Curriculum Vitae
Kailash (Kal) C. Kapur

Director & Professor
University of Washington
Industrial Engineering Program
Box 352650
Seattle, WA 98195-2650
 Voice: (206) 543-4604 or (206) 543-1427
Fax: (206) 685-3072
E-Mail: kkapur@u.washington.edu

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Citizenship: United States of America
Home Address: 4484 East Mercer Way
Mercer Island, WA 98040-3828
Voice: (206) 230-0301

EDUCATION

1969Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. Dissertation: Optimization Techniques for Optimal Control Systems with State Space Constraints (Thesis Advisor, Dr. R. M. VanSlyke)
1967M.S. in Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
1965-66Graduate Studies in Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1965Master of Technology (M. Tech) in Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
1963B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Delhi University, India (Graduated with Distinction)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Academic Appointments

August 1992 - Present
Industrial Engineering Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 August 1989 - August 1992
School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 September 1970 - August 1989
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 September 1977 - August 1978
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Management Sciences, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada September 1966 - June 1969
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley January 1966 - June 1966
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Industrial Appointments

1985 - 1987
Board of Directors, American Supplier Institute, Dearborn, MI July 1978 - September 1978
U.S. Army, Tank Automotive Command, Warren, Michigan June 1973 - September 1973
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan June 1969 - August 1970
Transportation Research Department, General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan June 1966 - September 1966
Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota January 1962 - June 1965
Worked as a trainee in the following organizations:

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING

Lucky Goldstar (LG) Group, Korea (1995 - Cont.)
Design and implementation of reliability programs for industrial control systems; quality improvement of PCB manufacturing processes, and education and training to change culture to consider reliability throughout product life cycle

Flowdrill Corporation, Kent, Washington (1996)
Reliability growth process for high speed waterjet drilling for gas

Embraco, North America and Brazil (1994 - 1996)
Reliability test plans, accelerated testing and reliability management

Boeing, Fabrication Division (1993 - 1994)
Reliability and maintainability for facilities and equipment

Cummins Engines, Diesel Re Con (1991 - 1994)
Education and training on topics related QFD and TQM in manufacturing

General Motors Corporation (1982 - 1993)
Consultant to various groups on the following topics: reliability in product design and testing, quality engineering, quality loss function, industrial experimental design, quality function deployment, Taguchi Methods.

Ford Motor Company (1975 - 1990)
Consultant to various groups in quality engineering, reliability engineering, product design and development, training programs, quality function deployment, etc.

Chrysler Corporation (1984 - 1990)
Training and consulting on reliability and quality engineering

American Supplier Institute, Inc. (1985 - 1991)
Consultant on quality engineering, Taguchi Methods, reliability and quality function development (QFD). Board of Directors (1985 - 1987)

Caterpillar (1987 - 1988)
Consultant on design and development of a system for new product introduction (also topics related to quality function deployment).

Ford Supplier Institute, Michigan (1983 - 1985)
Seminars on Statistical Thinking for Manufacturing Processes, Statistical Process Control and Quality Improvement through Quality Circles.

U.S. Army, Tank Automotive Command, Warren, Michigan (1978 - 1985)
Reliability Engineering, RAM analysis during concept and design, reliability training programs.

Some of the other companies I have done consulting for are: Budd, Bentler, Dana, Delco Remy (GM), 3M, Permonite, Phillip Morris, Shellar Globe, Texas Instruments, Whirlpool, Xerox.

