RAMS 2021 Management Committee

Every year, the RAMS® is staffed entirely by volunteer Symposium officers who take on a significant workload for nothing but our thanks and the satisfaction of advancing their field. Their contributions are greatly appreciated.

General Chair
Sean Carter, NASA

Vice General Chair
Om Yadav, North Dakota State University

Treasurer
Charlie Plotkin, Ford Motor Company, Retired

Assistant Treasurer
Mike McKelvey, Boeing

Advanced Registration Consultant
Ken Dalton, Retired Reliability Engineer

Program Committee
Melvin Downes, ASQ ECD
Lori Bechtold, Consultant
Dongmei Chen,STEA
Brian Schadowsky, BAE Systems
Robert A. Schmedake, Boeing
Walter Tomczykowski, Tomczykowski Group LLC
Wendai Wang, Thoratec Corporation
Rong Pan, Arizona State University
Behnam Gohari, Rockwell Automation

Tutorials Committee
Vasiliy Krivtsov, The Ford Motor Company
Steve Glenn, Raytheon Company
Caroline Lubert, James Madison University
John Healy, Federal Communications Commission
Bill Haughey, ReliaTrain
Phil Mongan, ARES Corporation

Publicity Committee
Ming Li, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
John Klohoker, NASA/JPL
Jess Leszczynski, Sierra Nevada Corporation

Arrangements Committee
Dmitry Tananko, General Dynamics Land System
Mohammad Hijawi, FCA US LLC
Paul Franklin, Genpact
Troy Schwartz, Accenture

Registration Committee
Ying Shi, ASQ RD
Steve Glenn, Raytheon Company
Ken Dalton, Retired Reliability Enginee
David Auda, Volvo Powertrain

Exhibits Committee
David Barber, Scien-Tech Associates

Proceedings Committee
Joel Nachlas, Virginia Tech

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession, with more than 30,000 individual members from 88 countries. AIAA's mission is to inspire and advance the future of aerospace for the benefit of humanity. AIAA co-sponsors RAMS due to its interest in engineering requirements, mission critical design, and acquisition as affected by R&M policies, methodologies, lessons learned, modeling, simulation, case studies, and training. Find out more at https://www.aiaa.org/.

AIAA

The Reliability Society is a technical Society within the IEEE, and supports professionals engaged in assuring reliability in the engineering disciplines of hardware, software, and human factors throughout the total life cycle. IEEE-RS co-sponsors RAMS because of its interest in contributing to the planning and the selection of the system architecture, HW & SW design implementation, materials, processes, and components; followed by verifying the selections made by thorough analysis and test and sustainment. Find out more at http://rs.ieee.org/.

IEEE

The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) specializes in accelerated test methods; laboratory facilities and instrumentation necessary for field measurements, product reliability growth, demonstration and durability testing. IEST supports the technology development related to environmental test controls and methodologies; environmental stress screening; Highly Accelerated Limit (Life) Testing (HALT/HASS); and is the owner of MIL-STD-810. It is one of the founding societies for RAMS with emphasis on all aspects of environmental testing for product evaluation. Find out more at http://www.iest.org/.

IEST

IISE is the leading provider of cutting-edge industrial and systems engineering continuing education and a decades-long supporter of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. It is a leading source of productivity improvement information via publications and live events. Member benefits include a magazine, professional development programs, an online career center, social networks, industry- and discipline-specific societies and divisions, such as the Quality Control & Reliability Division, chapters, and affinity programs. Find out more at http://www.iise.org/Home/.

IISE

The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS®) is one of the most comprehensive gatherings of R&M professionals held today. Attendance at the symposium is a unique opportunity for the System Safety Engineer to learn new and innovative ideas proposed by complimentary disciplines and how these ideas can be leveraged to enhance their own system safety efforts. The program is focused on the latest technical practices and procedures presented through technical papers and tutorials. Attendance at RAMS provides ISSS members the opportunity to learn new techniques, as well as new perspectives and networking/communication opportunities resulting in overall improvements to the design, production and operation of safer products. Find out more at http://www.system-safety.org/.

ISSS

The American Society for Quality is a leading technical society for quality and reliability, provides a broad range of resources, training, and certification in for quality and reliability engineers. The Reliability Division of ASQ is a long time sponsor of RAMS. Find out more at http://asqrd.org/.

ASQ RD

The Society of Automotive Engineers is a co-sponsor of RAMS, and is the ultimate knowledge source for mobility engineering. It supports its members through personal and professional growth opportunities, networking, and the opportunity to engage in industrial and educational leadership. Find out more at http://www.sae.org/.

SAE

The Society of Reliability Engineers is a technical society dedicated to promoting professional development and technical advancement in reliability engineering. Chapters are active throughout the United States and internationally. Find out more at http://www.sre.org/.

SRE

ECD is the Electronics and Communications Division of ASQ, one of 25 such industry and topic communities of the Society. Its members are quality and reliability professionals concerned with all types and levels of electrical, electronic, and communication products. The mission of ECD is to provide member benefits that will grow and retain a diverse global quality community from across the electronics and communications industries. The excellence of the presentations and tutorials makes RAMS® one of the most comprehensive events for the reliability and maintainability engineering disciplines and this aligns very well with the ECD. Find out more at http://asq.org/ec.

ASQ ECD

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