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Contributions of Reliability Engineering Centre
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING CENTRE
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
West Bengal-721302
7th
February, 2014
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Preface
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is the first institute in India that
identified the need of interdisciplinary branches of engineering such as Reliability
Engineering. The aim of establishing the centre was to impart knowledge in such
interdisciplinary areas so that our engineers are at par with the world wide trend
in engineering education and research. The Reliability Engineering Centre came
into existence in 1983.
When we look back the history of the centre, we understand that it is a
unique centre of its kind in the fraternity of the engineering education in IITs in
particular and in India in general. Students of almost all branches of engineering
are encouraged to join the masters programme (M.Tech.) in ReliabilityEngineering which was started in the academic year 1982-83. This programme is
the first P.G. program in Reliability Engineering in India.
Since its inception, the centre has been conducting academic programs in
M.Tech., and Ph.D. apart from offering certain electives to all other branches of
U. G. students of the Institute. Today, Reliability Engineering Centre is a small
family in terms of number of members. Presently, we have 4 faculty members, 17
M.Tech., and 15 Ph.D. students. Ph.D. degrees to 29 students, M.S. degrees to 2student, and M.Tech. degrees to about 350 students have been conferred from
the centre. The alumni of the centre have contributed in several mission
programmes of national importance and also in the growth of industry in India
and abroad. We are happy to mention that our students for still keeping this
trend.
The faculty associated with this programme has published several books
which are widely used by researchers worldwide. They have also collectively
published over 450 papers in reputed international journals like Micro-electronics
& Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering and System
Safety, Quality and Reliability Management etc. They have been contributing in
the capacity of editors and reviewers of reputed journals in reliability engineering
and allied areas. The faculty and students are actively associated in research and
consultancy projects sponsored by MHRD, DST, DRDO, ISRO, Indian Railways,
NPCIL, BARC, DRDL, and international sponsors like DNV Norway etc.
Centre has been periodically reviewing its academic and researchprogrammes. The centre has organized a peer review committee meeting on 11
April, 2011 to critically analyze the academic courses, research, laboratory,
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publication and other activities. The peer review committee consisting of Prof.
Ashok Deshpande, University of Pune, Dr. P.V. Varde, BARC Mumbai, Prof. M.K.
Tiwari, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Prof. N.K. Kishore,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor K.K. Ray, Department of
Metallurgical Engineering, Prof. U.C. Gupta, Department of Mathematics and
faculty members of the Centre brainstormed various issues and suggested
recommendations for their implementation.
We have great pleasure to announce that Reliability Engineering Centre is
organizing the Third Research Scholars Day on February 07, 2014. We celebrate
this day in our academic system to acknowledge the contribution of our ex and
current research scholars, including scholars doing M.S. programmes in achieving
and retaining the academic excellence and the reputation of our unique centre.This year we have poster presentations by our current research scholars and M.S.
students and seminars by our current and ex-research scholars. We have tried to
celebrate this important event in an informal way so that better and free
interaction can happen in a cordial environment.
We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to all the ex-faculty
members, staffs, research students and our present colleagues and students for
their contribution in building up this centre to the present status. Due to their
efforts and hard work, reliability engineering has become a known discipline in
almost all industry and other organizations in India. I wish that more faculty
members join the centre and it climbs many more steps and significantly
contribute in the area of reliability engineering in this year and thereafter. I also
thank the IIT director and all higher authorities for extending their support and
timely advice without which the centre would not have achieved its present
status.
Research/MS scholars of the centre have shown great interest in organizing
this event and have put lot of effort to make this a memorable day.
I wish grand success for the Research Scholars Day.
V.N.A. Naikan
Head
REC, IIT Kharagpur
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CONTENTS
1 Overview of the Centre ...................................................................................1
2 Vision of the Centre.........................................................................................1
3 Mission of the Centre ......................................................................................1
4 Details of Present Academic Programs ...........................................................2
5 Syllabi & Curricula of present programs..........................................................2
6 No. of Students Completed M. Tech. (in last 5 years) .....................................2
7 List of Research Fellows...................................................................................3
7.1 Current Scholars (Ph.D. (15) and M.S. (1) Ongoing) ...............................3
7.2 Ph.D. Recipients......................................................................................6
7.3 MS Recipient...........................................................................................78 Recent Publications (Last 5 years)...................................................................8
8.1 Publications in International/National Journals .....................................8
8.1.1 During year 2013-2014.......................................................................8
8.1.2 During year 2012-2013.......................................................................9
8.1.3 During year 2011-2012.....................................................................10
8.1.4 During year 2010-2011.....................................................................11
8.1.5 During year 2009-2010.....................................................................11
8.1.6 During year 2008-2009.....................................................................138.2 Publications in Conferences..................................................................15
8.2.1 During year 2012-2013.....................................................................15
8.2.2 During year 2011-2012.....................................................................15
8.2.3 During year 2010-2011.....................................................................16
8.2.4 During year 2009-2010.....................................................................17
8.2.5 During year 2008-2009.....................................................................18
9 Books/Book Chapters Published ...................................................................19
10 Editorial/Review Board Contributions...........................................................1911 Conferences Organized by the Centre...........................................................21
12 Sponsored Research & Consultancy Projects (Last 5 Years)..........................21
12.1 Sponsored Research Projects ...............................................................21
12.2 Consultancy Projects.............................................................................22
13 Short Term Training Programmes organized in last 5 years..........................23
14 Resources of the Centre ................................................................................24
14.1 Faculty Members ..................................................................................24
14.2 Ex-Faculty Members .............................................................................24
14.3 Technical Staff.......................................................................................24
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14.4 Office Staff............................................................................................24
14.5 Laboratories .........................................................................................25
14.6 Library...................................................................................................25
15 Placement Scenario of the Centre ................................................................25
16 Alumni of the Centre.....................................................................................25
17 Future Directions...........................................................................................26
18 Laboratory Facilities ......................................................................................26
19 Ex Faculty of Reliability Engineering Centre..................................................29
19.1 Prof. K.B. Misra .....................................................................................29
19.2 Prof. R.B. Misra.....................................................................................32
19.3 Prof. A.S.R. Murthy ...............................................................................33
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1 Overview of the Centre
Reliability Engineering Centre, established in 1983, is the first, only and unique
centre of excellence in India offering Masters and research programs in
Reliability Engineering. In the present scenario of global competition, Reliability
Engineering plays a vital role in design, maintenance, safety/security and
management of engineering systems. Reliability is considered one of the most
important performance assessment index for most of the industrial products,
processes and services. Reliability Engineering focuses on systematic study and
analysis of failures, and developing methods for eliminating them or at least
minimizing their occurrence with minimum damage to system and environment.
It is truly interdisciplinary in nature since failures are not limited to any particular
types of engineering systems, processes and services. It is in effect a
specialization sought by all engineering practitioners and researchers. Reliability
Engineering is an inter-disciplinary area and plays an important role at different
stages of product life cycle starting from conceptual design, manufacturing,
operation, maintenance, replacements to disposal. It systematically designs,
studies failure process, finds out the root causes, suggests improvements and
quantifies the product performance over a period of its mission time in contrastto the conventional engineering branches, which mainly focus on design of
systems for certain specific functional requirements. But in Reliability
engineering, students are trained on how to design, predict, estimate, and
demonstrate performance of a product throughout its mission life for failure free
operation, which is also safe and easy to maintain deriving maximum benefits.
2 Vision of the CentreThe Reliability Engineering Centre embodies to act as a repository of knowledge
and practices covering the broad domain of Reliability, Availability,
Maintainability, Safety and Quality Engineering and to nurture the students
through teaching, research and industrial partnership.