SPECIAL CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND STUDY MISSIONS

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

AWARDS AND HONORS

BIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES AND CITATIONS

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

FUNDED RESEARCH

June 1995 - December 1995 Principal Investigator, Reliability Improvement for Air-to-Ground Communication System, AT&T Wireless, Seattle, WA
July 1994 - May 1996 Co-Principal Investigator, The Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership, a coalition of Penn State, University of Washington, University of Puerto Rico and Sandia National Laboratories, ARPA/NSF
January 1993 - August 1993 Principal Investigator, Concurrent Engineering Using Robust Design, Graduate School Fund, University of Washington
September 1992 - December 1992 Reliability Physics and Failure Analysis, Supercollider Project, High Energy Physics, University of Washington.
September 1991 - August 1992 Principal Investigator, Quality Assurance and Implementation of Current Methods, Oklahoma Center for Integrated Design and Manufacturing - Computer Integrated Manufacturing (OCIDM-CIM), Oklahoma Center for Applied Science and Technology (OCAST)
August 1990 - August 1991 Principal Investigator, Quality Assurance, Oklahoma Center for Integrated Design and Manufacturing - Computer Aided Manufacturing (OCIDM-CAM), Oklahoma Center for Applied Science and Technology (OCAST)
June 1988 - August 1989 Principal Investigator, Quality Management, General Motors Technical Center, Michigan
April 1987 - September 1989 Principal Investigator, Quality Engineering - Development and Implementation, American Supplier Institute, Dearborn, Michigan
September 1987 - August 1988 DeVlieg Foundation Faculty Scholar Award for Design and Quality Optimization to Improve Manufacturability
September 1987 - August 1989 Principal Investigator, Quality Engineering, General Motors Technical Center, Michigan
November 1986 - August 1989 Principal Investigator, Design Reliability and Quality Optimization to Improve Manufacturability, Institute for Manufacturing Research, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
July 1981 - October 1982 Research Investigator, An Analysis of Total System Costs Related to Bus Garage and Network Configuration, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Washington, D.C.
July 1980 - August 1981 Research Investigator, A Methodology for Locating and Sizing Transit Fixed Facilities and the Detroit Case Study, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Washington, D.C.
July 1979 - March 1980 Co-Principal Investigator, A Methodology for Estimating Mission Reliability, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command, Warren, MI
September 1975 - August 1976 Principal Investigator, Design and Management of Reliability Programs, Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corporation, Warren, MI
September 1974 - August 1975 Principal Investigator, Reliability Optimization and Trade-Off Analysis, Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corporation, Warren, MI
April 1973 - 1974 Principal Investigator, Design by Reliability, Chevrolet Engineering Center, Warren, MI
April 1972 - December 1972 Co-Principal Investigator, Reliability Engineering as Applied to Product Design and Development, Chevrolet Engineering Center, Warren, MI
April 1972 - January 1973 Co-Principal Investigator, Validation of Stimulus-Response Relations for Vehicular Traffic by Optimization Theory Based on Data Gathered by Aerial Photogrammetric Methods, National Science Foundation, GU 3471, Grant-in Aid, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

COURSES TAUGHT AT VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (1970 - 1989)

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (1989-1992)

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1992 - Cont.)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR

Major advisor of the following students:
  1. Dr. S. I. Taraman (1974) - Director, Ford Motor Company
  2. Dr. K. Mirkhani (1977) - Manager, EDS
  3. Dr. J.C. Hudson (1981) - Professor, GMI
  4. Dr. C.P. Hwang (1983) - General, Air Force, Taiwan
  5. Dr. G. Chen (1990) - Assistant Professor, Morgan State University
  6. Dr. M. Kang (1992) - Colonel, Air Force, Korea
  7. Dr. R. Boedigheimer (1992) - Professor, Air Force Academy
  8. Dr. B.R. Cho (1994) - Assistant Professor, Clemson University

SPECIAL COURSES

Reliability in Product Design and Testing
Designed, developed and taught this one-week course over 25 times from 1976-1991, and also co-taught this course several times with Dr. L. R. Lamberson.

Reliability Engineering: Measurement, Improvement and Management
Designed, developed and taught this one-week course several times from 1985-1993.

System Safety and Reliability Analysis
Designed, developed and co-taught, with Dave Haasl, this two-week course during August 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and September 1995 (special course for Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] for Aircraft certification). This course is offered through the College of Engineering, University of Washington.

