REAL (Reliability Engineering Automation Laboratory) promotes state of the art research and education related to reliability of engineering structures and systems.

Current research activities include: 

• Uncertainty quantification (UQ), predictive modeling,  reliability analysis and risk management;
• Engineering design under uncertainty; 
• Structural health monitoring, prognostics and health management (PHM);
• Condition-based maintenance (CBM), maintainability.

Postdoc Research Associate and GRA Positions Available

REAL NEWS:

• Dr. Wang recieves award (CMMI-1200597) from National Science Foundation (NSF)  for the project titled " Concurrent Design for Functional Reliability and Failure Prognosis of Complex Engineered Systems ". This 3-year award will support Dr. Wang and his  students to create new system design theory and tools that not only ensure system functional reliability, but also enable function failure prognosis. (04/16/2012)

• Research article from REAL, titled "Copula-Based Statistical Health Grade System against Mechanical Faults of Power Transformers" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Trans.Power Delivery. (4/15/2012)

• Research article from REAL, titled "Ensemble of Data-Driven Prognostic Algorithms with Weight Optimization and K- Fold Cross Validation " has been accepted for publication by Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety. (3/1/2012)

• REAL recieves research grant from Spirit AeroSytem Inc. to continue the Phase II study of the project titled "Spirit Reliability-based Design Model". The kick-off meeting is held in Wallace Hall 111A at WSU on Jan. 20.2012. (01/15/2012)

• Research article from REAL authored by Prasanna and Yibin, titled "Deep Belief Network Based State Classification for Structural Health Diagnostics" has been accepted by the IEEE AeroConference. Students will present their research findings in March 2012 @ Big Sky, MT. (12/20/2011)

• Research article from REAL, titled "A Generic Probabilistic Framework for Structural Health Prognostic and Uncertainty Management", has been accepted by Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. (11/15/2011)

• Research article from REAL, titled "Resilience-Driven System Design for Complex Engineering System", has been accepted by Journal of Mechanical Design. (10/15/2011)

• Dr. Wang receives the Strategic Engineering Research Fellowship (SERF) for the new research initiative in WSU College of Engineering on tackling the efficiency degradation of organic solar cells. The project titled "Toward the Design of Organic Solar Cell Materials-  Phase I:  Efficiency Degradation Prognostics" will start on June 1, 2011.   (04/28/2011)

• Congratulations to REAL members, Mr. Gopi K. Sadilingam and Mr. Dwarakanath Jaganath, for successfully passing their master degree defenses; (04/27/2011)

• Dr.Wang receives the FIRST AWARD from the NSF Kansas EPSCoR Program for the project titled "Reducing Use Phase Environmental Impacts of Wind Energy System through Sustainable Operation and Maintenance". (04/25/2011)

• Research Paper from REAL, titled "A Generized Complementary Intersection Method for System Reliability Analysis and Design," is accepted for the publication in Journal of Mechanical Design; (04/20/2011)

• REAL receives the research grant from Spirit AeroSystem Inc., for the project titled "Spirit Reliability-Based Design Model". This 3-year project will tackle several challenges in aircraft design for reliability and develop a reliability-based design model for Spirit. The kick off meeting for  Phase I (Year 2011, $100K) research will be held in April 15 at 2:00pm at EB120K conference room; (04/02/2011)

• Research paper from REAL, titled "System Reliability Assessment with Multilevel Component Supply Chain Network", has been accepted for the publication for 2011 IIE Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC); (03/08/2011)

• Congratulations to Prasanna, a PhD student in REAL, for wining the award at the 2011 Capital Graduate Research Summit (CGRS) held at Topeka on February 17th, for his research on "Multi-Sensor Health Diagnostics Using Deep Belief Network Based State Classification"; (02/18/2011)

• REAL receives the University Creative/Research Project Awards (UCRA) from Office of Research Administration (ORA) for the research project titled "Experimental Study of System Reliability and Energy Efficiency for Life Cycle Sustainable Manufacturing Planning". (02/04/2011)