3 Mission of the Centre
Achieve global excellence and create local impact in research and teaching.
Design and develop contemporary courses in line with the new developments in
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academics internationally as well as tailor-made for the companies to meet their
emerging requirements.
Enhance the analytical skill and problem solving ability of the students
through innovative design and conduct of teaching, laboratory experiments, casestudies, seminars and colloquium.
Pursue research in the emerging fields of Reliability Engineering through
enhancing core competence internally as well as through collaboration with
internationally renowned academic institutions worldwide.
Interact with industries through consultancy services for real life problem
solving.
4 Details of Present Academic Programs
Name of the Program Duration (yrs) Admission Process
M Tech 2 GATE, QIP, Industry sponsored
MS 2 Under Sponsored Project
PhD 3+ Institute Scholar, QIP, Industry Sponsored
5 Syllabi & Curricula of present programs
The Syllabi and Curricula were last revised in the year 2009 by following the
guidelines laid by an Institute-wide committee.
6 No. of Students Completed M. Tech. (in last 5 years)
Year No of M. Tech. students
2013 08
2012 10
2011 05
2010 18
2009 16
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7 List of Research Fellows
7.1 Current Scholars (Ph.D. (15) and M.S. (1) Ongoin
Name Degree
M. Karthikeyan received his AMIE (IEI) fro
from BITS Pilani. He is currently working
Deputy Manager Quality Control, Dept of
Bangalore. He successfully completed
assignments as project Manager, contin
Manager for eight more satellites (Series o
satellites) and prestigious Chandrayaan-2 s
has been awarded for completion of GSAT-1
His present research is on Reliability analy
Machine tools. He has published three N
papers on Reliability improvement and a pa
to a Conference. He is also co-author for t
papers.
Purobi Patowary received her M. Tech.
Systems from IIT Kharagpur from the depaEngineering in 2002 and her B.E. (Hons) in El
Engineering College in 1991. She currently s
Electrical and Instrumentation Engine
Engineering College, Guwahati. Her current
are related to Power System Reliability.
V.M. Shafiullah Hussain received his B.E.
1997) from VIT, Vellore and M.E. (Productio
Annamalai University, Chidambaram. His ahis thesis is Reliability Modeling of Rotary
also having research interest in Relia
automated material handling systems and
He published his research articles in IJPE an
Reliability & Safety Engineering. He curr
Assistant Professor in National Institute of
Technology, Ranchi.
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Kolkata and M.S.
as Scientist F &
Space, LPSC/ISRO,
seven satellites
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2 satellite projects.
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degree in Power
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(Mechanical Engg.,
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Foundry and Forge
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Heeralal Gargama received his B. E. (Biomedi
form SGSITS Indore) in 2007 and M. T
Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India) in 200
interests include applications of soft computi
genetic algorithms and neural networks) in relibased design optimization and electromagnetic
Manjubala Bisi received her M. TECH degree in
Software Systems from NITTTR, Kolkata in 200
involved with academics around eight years an
Computer Science and Engineering subjects
System, Software Engineering, Parallel and Dist
Compiler Design, Database Management S
Undergraduate students. She has research inte
of Software Reliability Modeling and Artificial N
S. Fatima received her B. Tech (Manufacturi
from JSS Noida (UPTU) in 2008 and a Masters D
IIT Kharagpur in 2011, in the areas of jute based
noise control. She has five years of experien
vibration control, underwater acoustics and
materials for noise control. She has worked on
for industries where product noise has been
natural materials. She has been a recipient of t
Student Travel Award to attend and participa
International Congress on Sound and Vibrati
Bangkok and also the best research paper
Acoustical Society of India. Her research is i
machinery condition monitoring.
Esha Datta has received a bachelor and a m
computer science. Her broad research areand Security of Information Systems. She is curr
the area of Network Reliability. Her research i
the Department of Science and Technology,
India through the INSPIRE fellowship. She is al
the IEEE student chapter at IIT Kharagpur.
Rajkumar S received his B. E. (ECE, 2009), M. E.
Anna University. He worked as a program
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S. Rajarajan received his bachelor degree in electronics and
communication engineering from Panimalar Engineering
College, Affiliated to Anna University, Tamilnadu, India in 2005
and the M.Tech degree in communication systems from SRM
University Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu. His research interests
include multiple antenna communications and performance
analysis of the wireless systems.
Sajjade Faisal Mustafa Zille Ilahi received his B.E. (E&C, 1997)
Dr. B.A. Marathwada University Aurangabad and M. Tech.
(Reliability, 2007) from IIT-Bombay. He is currently working at
ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore. His area of work is Reliability
Analyses and Test & Evaluation of on-board computer systemof spacecrafts.
T. CH. Anil Kumar has completed his M.E in Advanced Design &
Manufacturing from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2008.
He worked as Project Assistant (Level-III) for two years in SERC,
CSIR Campus, Chennai, TamilNadu. Thereafter, he is working as
Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering of
Vignan University, Vadlamudi, AndhraPradesh till date. His
broad areas of research are Reliability centered Diagnostics and
Prognostics of Rolling element Bearings, Finite Element
Analysis.
Govindarajulu Eedara has completed his M.Tech in CAD/CAM
from JNTUK, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh in 2010. He is working
as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering
of Vignan University, Vadlamudi, Andhra Pradesh till date. His
broad areas of research are Repairability and Reliabilityimprovement of Mechanical systems.
Krishna Kumar Dadsena received his B. E. (Mechanical, 2010)
from Govt. Engineering College, Raipur (C.G.), M. Tech. (IEM,
2013) from NIT Tiruchirappalli with Honors. He has presented
three papers in international conferences and one national
conference, respectively. One of conference paper has
published in IEEE Explore.
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Durbadal Chattaraj did his B.Tech (CSE) and M.Tech (CSE) from
West Bengal University of Technology in the year of 2006 and
2010, respectively. He worked for Boden Software Services Pvt.
Ltd. (20062008) as an Assosiate Software Engineer. He did his P.G.
Diploma in Clinical Data Management (2008) from ICR, India. He
has worked for Narula Institute of Technology (2011 2013) as an
Assistant Professor of CSE Department. His research interest is in
the area of network security, cloud security, network reliability,
software reliability, big-data, reliability modelling and prediction
models.
Gurmeet Singh completed his B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering from College Of Engineering Roorkee and M. Tech
in Condition Monitoring Control and Protection of ElectricalApparatus from NIT Hamirpur. He has published 2 papers Int.
Journals, 3 papers in IEEE Conferences, 1 paper in Int. Conference,
and 2 papers in national Conferences. His Research Areas include
Automation, Embedded System, Electrical Machines and
Transformer Fault Diagnosis.
Suparna Chakraborty (Pursuing M.S.) received her B. Tech in
Electronics and Communication Engineering from BITM,
Santiniketan, West Bengal, India in the year 2010. Her current areaof research is communication network reliability.
