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What's New - October 2010
CALCE Offers Interactive Training with Innovative SARA® Reliability Assessment Tool
Sign up now to get hands-on experience with CALCE’s revolutionary reliability assessment tool, SARA®! CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Consortium (EPSC) Director Dr. Michael Osterman will lead a one-day workshop on the center’s one-of-a-kind physics-of-failure based simulation assisted reliability assessment software, SARA®, on October 18. SARA® uses physics-of-failure based principles and software to assess whether a part/system can meet defined life cycle requirements, and is used to support the CALCE Design for Reliability (DfRtm) assessment process, which allows design engineers to interactively make design changes and rapidly assess the impact of product reliability. SARA® software can also be used to assess life expectancy of electronic hardware under anticipated life cycle loading conditions, as well as under accelerated stress test conditions. Workshop attendees will learn about new features while using the software in a classroom environment. This workshop is free to CALCE consortium members. For more information on the upcoming SARA® workshop, please click here or contact Dr. Michael Osterman at osterman@calce.umd.edu. EPS Group to Present Latest Research, New Projects at Fall Technical Review
PHM Group Offers Two-Day Course on Application of PHM PHM Group to Share Research, Project Updates at October Technical Review Registration fees are waived for PHM Consortium member representatives. The agenda for the meeting will be displayed on the PHM group website (www.prognostics.umd.edu) soon. For more information on the PHM Group's 2010 Fall Technical Review, please click here or contact Prof. Michael Pecht at pecht@calce.umd.edu.
REGISTER NOW for Short Courses on Chinese Electronics Industry, Impact of Free Air Cooling
Reserve a seat today for the CALCE half-day short course on China’s emerging electronics industry! Hosted by China’s Electronics Industry co-authors, Michael Pecht and Leonard Zuga, this half-day course will address strategies for successfully engaging the Chinese electronics industry, fast emerging as the world’s leader at all levels, from research and design to manufacturing. Attendees will learn about strategies for engaging rapidly expanding Chinese companies, which now account for over 35% of the revenue of the global electronics industry; economic and political policies behind China's growth; the country’s increasing control over materials critical to Western consumer and military electronics; and much more! The course will be held Monday, October 18, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) on the University of Maryland College Park campus. Registration is $150 per attendee, and each attendee will receive a free copy of China’s Electronics Industry (2009 Edition). For more information, please click here or contact Joan Lee at joanyuan@calce.umd.edu. CALCE Short Course: Impact of Free Air Cooling on Information and Communication Technology Equipment
Is your organization prepared to handle off-hours equipment failures and spontaneous server crashes? Information and communication technology (ICT) malfunctions are among the most detrimental equipment failures an organization can face. One of the leading causes of these failures is overheating due to poorly air conditioned storage environments. Since early 2010, CALCE researchers, led by Senior Research Scientist Dr. Diganta Das, have been investigating a revolutionary method of regulating temperatures in ICT storage environments known as Free Air Cooling. Free Air Cooling uses ambient air to cool ICT equipment in data centers, base stations and other telecom infrastructures, and is increasingly used to improve energy efficiency for ICT equipment. The Center’s current research in Free Air Cooling applies theoretical and experimental approaches in identifying cooling-related equipment failures and determining energy-efficient methods of temperature regulation. Interested in learning about how Free Air Cooling can benefit your telecom infrastructure? Seats are still open for a one-day course on the “Impact of Free Air Cooling on Information and Communication Technology Equipment,” to be held Oct 18, 2010 at CALCE offices on the University of Maryland’s College Park Campus. This short course is an will introduce methods of free air cooling with an emphasis on the impact of free air cooling on equipment performance and reliability. Several topics related to fresh air cooling for information and communication technology purposes, including: Various methods for implementing of free air cooling; Optimal operating environments for equipment under free air cooling; and Equipment performance and reliability risks associated with free air cooling. For more information on this course, please contact Dr. Diganta Das at digudas@calce.umd.edu.