Organizational Training
Designed, developed and taught 3 to 5-day courses for several organizations. The course titles were:

  1. Statistical Thinking
  2. Quality Improvement Through Quality Circles
  3. Quality Engineering (Taguchi Methods)
  4. Advanced Quality Engineering
  5. Quality Loss Function
  6. Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  7. Total Quality Management (TQM)

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  1. Kapur, K.C. and Lamberson, L.R., Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY 1977, 586 pages 19th Printing. Also translated in Russian, MIR Publishing of Moscow, Russia. Working on the Second Edition of the book to be published in 1998.
  2. Kapur, K.C. and Lamberson, L.R. Reliability, a Chapter in Mechanical Design Handbook, edited by Harold A. Rothbart, McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 8.1-8.23.
  3. Kapur, K.C., Techniques for Estimating Reliability at Design State, a Chapter in Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management, edited by W. Grant Ireson and Clyde F. Coombs, McGraw-Hill, 1988, pp. 18.1 - 18.34. 2nd Edition, published in 1995.
  4. Kapur, K.C., Mathematical and Statistical Methods and Models in Reliability and Life Studies, a chapter in Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management, edited by W. Grant Ireson and Clyde F. Coombs, McGraw-Hill, 1988, pp. 19.1 - 19.48. 2nd Edition, published in 1995.
  5. Kapur, K. C., Reliability and Maintainability, a Chapter in the Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Second Edition, edited by Gavriel Salvendy, John & Sons, 1992.
  6. Kapur, K.C. Reliability Engineering, a chapter in Probability and Its Engineering Applications by David H. Evans, Marcel Dekker, Inc., N.Y., 1992, pp. 415 - 474.
  7. Kapur, K.C., Quality Engineering and Tolerance Design, a chapter in Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools and Techniques, edited by Andrew Kusiak, John Wiley & Sons, N.Y., 1992, pp. 287-306.
  8. Kapur, K.C., Reliability Engineering Handbook, Marcel Dekker, Inc., N.Y., (I am the editor of this major professional and research handbook, in press).