7.2 Ph.D. Recipients
Year Ph.D. Recipient Thesis Title
2014 N. Padmavathy Reliability Measures and Evaluation of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
2010 Dilip Kumar Yadav Software Reliability Modeling and Prediction Using Fuzzy Logic
2011 Ajeet K. Pandey Software Reliability Assurance through Fault Prediction Models
2011 Trithankar Gayen Reliability Assessment of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Software
Components
2010 Rao Meesala
Srinivasa
A Markov System Dynamics Simulation based System Reliability
and Availability Modeling
2009 Srivastava Vivek Probabilistic Power System Planning Using Soft Computing
Methods
2009 Misra Rajesh Minimal Cutset-Based Evaluation of Network Reliability
Measures2009 D. E. Vijay Kumar Reliability Assurance of Process Equipment through Predictive
Maintenance
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Year Ph.D. Recipient Thesis Title
2009 A. Syamsunder Segmented Point Process Models for Maintained Systems
2008 K.S. Kumar Early Software Reliability and Quality Prediction
2006 P.N.S. Rao Design of Optimal Maintenance Polices Dealing with
Deterioration for Production System2006 S.P.K. Viswanath Software Reliability Prediction Using Neural Networks
2006 N.K. Goyal On Some Aspects of Reliability Analysis and Design of
Communication Networks
2006 Rani Rajanna Reliability and Resource Optimization Models for Software
Development Process
2002 S.K. Chaturvedi Reliability Evaluation of Large and Complex Systems
1998 A. Radha Krishna Mechanical/Structural Reliability Evaluation in Fatigue Wear and
Combined Load Situations
1997 S. Chatterjee Probabilistic and Fuzzy Aspects of Software Reliability Analysis
1996 Suprasad Amari Reliability, Risk, and Fault Tolerance of Complex Systems
1996 A.K. Azad Some Aspects of Generation Expansion Planning
1996 C. Tripathy Dependability Analysis of Parallel Computer Interconnection
Networks
1996 A.K. Sen Reliability Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis (RCF) of
Traction Motors
1994 S. Patra Reliability Analysis of Multistate Complex System
1994 V.N.A. Naikan Industrial Productivity Improvement Through Reliability andCondition Monitoring
1993 P.T.R. Nambiar R. A. M. and Fault Diagnosis for Diesel Engine Plants
1993 A.K. Ray Enhancement of the Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence based
Diagnostic Systems
1993 K.P. Soman Probabilistic Uncertainty and Fuzzy Imprecision on Reliability and
Risk Management
1990 Usha Sharma On Some Aspects of Reliability Design of Complex Systems
1987 A.K. Verma Expert Fault Diagnosis & Reliability Study of Electromechanical
Systems
1987 M.A. Samad Reliability Evaluation of Complex Systems
7.3 MS Recipient
Year M.S. Recipient Thesis Title
2008 N. Bhattacharya Software Reliability modelling and testing for high risk
applications
2014 Swajeeth Pilot P. Failure Analysis of Sensor Systems
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8 Recent Publications (Last 5 years)
8.1 Publications in International/National Journals
8.1.1 During year 2013-2014
1. H. Gargama, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.K. Thakur, Reliability-Based Design
Optimization Scheme For Designing Electromagnetic Shielding Structures,
Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Accepted, 2014.
2. P. Patowary and N.K. Goyal, Security Monitoring and Assessment of an
Electrical Power System, International Journal of Performability Engineering,
Accepted, 2014.
3. H. Gargama, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.K. Thakur, Reliability-based design of
Multi-layered composites for electromagnetic shielding applications,
International Journal of Performability Engineering, Accepted, 2014.
4. P.S.S. Budhavarapu, S.K. Chaturvedi, D. Garg, and S. Chakravorty, Multi-
phase System Reliability Analysis using Excel, International Journal of
Performability Engineering, Accepted, 2014.
5. V. Sriramdas, S.K. Chaturvedi, and H. Gargama "Fuzzy arithmetic based
reliability allocation approach during early design and development",Journal
of Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 41(7), pp. 3444-3449, 2014.
6. S.M. Dewal and N.K. Goyal, Out of range error probability assessment for
any computer program, International Journal of Reliability and Safety, Vol.
7(4), 332-357, 2013.
7. T. Chandrasheker and N.K. Goyal, An approach to evaluate multiple node
pair reliability for simultaneous capacity requirements, International Journal
of Performability Engineering, Vol. 9(4), pp. 357-366, 2013.
8. V.M.S. Hussain and V.N.A. Naikan, Reliability Modeling of Rotary Systems
Subjected to Imbalance, International Journal of Performability Engineering,
Vol. 9(4), pp. 423-432, 2013.
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8.1.2 During year 2012-2013
9. H. Gargama, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.K. Thakur, Reliability-based Design
Optimization of Broadband Microwave Absorbers, Journal of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Vol. 27(11), pp. 1407-1418, 2013.
10. M. Sarma, Storing, Developing, Editing and Using a Dictionary TRIE, World
Intellectual Patent Organisation, Pub. No. WO/2013/050225, IPC: G06F
17/27 (2006.01), 2013.
11. N. Padmavathy and S.K. Chaturvedi, Evaluation of mobile ad hoc network
reliability using propagation-based link reliability model, Journal of
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 115, pp. 1-9, 2013.
12. S.P. Panchangam and V.N.A. Naikan, Reliability Analysis Of Temperature
Sensor System, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety
Engineering, Vol. 20(1), pp. (1350003) 1-20, 2013.
13. S.K. Chaturvedi and N. Padmavathy, The Influence of Scenario Metrics on
Network Reliability of Mobile Ad Hoc Network, International Journal of
Performability Engineering, Vol. 9(1), pp. 61-74, 2013.
14. S. Fatima, S.G. Dastidar, A.R. Mohanty, and V.N.A. Naikan, Technique for
optimal placement of transducers for fault detection in rotating machines,
Proc IMechE Part O: J Risk and Reliability, Vol. 227(2) pp. 119131, 2013.
15. A. Syamsundar, K. Mualidharan and V.N.A. Naikan, General Repair Models
for Maintained Systems, Sri Lankan Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 12, pp.
117-143, 2012.
16. A.K. Pandey, and N.K. Goyal, A Fuzzy Model for Early Software Quality
Prediction and Module Ranking, International Journal of performability
Engineering, Vol. 8(6), pp. 689-698, 2012.
17. B. Mahanty, V.N.A. Naikan and T. Nath, System Dynamics Approach for
Modeling Cost of Quality, International Journal of Performability
Engineering, Vol. 8(6), pp. 625-634, 2012.
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18. D.K. Yadav, S.K. Chaturvedi and R.B. Misra, Early Software Defects Prediction
Using Fuzzy Logic, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol
8(4), pp. 399-408, 2012.
19. K.K. Singh and S.K. Chaturvedi, Reliability Allocation for Fault TolerantSoftware, International Journal of Engineering, Vol. 1(5), pp. 1-9, 2012.
20. M. Bisi and N.K. Goyal, Software Reliability Prediction using Neural Network
with Encoded Input, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 47
(22), pp. 46-52, 2012.
21. V.N.A. Naikan, J. Majumdar and B.K. Vijaykumar, Research Trends in Quality
Engineering and Management, International Journal of Performability
Engineering, Vol. 8(6), pp. 587-600, 2012.
22. V.N.A. Naikan, Guest Editorial-Special Issue on New Trends in Quality
Engineering and Management, International Journal of Performability
Engineering, Vol. 8(6), pp. 585-586, 2012.
8.1.3 During year 2011-2012
23. H. Gargama, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.K. Thakur, On the Design and Reliability
Analysis of Electromagnetic Absorbers Using Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm
and Monte Carlo Simulation, Progress In Electromagnetic Research B, Vol.
43, pp. 169-187, 2012.
24. H. Gargama, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.K. Thakur, Design and optimization of
multilayered electromagnetic shield using a real-coded genetic algorithm,
Progress In Electromagnetic Research B, Vol. 39, pp. 241-246, 2012.
