance · Software reliability and testing · Maintenance support modeling and simulation · Structural reliability · Maintainability engineering theory and application · Mechanism reliability · Contractor logistics theory and practice · Mechanical reliability · Robust design · Network reliability · Optimal design · Reliability tools for product development · Multidisciplinary design optimization · Risk assessment methods · Failure of Physics