Dow Introduces Innovative Solar Shingle to CALCE
On August 3, members of Dow ’s Solar Solutions team visited CALCE to introduce their new POWERHOUSE™ Solar Shingle. Addressing CALCE faculty, investigators and students, Dow representatives presented an overview of the development, reliability testing and potential market distribution of this revolutionary technology. The Powerhouse Solar Shingle was designed to affordably incorporate solar energy cells directly into the design of commercial and residential building materials. Utilizing high-efficiency, CIGS-based, photovoltaic (PV) cells manufactured on a flexible substrate, the solar shingle integrates PV functionality into an asphalt roof-shingle form factor. With Powerhouse Solar Shingles in place, homeowners can generate more energy than consumed and significantly reduced energy costs. Currently, Powerhouse Solar Shingles have been installed in the roofing structure of Michigan’s first Zero Energy Home. After receiving an enthusiastic response from the CALCE audience, Dow representatives addressed questions of reliability and market share in the era where renewable energy sources are becoming increasingly prominent. Members of the team noted that the Powerhouse Shingle has been subjected to a number of reliability tests, including long-term UV and energy cycling tests, and demonstrated a reliability on par with standard asphalt roofing shingles. Dow representatives also stated that Powerhouse Shingles are expected to endure a life cycle equal to that of standard shingles, approximately 17 years. For more information on Dow’s Powerhouse Solar Shingles and their current work in solar solutions, please visit http://www.dowsolar.com/. For more information on the Dow’s visit to CALCE, please contact Dr. Diganta Das at digudas@calce.umd.edu.
PHM Group Welcomes New Faculty
This summer, The CALCE PHM Group welcomed new faculty research member, Dr. Nikhil Lakhkar. Lakhkar received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include prognostics and health management, lead-free product reliability and high heat flux cooling of electronics. During his studies at UT Arlington he also worked at IBM’s Advanced Thermal Laboratories in Poughkeepsie, NY, and at Maxim Integrated Products, Dallas, TX. His technical publications include papers on thermal management, lead-free electronics, and thermoelectrics. For more information on Dr. Lakhkar and his work with CALCE, please contact him at nlakhkar@calce.umd.edu.
CALCE Expands with New MEMS Consortium On July 22, The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), the world’s largest electronic products and systems research center, celebrated the founding of its newest consortium, the MEMS Consortium (MEMSC), with a informative and lively kickoff meeting. Welcoming a number of attendees from electronics industry and research communities, MEMSC introduced its unique mission to an enthusiastic audience. Established in early 2010 by Dr. Ravi Doraiswami, MEMSC was designed to expand the center’s focus beyond electronic reliability, failure analysis and prognostics. MEMSC aims to provide solutions to industry-level issues with micro-electro mechanical (MEMS) components and systems, and address challenges in a range of fields, including healthcare, energy harvesting and prognostics and health management (PHM). MEMSC will explore innovative approaches to predicting system failure. MEMSC will also extend its expertise to investigating the reliability of bio-medical instruments and developing BioMEMS sensors for healthcare applications, such as efficient drug approval. Beyond system reliability and healthcare applications, MEMSC will focus its energies on researching wireless networking and the uses of remote monitoring in studying systems during field operations. MEMSC will also develop guidelines and standards for RF MEMS, BioMEMS and microfluidic MEMS reliability. Using the CALCE facilities as a launch pad, MEMSC will initiate a number of diverse research projects, including: Evolving design methodologies for MEMS sensors; Developing novel technologies for next-gen BioMedical MEMS; Implementing MEMS technology with Prognostic Models in Microelectronics Systems; and much more! To learn more, visit the MEMSC website at: http://www.calce.umd.edu/MEMS/.
Upcoming Webinars
On November 9, Prof. Patrick McCluskey will examine reliability issues related to power electronics used in energy storage applications. Prof. McCluskey is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he is also Assistant Director for Component Research at the CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Consortium. He is the principal investigator for topics related to computer-aided risk assessment of microelectronics, electronic packaging design for high temperature and high power applications, and commercial component insertion into high reliability applications. For more information, please click here or contact Dr. McCluskey at mcclupa@calce.umd.edu. |
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