25. S.K. Chaturvedi, S.H. Basha, S.V. Amari, and M.J. Zuo, Reliability Analysis ofGeneralized Multi-State k-out-of-n Systems, Proc. IMechE Part O: J. Risk and
Reliability, Vol. 226(3), pp. 327-336, 2012.
26. H. Gargama, and S. K. Chaturvedi, Criticality Assessment Models for Failure
Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis Using Fuzzy Logic, IEEE Transactions on
Reliability, Vol. 60, Issue. 1, pp. 102 110, 2011.
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36. A. Syamsundar and V.N.A. Naikan, Sequential Detection of Change Points for
Maintained Systems Using Segmented Models, International Journal of
Quality and Reliability Engineering Vol. 25, Issue 6, pp 739-757, 2009.
37. A. Syamsundar and V.N.A. Naikan, Mathematical modelling of maintained
systems using point processes, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics,
Vol. 20, Issue 3, pp. 275-301, 2009.
38. K.V. Edwin, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.W. Deshpande, Maintenance of Industrial
Equipment-Degree of Certainty with Fuzzy Modelling using Predictive
Maintenance, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management,
Vol. 26, Issue 2, pp. 196-211, 2009.
39. K.V. Edwin and S.K. Chaturvedi, True Degradation Estimation of Industrial
Equipment with Fuzzy Sets: A Case Study, International Journal on Risk and
Reliability Part O, IMechE, Vol. 223, Issue 2, pp. 167-179, 2009.
40. M.S. Rao and V.N.A. Naikan, A Managerial tool for Reliability analysis using
a novel Markov System Dynamics (MSD) approach, International Journal of
Management Science and Engineering Management, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 230-
240, 2009.
41. M.S. Rao and V.N.A. Naikan, A Markov System Dynamics (MSD) based
Reliability and Availability analysis of a process industry, International
Journal of Communications in Dependability and Quality, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp.
26-49, 2009.
42. M.S. Rao and V.N.A. Naikan, A Novel Markov System Dynamic Framework
for Reliability Analysis of Systems, International Journal of Economic QualityControl, Vol. 23, Issue 1, pp. 1-16, 2009.
43. R. Mishra and S.K. Chaturvedi, A Cutsets based Unified Framework to
Evaluate Network Reliability Measures, IEEE Transaction on Reliability, Vol.
56, Issue 4, pp. 658-666, 2009.
44. R. Mishra and S.K. Chaturvedi, Global Reliability Evaluation using g-Minimal
Cutsets, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 5, Issue 3,
pp. 251-258, 2009.
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45. S.K. Chaturvedi and R. Mishra, An Efficient Approach to Enumerate SCG
arising in CRNR Evaluation, Quality Technology and Quantitative
Management - an International Journal. (Special Issue: Statistical Reliability
Modeling and Optimization), Vol. 6, pp. 43-54, 2009.
46. T. Gayen and R.B. Misra, Reliability assessment of Elementary COTS
software component, International Journal of Recent Trends in
Engineering, Vol. 2, pp. 196-200, 2009.
8.1.6 During year 2008-2009
47. D. Kundu, M. Sarma, D. Samanta, and R. Mall, System testing for object-
oriented systems with test case prioritization, Software Testing, Verificationand Reliability, Vol. 19 (4), pp. 297-333, 2009.
48. K.S. Kumar and R.B. Misra, Metrics Based Early Software Reliability
Prediction, International Journal on Advances in Theory, Applications and
Practices in Quality and Reliability, 2009.
49. K.V. Edwin and S. K. Chaturvedi, True Degradation Estimation of Industrial
Equipment with Fuzzy Sets: A Case Study, Proceedings of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 223, pp. 1-
13, 2009.
50. M. Sarma and R. Mall, Automatic generation of test specifications for
coverage of system state transitions, Information and Software Technology,
Vol. 51(2), pp. 418-432, 2009.
51. M.S. Rao and V.N.A. Naikan, A Markov System Dynamics (MSD) Approach
for Reliability Analysis, International Journal of Communications in
Dependability and Quality, Vol. 11, Issue 3, pp. 17-30, 2009.
52. P.N.S. Rao and V.N.A. Naikan, An Algorithm for Simultaneous Optimization
of Parameters of Condition-based Preventive Maintenance, Structural
Health Monitoring, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 83-94, 2009.
53. V. Shrivastava and R.B. Misra A Novel Approach of Input variable selection
for ANN Based Long Term Load Forecasting 2008, IEEE Explorer, pp. 1-5, 2009.
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54. R. Mishra and S.K. Chaturvedi, An Efficient Approach to Enumerate SCG
arising in CRNR Evaluation, International Journal of Quality Technology and
Quantitative Management, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 43-54, 2009.
55. R. Mishra and S.K. Chaturvedi, Comments on: An Improved Algorithm for
Connectivity Analysis of Distribution Networks, Int. Journal of Reliability
Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 94, Issue 3, pp. 783, 2009.
56. Rani and R.B. Misra, Modeling the economics of software testing to assure
desired reliability , Special issue on Software Reliability Techniques and
Applications, 2009.
57. A. Syamsundar and V.N.A. Naikan, A Proportional Hazard Segmented modelfor maintained systems, IMeche Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 222,
Issue 4, pp. 643-654, 2008.
58. A. Syamsundar and V.N.A. Naikan, Hierarchical Segmented Point Process
Models with multiple change points for Maintained Systems, International
Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 15, pp. 261-
304, 2008.
59. K.V. Edwin, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.W. Deshpande, Failure Probability
Estimation using Fuzzy Fault Tree Analysis with PDM Data in Process Plants,
International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 271-
284, 2008.
60. K.V. Edwin and S.K. Chaturvedi, Reliability Estimation of Complex Technical
Systems with Dependency Modeling: A Fuzzy Approach,Journal of
Uncertain System, Vol. 2, Issue 4, pp. 280-288, 2008.
61. K.K. Saravana, R.B. Misra, and N.K. Goyal, Development of Fuzzy Software
Operational Profile International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety
Engineering, Vol. 15, Issue 6, pp. 587-591, 2008.
62. M. Sarma and R. Mall, System state coverage through automatic test case
generation, International Journal of Information and Communication
Technology, Vol. 1(3-4), pp. 347-372, 2008.
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63. P.N.S. Rao and V.N.A. Naikan, An Optimal Maintenance Policy for
Compressor of a Gas Turbine Power Plant,ASME Journal for Engineering for
Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 130, Issue 2, pp. 0218011-0218015, 2008.
64. T. Gayan and R.B. Misra, Reliability Bounds Prediction of COTS Component
Based Software Application, International Journal of Computer Science and
Network Security, Vol. 8, pp 219-228, 2008.
8.2 Publications in Conferences
8.2.1 During year 2012-2013
1. D.K. Yadav, S.K. Chaturvedi, and R.B. Misra, Forecasting time-between-failures of software using fuzzy time series approach, Conference of Fuzzy
Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) 2012, Annual Meeting of the North
American, 6th Aug, 2012.
2. S. Ghosh, D. Samanta, and M. Sarma, Cost of error correction quantification
with Bengali text transcription, 4th International Conference on Intelligent
Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), IEEE, 2012.
8.2.2 During year 2011-2012
3. E.V. Kumar and S.K. Chaturvedi, Equipment health management through
information fusion for reliability, Conference of Reliability and
Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), IEEE, pp. 1-8, 2011.
4. E.V. Kumar, A. Shyamsundar, S.K. Chaturvedi, Equipment degradation
monitoring for sustained reliability, Conference of Reliability and
Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), IEEE, pp. 1-7, 2011.