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Kapur, K.C., "Mathematical Models of Optimization for Multi-Objective Transportation Systems," International Journal of Socio-Economic Planning Science, Vol. 1, No. 4, Dec. 1970, pp. 451-567.
  2. Kapur, K.C. and VanSlyke, R.M., "Cutting Plane Algorithms and State Space Constrained Linear Optimal Control Systems," Journal of Computer and Systems Science, Vol. IV, No. 4, Dec. 1970, pp. 570-605.
  3. Kapur, K.C., "An Algorithm for Linear Optimal Control Systems with State Space Constraints," International Journal of Control, Vol. 14, No. 5, 1971, pp. 873-879.
  4. Kapur, K.C., "Vehicle Following Behavior by Calculus of Variation," International Journal of Transportation Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 1971, pp. 2-16.
  5. Kapur, K.C. "Development of Vehicle Following Behavior for Automated Vehicle Systems," Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, Vol. 6, 1972, pp. 225-236.
  6. Kapur, K.C. and Beckman, J.J., "Duality and Transportation Analysis," International Journal of Transportation Research, Vol. 6, 1972, pp. 2-16.
  7. Beckman, M. J. and Kapur, K.C., "Conjugate Duality: Some Applications to Economic Theory," Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1973, pp. 16-31.
  8. Kapur, K.C., "On Cut-Off Optimization Techniques in Infinite Dimensional Spaces and Applications," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1973, pp. 16-31.
  9. Kapur, K.C., "On Project Cost-Duration Analysis Problem with Quadratic and Convex Cost Function," Theory of Scheduling and Its Application, Springer-Verlag, 1973, pp. 324-358.
  10. Belenson, S.M. and Kapur, K.C., "An Algorithm for Multi-Criterion Linear Programming with Example," Operational Research Quarterly, Vol. 24, 1973, pp. 65-77.
  11. Kapur, K.C., "Vehicular Traffic Dynamics for Automated Vehicle Systems by Optimization Theory," Optimization & Design, Prentice Hall 1973.
  12. Kapur, K.C., "On Max-Min Problems," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1973, pp. 639-644.
  13. Kapur, K.C., "An Algorithm for Project Cost-Duration Analysis Problem with Quadratic and Convex Cost Functions," Transactions of American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1973, pp. 314-322.
  14. Sahney, V.K. and Kapur, K.C., "An Optimization Model for Labor Limited Scheduling Under a Round Robin Policy," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1974, pp. 377-390.
  15. Taraman, S. and Kapur, K.C., "Optimization Considerations in Design Reliability by Stress-Strength Interference Theory," Transactions of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers on Reliability, Vol. R-24, No. 2, June 1975, pp. 136-138.
  16. Kapur, K.C., "Reliability Bounds in Probabilistic Design," Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 1975, pp. 185-192.
  17. Kapur, K.C., "Optimization in Design by Reliability," Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 1975, pp. 185-192.
  18. Haase, R., Kapur, K.C. and Lamberson, L.R., "Applications of Reliability Growth Models During Light Truck Design and Development," Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Transactions, September 1979, pp. 1105-1113.
  19. Kapur, K.C., "On Surrogate Linear Programming," Transactions of American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vol. 10, No. 2, June 1978, pp. 214-216.
  20. Schmitz, K.H., Lamberson, L.R. and Kapur, K.C., "Operating Characteristic Curves for Minimum Life Hypotheses Testing for the Exponential Distribution," Technometrics, Vol. 21, No. 4, Nov. 1979, pp. 539-547.
  21. Kapur, K.C. and Lamberson, L.R., "Optimum Test Design Strategies," Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 20, Nos. 1/2, May 1980, pp. 75-82.
  22. Maze, T.J., Kapur, K.C., et al., "Proposed Approach to Determine Optimal Number, Size and Location of Bus Garage Additions," Transportation Research Record, No. 798, National Academy of Sciences, January 1981, pp. 11-18.
  23. Hudson, J.C. and Kapur, K.C., "Reliability Theory for Multistate Systems with Multistate Components," Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 22, No. 1, January 1982, pp. 1-7.
  24. Neff, J. and Kapur, K.C., "Methodology for R & M Comparison of Foreign and U.S. Military Trucks," Proceedings of the 1982 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, January 1982, pp. 398-403.
