1. Reliability Society Chapter's Congress Meeting IEEE Chicago RS Chapter
June 17, 2012
Presented by: Zhaojun (Steven) Li or

2. IEEE CHICAGO RELIABIILTY SOCIETY CHAPTER
Summary:
1. Re-activate the IEEE Chicago RS chapter
2. Recruit volunteers for chapter officers
3. Organized the first chapter meeting at UIC
4. Outreach to local reliability professionals
5. Work with local IEEE section
6. Started chapter’s website
7. Learning and growing…..

3. IEEE CHICAGO RELIABIILTY SOCIETY
Goal: To provide a platform for reliability professionals and researchers to share and exchange ideas, new technology, …….
Volunteers: for IEEE Chicago Reliability Society Chapter:
Steven Li, PhD, ASQ CRE, Chapter Chair
Khalid Mekki, PhD, Chapter Vice Chair (Will change)
Subhash Gedam, PhD, ASQ CRE, Chapter Secretary/Treasurer
David He, PhD, Professor at UIC, Board Advisor

4. IEEE CHICAGO RELIABIILTY SOCIETY
Website:

5. IEEE CHICAGO RELIABIILTY SOCIETY FIRST MEETING
Summary of the first meeting
Agenda
Time
Events
6:pm – 7:00pm
Pre-meeting social
7:00pm-7:10pm
Introduction to the RS chapter
7:10pm – 8:00pm
Talk: Diagnostic and Prognostics
8:00pm – 9:00pm
After meeting social
Some questions:
1. Coordinating with local section event calendar?
2. Timing, time duration?
3. Publicizing RS chapter event?
4. Funding for refreshment and snack?
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6. IEEE CHICAGO RELIABIILTY SOCIETY FIRST MEETING
Summary of the first meeting
Attendance
Some questions:
1. How can we reach to more reliability professionals? Social networks
2. How to grow membership?
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7. IEEE CHICAGO RELIABIILTY SOCIETY CHAPTER
Future Work:
1. Membership growth (tracking and analysis)
2. Organize more meetings including distinguished lectures
3. Work and coordinate better with local section
4. More …..

8. IEEE CHICAGO RELIABIILTY SOCIETY
Thank you.