5. H. Gargama, S.K. Chaturvedi, and A.K. Thakur Electromagnetic Interference
Shielding Design Using Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm and Reliability
Evaluation in X-Band, International Conference on SocProS 2011, Series:
AISC, Springer, Vol. 131, pp. 317328, 2011.
6. N. Padmavathy and S.K. Chaturvedi, Evaluation of Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Reliability using Propagation-based Link Reliability Model, The 10th
International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, 2011.
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7. S. Maiti, D. Samanta, S.R. Das, and M. Sarma, Language independent icon-
based interface for accessing internet, 1st International Conference on
Advances in Computing and Communications, Communications in Computer
and Information Science Volume, Vol. 191, pp. 172-182, 2011.
8.2.3 During year 2010-2011
8. M. Karthikeyan, Naikan V.N.A, Nayak M. M, and Narayan. R, Reliability
Improvement through FMECA on Electric Propulsion Feed System, National
Conference on Electric Propulsion Systems, ISRO Bangalore, 23rd
and 24th
Feb,
2011.
9. M.S. Rao, and V.N.A. Naikan, A hybrid Markov system dynamics approachfor availability analysis of degraded systems, Proceedings of International
Conference. on Industrial Engineering & Operations Management, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, January 22-24, pp. 1160-1165, 2011.
10. Pandey A. K. and N. K. Goyal, Test Effort Optimization by Prediction and
Ranking of Fault-prone Software Module Metrics, Proceedings of
International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Hazard, Mumbai (India),
December 2010, pp. 136-142, 2011.
11. Pandey A. K. and N. K. Goyal, Software Reliability Improvement by using a
Cost Effective Test Case Prioritization Techniques Metrics, International
Congress on Productivity, Quality, Reliability, Optimization and Modeling
(ICPQROM - 2011), Delhi.
12. Syamsundar, A., Kumar, D. E. V., and Naikan V.N.A, Imperfect repair
accelerated failure time models with time varying covariates for maintainedsystems, 7th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial
Maintenance and Reliability, MIMAR 2011, Sidney Sussex College, University
of Cambridge, UK, April 18-20, 2011.
13. A. Syamsundar, K. Muralidharan and Naikan V.N.A, General Repair Models
for Maintained Systems, International Statistics Conference, December 28-
30, 2011, Colombo.
14. A. Syamsundar, Kumar, D. E. V., and Naikan V.N.A, Imperfect repair
accelerated failure time processes for maintained systems, Second
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International Conference on Reliability, Safety & Hazard, Mumbai, December
13-16, pp. 313-318, 2010.
15. M.S. Rao, and V.N.A. Naikan, A system thinking approach for time
dependent availability analysis of multicomponent systems, Second
International Conference on Reliability, Safety & Hazard, Mumbai, December
13-16, pp. 162-167, 2010
16. M. Sarma, P.V.R. Murthy, S. Jell, and A. Ulrich, Model-based testing in
industry: a case study with two MBT tools Proceedings of the 5th Workshop
on Automation of Software Test, pp. 87-90, 2010.
17. Pandey A. K. and N. K. Goyal, An Early Software Fault Prediction Model usingProcess Maturity and Software Metrics Metrics, Proceedings of 1st
International Joint Conference on Information and Communication
Technology, Bhubaneswar (India), pp. 194-201, 2010.
18. V. N. A. Naikan, Varde PV, Agarwal M, Marathe PP, Mohapatra U, and
Sharma RC, Reliability and life prediction for electronic connectors for
control applications, Second International Conference on Reliability, Safety &
Hazard, Mumbai, December 13-16, pp. 63-67,2010.
8.2.4 During year 2009-2010
19. Edwin V. Kumar and S. K. Chaturvedi, Focus on Reliability of Process
Equipment in India, National Conference on Condition Monitoring
(NCCM), Visakhapatnam, 2009.
20. M.S. Rao, and V.N.A. Naikan, System Dynamics simulation based hybrid
approach for reliability analysis, The 27th International Conference of the
System Dynamics Society, Albuquerque,New Mexico, USA, 2009.
21. Padmavathy N. and S. K. Chaturvedi, Reliability- An Imperative Challenge of
Mobile Ad hoc Network, International Conference on Sensors and Related
Networks, (SENNET-09), Vol. II, pp. 654-657, 2009.
22. S.K. Chaturvedi, Network Reliability: Techniques and
Challenges, International Conference on Statistics, Probability, Operations
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Research, Computer Science and Allied Areas (IISA-ISPA-
2010), Visakhapatnam, 2010.
23. S.M. Dewal and N.K. Goyal, Out of range error probability assessment for
software Codes, 4th International Conference on Quality, Reliability and
Infocom Technology(ICQRIT 2009), New Delhi, India, 2009.
24. Tirthankar Gayen, and R. B Misra, Reliability assessment of Elementary COTS
software component, International Joint Journal Conference in
Engineering, Trivandrum, India, 2009.
8.2.5 During year 2008-2009
25. D. Kundu, M. Sarma, and D. Samanta, A novel approach to system testing
and reliability assessment using use case model, Proceedings of the 1st India
software engineering conference, pp. 147-148, 2008.
26. K. Saravana Kumar, R.B. Misra and N.K. Goyal, Development of Fuzzy
Software Operational Profile, 2nd
IEEE International Conference on Secure
System Integration and Reliability Improvement, Japan, 2008.
27. K. Saravana Kumar and R.B. Misra, An Enhanced Model for Metrics basedSoftware Reliability Prediction using Fuzzy Inference System, 2
ndIEEE
International Conference on Secure System Integration and
Reliability, Japan, 2008.
28. M.S. Rao, and V.N.A. Naikan, A soft computing approach for reliability
analysis of repairable systems, ICAME, Baroda, S. V. National Institute of
Technology, 2008.
29. M.S. Rao, and V.N.A. Naikan, A system dynamics based soft computing
approach for Reliability analysis of systems, International Conference on
Operations Research for a growing Nation, Tirupati, 2008.
30. Syamsundar A, and V.N.A. Naikan, Hierarchical Segmented Point Process
Models with multiple change points for Maintained Systems, International
Conference on Present Practices and Future Trends in Quality and Reliability
(ICONQR 08), Kolkata.
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31. Syamsundar A, and V.N.A. Naikan, Modelling of maintained systems using
segmented point processes Part 2, International Conference on Reliability
Safety and Quality Engineering 2008, (ICRSQE 2008), Kolkata, 2008.