  25. Maze, T.H., Kapur, K.C., et al., "A General Purpose Solution Methodology For The Bus Garage Location Problem," Transportation Research Record, No. 877, Urban Public Transportation Planning Issue, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 20-22
  26. Hudson, J.C. and Kapur, K.C., "Reliability Analysis of Multistate Systems with Multistate Components," Transactions of Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 1983, pp. 127-135.
  27. Hudson, J.C. and Kapur, K.C., "Modules in Coherent Multistate Systems," Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-32, No. 2, June 1983, pp. 183-185.
  28. Hudson, J.C. and Kapur, K.C., "Reliability Bounds for Multistate Systems with Multi-State Components," Operations Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, January-February 1985, pp. 15-160.
  29. Kapur, K.C., "Quality Evaluation Systems for Reliability," Reliability Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 1986.
  30. Kapur, K.C., "Optimal Reliability Demonstration for Binomial Testing Situation," Reliability Engineering, an International Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1987, pp. 103-112.
  31. Kapur K.C. and Chen, G., "Signal-to-Noise Ratio Development in Quality Engineering," Quality and Reliability Engineering, an International Journal, Vol. 4, 1988, pp. 133-141.
  32. Kapur, K.C., "An Approach for Development of Specifications for Quality Improvement," Quality Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1988-89, pp. 63-78.
  33. Shao, J. and Kapur, K.C., "Multilevel Modular Decomposition for Multistate Systems," Proceedings of Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, January 1989, pp. 102-107.
  34. Kapur, K.C., Raman, S. and Pulat, P.S., "Methodology for Tolerance Design Using Quality Loss Function," Computer and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-4, 1990, pp. 254-257.
  35. Kang, M., Kapur, K.C. and Pulat, P.S., "Interactive Partitioning Criteria Set Method for Multiple Objective Linear Programming Procedure," Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1993, pp. 435-446.
  36. Boedigheimer, R. and Kapur, K.C., "Involving the Customer in the Development and Evaluation of Multistate Reliability Models," Proceedings of the 39th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 1993.
  37. Kapur, K.C. and Cho, B.R., "Economic Design and Development of Specifications," Quality Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1994, pp. 401-417.
  38. Boedigheimer, R. and Kapur, K.C., "Customer Driven Reliability Models for Multistate Coherent Systems," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 43, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 46-50.
  39. Kapur, K.C., "Robust Design, Manufacturing and Concurrent Engineering," Journal of Design and Manufacturing, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1994, pp. 31-39.
  40. Chen, G. and Kapur, K.C., "Tolerance Design by Break-Even Analysis for Reducing Variation and Cost," International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1994, pp. 445-457.
  41. Cho, B.R. and Kapur, K.C., "Economic Design of the Specification Region for Multiple Quality Characteristics," Transactions of Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vol. 28, 1996, pp. 237-248.
  42. Bare, J., Kapur, K.C. and Zabinsky, Z., "Optimization Methods for Tolerance Design Using A First-Order Approximation for the System Variance," Engineering Design and Automation Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, pp. 203-214.
  43. Brunelle, R.D. and Kapur, K.C., "Customer-Centered Reliability Methodology," Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 1997, pp. 286-292.
  44. Yang, Kai and Kapur, K.C., "Customer-Driven Reliability Integration of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Robust Design," Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 1997, pp. 339-345.
  45. Chen, G. and Kapur, K.C., "A Two-Step Robust Design Procedure for Linear Dynamic Systems for Reducing Performance Variations," accepted for publication in the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 1997.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS

