Advances in Microelectronics Qualification
Aug 9th, 2024 | University of Moratuwa, Srilanka
On Aug 9th, 2024, Prof. Pecht delivered the keynote address on "Advances in Microelectronics Qualification" at the Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference 2024 (MERCon). The University of Moratuwa organized the event and solicited research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions in all disciplines of engineering that aim to bring leading researchers and experts to address critical safety challenges and develop solutions that can make a real difference in people's lives.
Abstract of the Talk: Today, products are changing very rapidly, customers have more choices, tremendous price pressure exists on suppliers, and there is pressure to test quickly. However, the traditional test and qualification standards have been inadequate in preventing failures. In fact, over the past 20 years, there have been an increasingly large number of electronics that have passed qualification tests but have failed in the field. The resulting costs of these failures have been in the hundreds of millions of dollars for many companies. This talk will overview why the current qualification methods are inadequate, why the standards need to be replaced, how companies can qualify products in an accelerated manner to ensure acceptable reliability, and how AI-based prognostics is now being used to predict product reliability.
For more information, please contact Prof. Michael G. Pecht.
Prof. Michael Pecht (55,000+ citations, 105 H-Index) has a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin. He is a Professional Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, a PHM Society Life Fellow, an ASME Fellow, an ASM Fellow, an SAE Fellow and an IMAPS Fellow. He served as editor-in-chief of ASME Open, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Microelectronics Reliability, and Circuit World. He is currently editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s ePrime Journal of Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Energy. He has also served on three U.S. National Academy of Science studies, two US Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and as an expert to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is the Director of CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) at the University of Maryland (UMd), which is funded by over 150 of the world’s leading electronics companies at more than US$6M/year. He is a Professor in Applied Mathematics and in Mechanical Engineering at UMd. In 2008, he was awarded the highest reliability honor, the IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010, he received the IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award for his innovations in the area of AI-based prognostics and systems health management for electronics products.
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