9 Books/Book Chapters Published
# Title of Book Title of Chapter Publisher Author
1 Early Software Reliability
Prediction
Springer A.K. Pandey
and N.K. Goyal
2 New trends in system
reliability evaluation
Elsevier Ed. K.B. Misra
3 Reliability analysis andprediction: a methodology
oriented treatment
Elsevier K.B. Misra
4 Reliability Engineering and
Life Testing
PHI V.N.A. Naikan
5 Handbook of Performability
Engineering
Statistical Process
Control
Springer V.N.A. Naikan
Ed. K.B. Misra
6 Handbook of Performability
Engineering
MIP: A Versatile Tool
for Reliability Design
of Systems
Springer S.K. Chaturvedi
Ed. K.B. Misra
7 Clean Production:
Environmental and Economic
Perspectives
Springer Ed. K.B. Misra
8 Principles of Reliability
Engineering
K.B. Misra
10 Editorial/Review Board ContributionsFaculty Member Journal/Conference Contributions
K.B. Misra Performability Engineering Editor-in-chief
Microelectronics and Reliability Editorial board
IEEE Transaction on Reliability Assoc. Editor
Reliability Engineering & System Safety Member Editorial Board
International J. of Quality, Reliability and
Safety Engineering
Member Editorial Board
International J. of Quality and Reliability
Management
Member Editorial Board
International J. of Fuzzy Mathematics Member Editorial Board
Electric Power Research Journal Member Editorial Board
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R.B. Misra DRDO Advisory Board Member
NERIST Board Member
INCRESE 2005, 2006, 2007 Chairman
V.N.A. Naikan INCRESE 2005, 2006, 2007 Technical Chair and
Proceedings Co-EditorOPTIMA 2005 Co-Chair
International J. of Performability Engineering Reviewer
Journal of Society for Mining, Metallurgy,
and Exploration, Inc
Reviewer
International J. of Quality and Reliability
Management
Reviewer
Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process
Industries
Reviewer
Defence Science Journal Reviewer
Computers and Industrial Engineering ReviewerICRESH 2010 Co-Technical Chair
International J. of Performability Engineering Regional Editor, South Asia
International J. of Performability Engineering
(New Trends in Quality Engineering and
Management)
Editor (Special Issue)
International J. of Production Research Reviewer
S.K. Chaturvedi International J. of Performability Engineering Member Editorial Board
INCRESE 2005, 2006, 2007 Finance Chair and
Proceedings Co-EditorInternational J. of Quality and Reliability
Management
Reviewer
Defence Science Journal Reviewer
International J. of Performability Engineering Member Editorial Board,
Group 2
IEEE Transaction on Reliability Reviewer
N.K. Goyal International J. of Quality and Reliability
Management
Reviewer
Defence Science Journal Reviewer
Journal of Applied Mathematics and
Informatics
Reviewer
Central European Journal of Computer
Science
Reviewer
International Journal of Performability
Engineering
Associate Editor
INCRESE 2007 Conference Secretary and
Co-Editor Proceedings
M. Sarma Information and Software Technology Reviewer
Journal of Systems and Software ReviewerJournal of Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering
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11 Conferences Organized by the Centre
# Title of the Conference Venue Dates
1 Reliability Engineering IIT Kharagpur December 1984
2 International Conference on Reliability and safetyEngineering (INCRESE 2005)
Bhubaneswar December 20-22,2005
3 International Conference on Reliability and safety
Engineering (INCRESE 2006)
Chennai December 19-21,
2006
4 International Conference on Reliability and safety
Engineering (INCRESE 2007)
Udaipur December 18-20,
2007
12 Sponsored Research & Consultancy Projects (Last 5
Years)
12.1 Sponsored Research Projects
# Title of Research Project Sponsor PI and Co-PI
1 Standardization of Virtual Keyboards in
Indic Languages
DIT, MICT, Govt. of
India
Dr. M. Sarma
2 A New Framework for Testing Object-
Oriented Programs
DST, New Delhi Dr. M. Sarma
3 Reliability Modelling, Analysis and
Prediction of 21 NA (Absolute) Pressure
Transducers
ISRO Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
4 Rotating Machinery Fault Simulation Lab MHRD Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
5 Design of Minimal Cost Backbone
Network Layout for Given Capacity and
Reliability Requirements
VEICET, IIT Kharagpur Dr. N.K. Goyal
6 Reliability Assessment of The LargeComplex Computer Code
AERB, Mumbai Dr. R.B. MisraDr. N.K. Goyal
7 Software Reliability & Safety DNV Norway Dr. R.B. Misra
8 Reliability Evaluation of Capacitated
Networks with Heterogeneous Link
Capacities
SRIC, IIT Kharagpur Dr. S. K. Chaturvedi
9 Software Reliability Testing and
Modelling for High Risk and Safety
Applications
MHRD Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
Dr. R.B. Misra
10 FIST PROGRAM: InfrastructureDevelopment in Environment Lab, REC
DST Dr. R.B. MisraDr. S.K. Chaturvedi
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11 Reliability of Restructured Power
Systems
MHRD Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
12 Software Reliabillity & Testing for
software Critical Systems
MHRD Dr. R.B. Misra
12.2 Consultancy Projects
# Title of Consultancy Project Sponsor PI and Co-PI
1 Reliability Modelling And Prediction
Of Process Control System
DRDO Panagarh Dr. N.K. Goyal
2 Advance Studies On Human
Reliability Analysis
NPCIL Mumbai Dr. N.K. Goyal
3 Reliability Prediction and Testing ofElectrical Products
Crompton andGreaves, Mumbai
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
4 Accelerated Life Tests on
Connectors
ECIL, Hyderabad Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
Dr. N.K. Goyal
5 Flood Probabilistic Safety
Assessment of Kakrapara Nuclear
Power Plant
NPCIL, Mumbai Dr. N.K. Goyal
6 RAMS for Garuda-I DRDL, Hyderabad Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
Dr. S.K. ChaturvediDr. N.K. Goyal
7 RAMS for Garuda-II DRDL, Hyderabad Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
8 RAMS for Garuda-III DRDL, Hyderabad Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
9 Reliability Modelling and Analysis of
Integrated Test Range
ITR, Chandipur Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
10 Reliability Improvement of Metering
Products
L&T, Mysore Dr. R.B. Misra
11 Reliability Model of GG DRDL, Hyderabad Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
12 Reliability Prediction, FMEA/FMECA,
Modeling of LSS of Fighter Aircraft
DBEEL, Bangalore Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
13 RAMS Model for Project ASTRA DRDL, Hyderabad Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
Dr. N.K. Goyal
14 Reliability Improvement of MeteringProducts
Secure Meters,Udaipur
Dr. R.B. Misra
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15 Reliability Prediction of DLS DEAL Dehradun Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