  1. Kapur, K.C. and VanSlyke, R.M., "Mathematical Programming Solutions of State Space Constrained Optimal Control Problems," Proceedings of the Joint Automatic Control Conference, June 1970.
  2. Kapur, K.C., "Vehicular Traffic Dynamics for Automated Vehicle Systems by Optimization Theory," Proceedings of NATO Summer School on Impact of Optimization Theory on Technological Design, Louvain, Belgium, August 1971.
  3. Haase, R., Kapur, K.C. and Lamberson, L.R., "Applications of Reliability Growth Models During Light Truck Design and Development," SAE Congress and Proceedings, March 1978.
  4. Kapur, K.C., "Optimization in Probabilistic Design for Engineering Systems," Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Large Engineering Systems, University of Waterloo, May 1978.
  5. Kapur, K.C., "Quality Loss Function and Inspection," Proceeding of TMI Conference on Innovation in Quality (available through Engineering Society of Detroit), Detroit, Michigan, September 21-24, 1987.
  6. Kapur, K.C. and Wang, C.J., "Economic Design of Specification Based on Taguchi's Concept of Quality Loss Function," Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Symposium on Quality: Design, Planning and Control, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 13-18, 1987, pp. 23-26.
  7. Kapur, K.C., "Product and Process Design Optimization by Design of Experiment Using Taguchi Methods," Proceedings of Society of Automotive Engineers, Technical Paper No. 880821, SAE Earth Moving Conference, Peoria, Illinois, April 1988.
  8. Kapur K.C. and Chen, G., "Quality Evaluation System Using Loss Function," 1989 International Industrial Engineering Conference and Societies' Manufacturing and Productivity Symposium Proceedings, May 1989, pp. 363-368.
  9. Kapur, K.C., "Quality Improvement Through Robust Design," Proceedings of 1991 International Industrial Engineering Conference, Detroit, Michigan, May 20-22, 1991, pp. 159-167.
  10. Kapur, K.C., "Design and Manufacturability Models Using Robust Design," Proceedings of the IIE 1992 Aerospace and Defense Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 26-38, 1992.
  11. Kapur, K.C., "Reliability: Robustness Over Time," Proceedings of First IE Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-21, 1992.
  12. Chen, G. and Kapur, K.C., " Optimization Design of Dynamic Systems by Quality Engineering," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Reliability, Quality Control and Risk Assessment, Washington, D.C., November 4-6, 1992, pp. 160-163.
  13. Chen, G. and Kapur, K.C., "Reducing Variation and Quality Cost for Tolerance Design," Proceedings of Second Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Los Angeles, California, May 26-27, 1993, pp. 654-658.
  14. Kapur, K.C. and Cho, B.R., "Univariate and Multivariate Quality Loss Function," Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Reliability, Quality Control and Risk Assessment, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 13-15, 1993.
  15. Cho, B.R., Kapur, K.C. and Trafalis, T.B., "Quality Evaluation by Quadratic Loss Function," Proceedings of Quality Leadership Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 19-20, 1994.
  16. Cho, B.R., Chen, G. and Kapur, K.C., "Design Optimization to Achieve Robustness for Static and Dynamic Systems," Proceedings of the Third IASTED International Conference, Washington, D.C., October 3-4, 1994, pp. 41-44.
  17. Kapur, K.C., "Reliability Engineering and Robust Design," Proceedings of FORD Conference on Reliability and Robust Design, Dearborn, Michigan, November 17-18, 1994.
  18. Young, K. and Kapur, K.C. "Customer Driven Reliability: Models, Testing and Improvement," FORD Robustness Reliability Symposium, Dearborn, Michigan, October 9-10, 1995.
  19. Cho, B.R., Phillips, M.D. and Kapur, K.C., "Quality Improvement by RSM Modeling for Robust Design," Proceedings of 5th Industrial Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May, 1996.
  20. Kapur, K.C., "Integrated Product Testing: Methods and Management," Proceedings of International Test and Evaluation Association Symposium, Seattle, Washington, October, 1996.
  21. Brunelle, R.D. and Kapur, K.C., "Continuous Structure Function Calculation: An Interpolation Approach," Proceedings of the 6th Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, Florida, May 16-17, 1997.
  22. Brunelle, R.D. and Kapur, K.C., "Customer-Centered Reliability Methodology," Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 1997.