16 Reliability work Package for a
missile project
DRDL, Hyderabad Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
17 Shutdown Probabilistic SafetyAssessment of Kakrapara Nuclear
Power Plant
NPCIL, Mumbai Dr. R.B. MisraDr. N.K. Goyal
18 Software and Hardware Reliability
Modelling of AGNI-III missile
ASL, DRDO Dr. R.B. Misra
Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi
19 System study on remote
assessment of residual mission
reliability of equipment through
condition based monitoring
Indian Army Dr. V.N.A. Naikan
Dr. N.K. Goyal
Dr. S.P. Sarmah
13 Short Term Training Programmes organized in last 5
years
# Title of Course Sponsor
1 Reliability Centred Maintenance Part-III Self
2 Recent Advances in Reliability Prediction, Estimation and
Testing
Self
3 Product Reliability Assurance and Assessment Self
4 Reliability Engineering for DRDO Engineers DRDO
5 Software Reliability-I Self
6 Strategic Quality Control of Coal, for managers and engineers
from Kothagudam Coal Mines
Kothagudam Coal
Mines
7 Early Software Reliability Prediction Self
8 Highly Accelerated Testing Self
9 Accelerated Testing & data analysis Self
10 Reliability & Safety Engineering Self
11 Reliability Centered Maintenance Part-I Self
12 Reliability Centered Maintenance Part-II Self
13 Reliability Leadership-I Self
14 Accelerated Testing & Data Analysis Self
15 Reliability Engineering DRDL Hyderabad
16 Reliability Leadership-II Self
17 Software Reliability & Testing for Naval Officers Self
18 Reliability Measurement and Demonstration Methods (2011,2012, 2013, 2014)
DIQA, Bangalore
19 Software Reliability-II Self
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14 Resources of the Centre
14.1 Faculty Members
# Name Designation Area of Specialisation
1 Dr. V. N. A.
Naikan
Professor Reliability, Quality, Condition Monitoring
2 Dr. S. K.
Chaturvedi
Associate
Professor
System Reliability Modelling and Analysis
3 Dr. N. K. Goyal AssistantProfessor
System Reliability (Software, Network, Electronic),Probabilistic Risk/Safety Assessment, Life Testing
4 Dr. M. Sarma Assistant
Professor
Cloud Computing, Software Reliability
14.2 Ex-Faculty Members
# Name Designation Area of Specialisation
1 Dr. R. B. Misra Professor Power System Reliability,
Software Reliability
2 Dr. K. B. Misra Professor Reliability Modelling, Analysis,
Design, Optimization
3 Dr. A.S.R. Murty Professor Condition Monitoring
14.3 Technical Staff
# Name Designation
1 Chakraborty D Senior Technician
14.4 Office Staff
# Name Designation
1 Chakraborty Shanti Ranjan Junior Superintendent
2 G. Laxminarayan Senior Attendant
3 Rao K.S. Senior Attendant
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14.5 Laboratories
Environmental Life Testing Lab
Computer Laboratory
14.6 Library
The centre has a functional library in which several books on reliability
engineering, quality engineering and allied subjects are available. The library has
also collection of M. Tech, M.S., and Ph. D theses of all the past students. Library
is open to members of the faculty, students of the centre and to the
students/researchers from other departments/institutions with a prior
permission from the HoC.
15 Placement Scenario of the Centre
All the past and present M. Tech., M. S. and Ph. D. students passing out from the
centre are well placed in reputed organizations such as BARC, Bloom Energy,
Crompton & Greaves, DRDO, Eaton, Entity Solutions, GE, GM, Goodrich, HCL,
Honeywell, IBM, INFOSYS, ISRO, LM Wind Power, Maruti Udhyog, NPCIL,
SATYAM, TATA Steel, TCS, Time Tooth, WIPRO, and many more.
16 Alumni of the Centre
Alumni of the centre have been very successfully established themselves in
almost all major Indian industries and R&D organizations. In most cases, they
have founded reliability departments or sections in their organization for
effectively coordinating and implementing the activities of reliability engineering.Their presence in the three wings of the armed forces and the defence
organizations is considerable. They have done excellent work and received
awards and laurels for implementing several design, installation, operation, and
maintenance activities based on their reliability engineering knowledge. Several
of them are serving as faculty members in reputed IITs, Universities and
engineering colleges and spreading the ideas and concepts of reliability
engineering and doing valuable research. Based on their feedback, the centre is
very proud to mention here that their success stories are mainly influenced by
the knowledge and inspiration they gained during their education in reliability
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engineering. Several of our alumni are working as reliability engineers and
researchers in US, UK, Germany, France, Norway, Canada, and several other
countries doing excellent contribution.
17 Future Directions
Integrated Dual Degree Programme with B. Tech. (Hons.) in conventional
branches of Engineering and M. Tech. in Reliability Engineering.
Strengthening of the Post Graduate Program start M. Tech. in Software
Reliability.
Post Doctoral Program to be strengthened.
Strengthening the interaction between REC and Industry.
Introducing new courses such as safety, engineering asset management.
18 Laboratory Facilities
Environmental Lab: Various equipments used for testing reliability of
components and devices for industry and defense applications are installed and
operated as part of reliability demonstration tests. Major equipments thatconstitute the environmental lab are listed below:
Dry Heat Chamber
Humidity Chamber
Salt Spray Chamber
Cold Chamber
Burn-in Chamber
Thermal Shock Chamber FFT Analyzer
Bump Test machine
Endurance and Life test Machines
Fault Simulator Kit
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Simulation Lab: The Simulation Lab is well equipped
Configuration of Computers & other peripherals. The students a
to various software as a part of curriculum and research activities.
ALTA BlockSim FMEA Accel
RELEX MATLAB Risk Spectr
CASRE Minitab etc.
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19 Ex Faculty of Reliability Engineering Centre
19.1 Prof. K.B. Misra
Prof. K. B. Misra, the founder Head of Reliability
Engineering Centre, IIT Kharagpur, was born in
1943 at Kota, Rajasthan, India and received his
B.E. (Electrical) from MS University of Baroda,
India in 1963 and M.E. (Power System Eng.) and
Ph.D. (Reliability Eng.) degrees in 1966 and 1970,
both from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Roorkee. He is one of the first engineering
doctorates in reliability engineering which was
carried out at University of Roorkee in the year
1970. He joined IIT Roorkee as a lecturer in 1966, and became professor in 1976
at the age of 33. Subsequently, he moved over to IIT Kharagpur as Professor in
Electrical Engineering in 1980 and worked for 25 years till his retirement in 2005
from Reliability Engineering Centre. He was Coordinator of Ministry of Human
Resource Development Project on Reliability Engineering since 1983 at IIT
Kharagpur.
Before joining IIT Kharagpur, Prof. K. B. Misra was invited by the Department
of Science & Technology, Government of India, in 1976, to serve as the Convener
of the NCST working group on Reliability Engineering in India with Major General
K. K. Mehta as its Chairman. This group (comprising 7 sub-groups) submitted two
reports (part I & part II) in 1978 to Department of Science and Technology, New
Delhi, on the Reliability Implementation Program for India. A task force
committee was also constituted on Reliability Engineering by the Department of
Science & Technology, in 1979. Due to the recommendations of this NCST
committee, a full-fledged masters degree program (M. Tech) in Reliability
Engineering that was conceptualized by Prof. Misra and submitted to MHRD
started for the first time in India at IIT-Kharagpur in 1982. It was also mainly, as a
result of Prof. Misras efforts, the Reliability Engineering Centre (REC) was
established in 1983 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development Project,
Government of India. The REC is the first of its kind, in any educational institution
in India, to promote training, research and consultancy in the area of Reliability
Engineering. Several postgraduate students trained at this centre are contributing
to several prestigious projects of the country, such as LCA (Light Combat Aircraft),
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nuclear, missile and space programmes. Reliability Engineering Centre is the first
and unique centre of excellence in India offering Masters and research programs
in Reliability Engineering, and is offering consultancy to government and private
organizations including DRDO laboratories, NPCIL-Mumbai, etc. This programme
is still continuing and is quite popular with defence establishments (Air Force,
Army, and Navy) and Premier Indian companies including multinationals. This
Centre has produced more than 300 postgraduate and 25 Ph.d students who are
engaged in prestigious multinational, government organizations, and public
sector industries helping in nation building besides many of them doing excellent
work in reliability abroad, and earning a good name for the country. He also made
efforts to popularize reliability and safety concepts in India both in the
industries and in the technical institutions. The concept of performability as a
holistic attribute of performance has been introduced and popularized by him.
Prof. Misra is a recipient of the first Lal C. Verman Award in 1983 by the
Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for his pioneering
research work in Reliability Engineering in the country. In 1995, in recognition of
his meritorious and outstanding contributions to reliability research and
education in India, he was awarded a plaque by IEEE Reliability Engineering
Society, USA. Prof. Misra is a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian
National Academy of Engineering, Institution of Electronics &
Telecommunications (India), Institutions of Engineers (India) and Safety &
Reliability Society (UK). He had been vice president of System Society of India, of
which he also serves a life member. He is also a life member of National Institute
of Quality & Reliability.
Prof. Misra has guided several PhD in the areas of system reliability evaluation
and optimization, and has published over 200 technical papers in reputed
international journals. Prof. Misras research papers have been widely quoted ininternational journals and books published abroad.