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  1. "An Algorithm for Linear Optimal Control System With State Space Constraints," General Motors Research Laboratories Research Publications, GMR-927. Presented at the 36th National Meeting of Operations Research Society of America, November 1969.
  2. "Mathematical Models of Optimization for Multi-Objective Transportation Systems," General Motors Research Laboratories Research Publications, GMR-965. Presented at the 37th National Meeting of Operations Research Society of America, April 1970
  3. "On Duality and Conjugacy in Nonlinear Programming With Some Application," (with M.J. Beckmann), General Motors Research Laboratories Report GMR-1004, presented at the 7th International Mathematical Programming Symposium. The Hague, September 1970.
  4. "Mathematical Programming Solutions for State Space Constrained optimal Control Problems," (with R.M. VanSlyke), Proceedings of the Joint Automatic Control Conference, June 1970. Presented at the conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
  5. "A Cutting Plane Algorithm in Function Space with Applications to Optimal Control Problems," (with R.M. VanSlyke), presented at the 7th International Mathematical Programming Symposium, The Hague, September 1970.
  6. "Mathematical Programming and Utility Theory Approach to Integrated Transportation and Urban System," presented at TIMS International Meeting in Washington, D.C., March 1971.
  7. "Vehicular Traffic Dynamics for Automated Vehicle Systems by Optimization Theory," presented at NATO Summer School on Impact of Optimization Theory on Technological Design, Louvain, Belgium, August 1971.
  8. "On Project Cost Curves with Quadratic and Convex Cost Function," Invited Presentation, Theory of Scheduling Symposium, North Carolina State University, May 1972, Sponsored by Office Naval Research.
  9. "Optimal Vehicle Following Considerations for Automated Transportation Systems," Joint National Meeting of ORSA, TIMS, and AIIE, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 1972.
  10. "Applications of Conjugate Duality in Networks and Economic Theory," National Science Foundation Regional Conference on Conjugate Duality, Johns Hopkins University, June 1973.
  11. "Optimization in Engineering Design for Reliability," Conference on Optimization and Engineering Design by Office of Naval Research and ORSA-TIMS, Miami Beach, Florida, 1976
  12. "Probabilistic Engineering Design and Optimization," Joint National Meeting on ORSA-TIMS, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 1975.
  13. "An Algorithm of Parametric Minimal Solution for Networks with Convex Cost," Joint National Meeting of ORSA-TIMS, Miami, Beach, Florida, November 1976.
  14. "Reliability in Engineering Design and Testing," series of invited lectures for three weeks at Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan, July-August 1977.
  15. "Applications of Reliability Growth Models to Light Truck Design and Development," (with R. Haase and L.R. Lamberson) SAE Congress, Detroit, Michigan, March 1978.
  16. "Reliability Optimization With Failure Cost," (with Harris and Lamberson) AIIE National Meeting, Toronto, May 1978 (Published in the Proceedings).
  17. "Analysis of Failure Data With Suspended Items," (with Handy and Lamberson) ASQC National Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May 1978 (Published in the Proceedings).
  18. "Reliability in Product Design," Annual Reliability Forum, Bendix Corporation, Southfield, Michigan, October 23, 1979 (Published in the Proceedings).
  19. "Optimum Test Design Strategies," Canadian Reliability Symposium, Toronto, May 16-17, 1980 (Published in the Proceedings).
  20. "Proposed Approach to Determine Optimal Number, Size and Location of Bus Garage Additions," (with T.M. Maze, et al.), Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 1981.
  21. "Reliability Theory for Multistate System with Multistate Components," (with J.C. Hudson), Society of Reliability Engineers Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, April 1981.
  22. "Multistate Systems with Multistate Components and Their Reliability Computations," (with J.C. Hudson), Annual Conference of American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Detroit, Michigan, May 1981 (Published in Proceedings).
  23. "Reliability Theory for Multistate Systems," (with J.C. Hudson), Joint ORSA/TIMS Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 1981.
  24. "A Methodology for R & M Comparisons of Foreign and U.S. Military Truck," Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, January 1982 (Published in the Proceedings).
  25. "A General Purpose Solution Methodology of the Bus Location Problem," (with T. M. Maze et al.), the 1982 Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 1982 (Published in the Proceedings/ Record).
  26. "Quality and Productivity Improvement," Invited Presentation, Welded Steel Tube Institute, August 1984.
  27. "Never Ending Improvement in Quality," Invited Presentation, Milwaukee Chapter of American Society for Quality Control, September 1984.
  28. "Quality Engineering and Taguchi Methods," Invited Guest Speaker, Supplier's forum, Cleveland Section of American Society for Quality Control, Cleveland, September 1985.
  29. "Design of Experiment - Taguchi Methods," Invited Presentation, Ann Arbor Section, American Society for Quality Control, March 1986.
  30. "Quality Loss Function and Inspection," TMI Conference on Innovations in Quality, Detroit, Michigan, September 21-24, 1987 (Published in the Proceedings).
  31. "Economic Design of Specifications Based on Taguchi's Concept of Quality Loss Function," (with C.J. Wang), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, December 13-18, 1987 (Published in the Proceedings).
  32. "Product and Process Design Optimization by Design of Experiments Using Taguchi Methods," Invited Presentation, Society of Automotive Engineers Earth Moving Conference, Peoria, Illinois, April 1988 (Published by SAE).