Prof. Misra became the first Indian reviewer to IEEE Transactions on Reliability
(for four decades since 1969) and also until recently the only Indian member of
the editorial boards of major international journals on reliability such as
International Journal of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, International
Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, International Journal of Reliability,
Quality and Safety Engineering, and Microelectronics and Reliability (M&R) for
which Prof. Misra served on the editorial board for 25 years including as Asian
Region Editor. Prof. Misra also served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on
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Reliability, on editorial boards of several reputed international journals. In 1992,
Professor Misra authored the state-of-art book on Reliability Analysis and
Prediction: A Methodology Oriented Treatment, published by Elsevier Science
Publishers, Amsterdam. In 1993, Prof. Misra edited a book, New Trends in System
Reliability Evaluation, which was also published by Elsevier Science Publishers. In
1995, Prof. Misra edited another book on Clean Production: Environmental and
Economic Perspectives, published by Springer Verlag, Germany. In 2004, he has
authored another book, Principles of Reliability Engineering mainly for practicing
engineers. Recently, a Handbook of Performability Engineering has been edited
by Prof. Misra and published by Springer in 2008. It is landmark contribution
which will set a new trend in the design of systems and services in 21st Century.
Prof. Misra is the founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal ofPerformability Engineering (2005) published by RAMS Consultants, Jaipur. The
IJPE is the first international journal in the area from India covering a wide range
of reliability topics. Due his efforts, in a short period of 6 years of its publication,
the Journal has acquired a niche among the research community.
He was also Dean, Institute Planning and Development at IIT, Kharagpur. His
contributions as the Dean of Asset Management are worth mentioning where he
took several steps to effective utilization of Institute Assets and had implementedrevolutionary methods for their maintenance. He has also worked in Federal
Republic of Germany at four different institutions, viz., GRS-Garching, Technical
University-Munich, RWTH-Aachen and Kernforschungszentrum, Karlsruhe,
Germany. On invitation, he has delivered lectures in USA and in several European
countries, which include England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland,
Italy, Poland, Sweden etc. He has been Director of North Eastern Regional
Institute of Science and Technology (a Deemed University under Ministry of
Human Resources Development) from 1995 to 1998. During the period 1992-1994, he also worked as Director-grade-Scientist at National Environmental
Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur. He set up two important divisions, viz.,
Disaster Prevention and Impact Minimization Division and Information Division.
Prof. Misra has been the Chairman of Indian Bureau of Standards Committee
LTDC 3 on Reliability of Electrical & Electronic components and Equipments. For
several years, he served as a member of Environmental Appraisal Committee (for
nuclear power plants in India), Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India,
New Delhi. He has served as member on Project Assessment Committee for
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National Radar Council, Department of Electronics, CSIR, UGC, etc. Prof. Misra is
also listed in Indo-American whos who.
19.2 Prof. R.B. Misra
Prof. Ravindra Babu Misra was born in year 1946 at
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh in India. He joined reliability
engineering centre as Professor in 1998 from
department of electrical engineering, IIT Kharagpur.
He joined IIT Kharagpur as Assistant Professor at
electrical engineering department in 1984. Beforecoming to IIT Kharagpur, he had working
experience at Irrigation and Power Department,
Govt. of Maharashtra as Junior Engineer of approx. 3 years, at Institute of
Technology, Banaras Hindu University as Lecturer of approx. 1 year and at
University of Roorkee as Lecturer of approx. 8 years.
Prof. R.B. Misra served Reliability Engineering Centre as Head for three years
(2005-2008). During his tenure, the centre progressed in terms of quality ofM.Tech., and Ph.D. thesis, its contribution to industrial projects, team work
among faculty and students, improvement in lab facilities, new faculty induction
etc. Besides, he organized three consecutive International Conferences on
Reliability and Safety Engineering (INCRESE) in year 2005, 2006 and 2007. The
conferences were appreciated by all the national and international participants. It
increased awareness about need and applications of reliability engineering and
probabilistic safety assessment in India.
Prof. R.B. Misra has been a renowned expert in the field of Power System
Reliability and Central Research Institute of Electrical Power Industry; Tokyo,
Japan honoured him by inviting as JSPS fellow in year 2002. He did his post
doctorate in system reliability at University of Ottawa, Canada during year 1984.
He made pioneer efforts in practical implementation of system reliability
testing and analysis principles to Indian industries. He initiated many consultancy
and research projects with private and public sector industries and completed
them satisfactorily. He has become renowned in the industries due to his positive
approach and dedication to bring the benefits of research in the area of reliability
engineering to Indian industries. Reliability engineering is a specialized area,
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which gains importance as competition in market increas
become aware, in general. He simplified the concepts
applicability to make them easily implementable to Indian in
due to his efforts, that industries became aware of the need
reliability engineering.
He has been reliability consultant to many organizatio
Secure Meters, L&T, NPCIL, DEBEL, GRIDCO, Railways etc. He
of DRDO advisory board. He has been a member or fellow
technical societies such as IEEE, IE (India), System Society of In
He has guided fourteen Ph.D. students and written more t
in refereed journals of international repute. He developed the
engineering course and guided many Ph.D. and M. Tech., st
reliability engineering. He did pioneer work in Early S
Prediction, which has been well received by researchers and i
software reliability prediction concepts became popular in
easy to understand and implement besides it would help soft
deliver reliable software in lesser time cost effectively.
Prof. R.B. Misra is no more among us he died on Decemb
that we have lost a real force for good in the world. We are
working with him and hope that we can continue his good wo
was a leader in our international research community w
remembered.
19.3 Prof. A.S.R. Murthy
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He has served at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur during
1964 - 1999. Has also served the Mechanical Engineering Department as
Professor and then served Reliability Engineering Centre and Industrial
Engineering Department as Professor from 1984 to 1999.
Prof. Murthy was considered as the guru of condition monitoring in India.
Undertook consultancy work from the organizations like Garden Reach
Workshops, Hindustan Copper Limited, SriRam Bearings, Metal Box, Hindustan
Shipping Yard, Bokaro Steel Plant, DoT Kharagpur, Pfeizer etc., and many more
companies in the areas of machine condition monitoring, machinery vibrations
and fault diagnosis, machine design etc. He visited Germany (erstwhile West
Germany) 1975-77 Post Doctoral Fellow at TU Braunschweig. Research area was
Grinder Dynamics, Machine Tool Vibrations.
He has Visited Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring countries where the visit
includes several universities and research labs. He visited U. S. A. in 1982. The
visits include universities at Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia Tech., MIT, Brooklyn,
Stonybrook, Cleve Land Reserve etc., totalling more than 25 in number. Chaired
at a session in the International Conference sponsored by ASME, IEEE on CAD and
Robotics.
Presented papers at various conferences in W. Germany and USA including
the one held by US Navy. Government of India (MHRD) gave a grant of nearly Rs.
4 Crores to start a Reliability Engineering Centre (REC) at IIT Kharagpur. An M.
Tech programme and Doctoral programmes were started in the year 1984.
Operated as head of REC from 1988-1992, during the time 1984-99 consultancy
projects and training programmes from various organizations like TELCO
(presently Tata Motors), Tisco, Tata Bearings, Owens, Whirlpool, practically all
steel plants of India, many mining industries, oil refineries, Hindustan Copper
Limited, Hindustan Zinc Limited, Tata Metalliks, Telecom Industry, Flender Gears
etc., were undertaken. They were all completed successfully.
REC being the first centre of its kind in the world received the Arch of Europe
Award for excellence and quality at Madrid. REC also received similar award from
IEEE. Guided more than 100 M. Tech. thesis and 16 PhD thesis, Published more
than 50 technical papers in the international journals which are all A level,
Reviewed papers also for many journals and for many institutes including for MIT,
USA.
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