  33. "Taguchi and Life Data," Invited Presentation, American Society for Quality Control, Automotive Division, Annual Quality and Reliability Workshop, Novi, Michigan, June 1988.
  34. "Recent Development in Quality Engineering," a series of four lectures at various companies and a university, invited by National Research Council, Taiwan, ROC, August 1988.
  35. "Optimum Specification Using Quality Loss Function," Concepts in Quality, Symposium and Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 15-17, 1988 (Published in the Proceedings).
  36. "Introduction to Reliability," Invited Presentation, American Society for Quality Control, Automotive Division Conference, March 1989.
  37. "Methodology for Tolerance Design Using Quality Loss Function," (with Raman and Pulat), Computers and Industrial Engineering Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 1990.
  38. "Reliability in Product Design and Testing," one week invited seminar, Goodyear Research and Development Center, Luxembourg, June 18-22, 1990 and also at ITESM, Centro de Calidad, Technological Institute, Monterey, Mexico, July 2-6, 1990.
  39. "Simultaneous Engineering and Robust Design," Seminar at GM Technical Center, Manufacturing Development and Advanced Engineering Staff, Warren, Michigan, February 21, 1991.
  40. "Interactive Partitioning Algorithm for Multiple Objective Linear Programming" (with M. Kang and S. Pulat), TIMS/ORSA Joint Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, May 12-15, 1991.
  41. "Quality Improvement Through Robust Design," 1991 International Industrial Engineering Conference, Detroit, Michigan, May 20-22, 1991.
  42. "Systems Engineering Approach for Quality Improvement," Invited Presentation, XIV Systems Engineering Meeting, Santiago, Chile, July 8-12, 1991.
  43. "Quality Engineering and Tolerance Design," Session Chair and Invited Presentation, TIMS - XXX - SOBRAPO XXIII Joint International Conference, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, July 15 -17, 1991.
  44. "Tolerance Design Based on Variance Reduction and Economic Optimization" (with G. Chen), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Anaheim, California, November 3-6, 1991.
  45. "Product and Process Design Optimization: Nonlinear Programming vs. Design of Experiments," Seminar at GM Technical Center, CPC Engineering, Warren Michigan, October 14, 1991.
  46. "Customer Driven Reliability Models for Multistate Coherent Systems" (with Ralph Boedigheimer). ORSA/TIME Joint National Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 26-29, 1992.
  47. "Reliability: Robustness Over Time," First IE Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-21, 1992.
  48. "Optimization Design of Dynamic Systems by Quality Engineering" (with G. Chen), IASTED International Conference on Reliability, Quality Control and Risk Assessment, Washington, D.C., November 1992.
  49. "Involving the Customer in the Development and Evaluation of Multistate Reliability Models" (with Ralph Boedigheimer), The 39th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, January 26-28, 1993.
  50. "Applications of Customer Driven Reliability Models" (with Ralph Boedigheimer), Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Los Angeles, California, May 26-27, 1993.
  51. "Reducing Variation and Quality Cost for Tolerance Design" (with B.R. Cho), Second Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Los Angeles, California, May 26-27, 1993.
  52. "Optimal Design of Specifications for On-Line Quality Control with Multiple Characteristics" (with B.R. Cho), ORSA/TIMS Joint Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, November 1-3, 1993.
  53. "Quality Evaluation by Quadratic Loss Function" (with B.R. Cho and T.B. Trafalis), Quality Leadership Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 19-20, 1994.
  54. "Design Optimization for Robustness in Static and Dynamic Systems" (with B.R. Cho and G. Chen), Third Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 18-19, 1994.
  55. "Design Optimization to Achieve Robustness for Static and Dynamic Systems" (with B.R. Cho and G. Chen), the Third IASTED International Conference, Washington, D.C., October 1994.
  56. "Robust Design and Manufacturing," An invited tutorial at the ORSA/TIMS Joint Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, October 23-26, 1994.
  57. "Reliability Engineering," Invited lecture, Society of Reliability Engineers, Michigan, November 16, 1994.
  58. "Reliability Engineering and Robust Design," Invited speaker at the special Ford Conference on Reliability and Robust Design, Dearborn, Michigan, November 17-18, 1994.
  59. "Reliability Evaluations for Multistate Systems" (with Ralph Boedigheimer), invited paper at the INFORMS National Meeting, Los Angeles, California, April 23-26, 1995.
  60. "Concurrent Engineering: Design and Implementation," Invited series of lectures at Production Research center, Lucky Goldstar (LG) Group, Seoul, Korea, June 28-30, 1995.
  61. "Recent Developments in Quality and Reliability Engineering," a series of eight invited lectures at China Aero Technology Establishment, Aviation Industries of China, July 5-13, 1995.
  62. "Customer Driven Reliability: Models, Testing and Improvement" (with Kai Yang), Invited speaker at Ford (FAO) Robustness Reliability Symposium, Dearborn, Michigan, October 9-10, 1995.
  63. "Quality Improvement by RSM Modeling for Robust Design" (with B.R. Cho and M.D. Phillips), 5th Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 18-20, 1996.
  64. "Integrated Product Testing: Methods and Management," International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) Annual Symposium, Seattle, Washington, October 14-18, 1996.
  65. "An Integrated Customer-Focused Research for Quality and Reliability," National Science Foundation (NSF-USA) and Foundation for Research Development (FRD-South Africa) Manufacturing Collaboration Workshop, March 19, 1997.
  66. "Customer Driven Reliability: Measures and System Models" invited seminar, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 11, 1997.
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