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Lectures, Short Courses, and Conference Presentations |
2011: Dimensional Analysis in Experimental Design - at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Industry day, November 30 2011.
2011: Statistical Topics in Engineering and Manufacturing Industry. A 2-day course at for the Royal Statistical Society Professional Development Centre, November 2-3. This course was co-written and delivered with Huw Williams.
2011: A Quality Operating System for Tier 1 Automotive Suppliers - at the Welsh Automotive Forum, Waterton Technology Centre, Bridgend, October 20, 2011.
2011: Creative Convergence - banquet speech at the Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry & Technology, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, June 23, 2011.
2011: Parameter Design & Transfer Functions - at the Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry & Technology, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, June 23, 2011.
2010: Statistical Engineering - a plenary lecture given at the International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society, Brighton Centre, UK, Sept 15, 2010. You can download a copy of the slides here. Repeated at the at the 47th Gregynog Statistical Conference, The University of Wales, Gregynog, Powys, April 16, 2011, and to the Institute of Physics, May 19, 2011
2009: The rites and prangs of statistical fashions in industry - a lecture given jointly with my friend, Tony Greenfield, at the University of Newcastle, December 10, 2009, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Industrial Statistics Research Unit. You can listen to the lecture and follow the slide show presentation here.
2009: FMEA - Failure Mode and Effect Avoidance; at the University of Bradford, UK, July 1, 2009.
2008: Reliability through Failure Mode Avoidance; at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, March 5, 2008. This lecture was recorded and can be downloaded from my Dropbox (requires about 538Mb). The lecture takes the form of a simultaneous video and Power Point slide show, and can be best viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you have trouble downloading the material, please contact me to make other arrangements to get a copy. See also this follow-up report from Sandia Labs., presented at the 2008 European Wind Energy Conference.
2007: Failure Mode Avoidance, a 1-day course at the University of Bradford, UK, March 15, 2007 (details).
2006: Failure Mode Avoidance at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, November 10, 2006.
2004: Engineering for reliability from the perspective of automotive engineering, at the Workshop on Testing for Dynamic Acquisition of Defense Systems, December 13-14, 2004 National Academy of Sciences, Building 2100 C Street, NW Washington, DC. I was the only non-US scientist to be invited (by Vijay Nair) to participate in the workshop. Many of my suggestions for failure mode avoidance were included in the text and recommendations of the report (e.g. see Recommendation #2).
2004: Science, engineering, and statistics, at the 4th International Conference of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 22, 2004 (keynote address). This lecture was repeated at the University of Detroit Mercy, October 18th 2004, and at the 4th International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics, in Palm Cove, Cairns, Australia, April 15, 2005 (Photo). An earlier version of ths lecture was given at the University of Bradford, UK, on April 29, 2004 (report)
2004: Reliability, at a meeting on A National Strategy for Reliability, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London, September 15, 2004. It was for this lecture that I was awarded the Donald Julius Groen prize of the IMechE by the Safety & Reliability Group.
2004: Measuring robustness as a parameter in a transfer function. SAE World Congress, Detroit, MI, USA, March 12, 2004.
2003: On aspects of statistical engineering, a seminar delivered in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, March 21, 2003. An updated version of this seminar was delivered to the School of Engineering, Design and Technology at the University of Bradford, UK on May 15, 2003 (press release); to the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society on June 4, 2003; to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK, on October 16, 2003; and to the Statistical Sciences Research Institute at the University of Southampton on December 5, 2003.
2002: The role of statistical science in automotive engineering, at the Ninth ASA/IMS Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, May 21, 2002. (Photo: Sir David Cox, FRS; Professor Vijay Nair; Dr. Tim Davis; at the conference). An updated version of this talk was presented at the University of Oxford, April 1, 2003.
2000: Robust or Bust - Robust Engineering Design in the Automotive Business, at the 18th ASI Annual Taguchi Methods Symposium, Novi, Michigan, USA. November 1, 2000. (Photo: Dr. Genichi Taguchi and me, early in my career).
1999: Reliability Improvement in Automotive Engineering at the Sixth ASA/IMS Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, Minneapolis, MN, USA. June 2-4, 1999. (A modified version of this talk was delivered on my behalf by Robert Webb at the I.Mech.E. conference The Global Vehicle - reliability of automotive systems and components, Birmingham, UK, December 12, 2000.)
1997: Engine Mapping: a two stage approach, at the Universität Augsburg, Germany.
1995: Engineering with Statistics at a meeting at the headquarters of the IMechE, London, to promote closer links between the engineering and statistical professions. (repeated in 1997, under the title Robustness Thinking and Robust Engineering Design).
1994: Reliability and Robustness Engineering: a technical overview at a Ford 2000 Conference on the Integration of Quality Methods, Dearborn, MI., USA.
1993: Will Computer Modelling Replace Testing?, a presentation to the Engineering Integrity Society, UK.
1992: Statistical Methods in Quality Improvement at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at the University of Southampton, UK.
1992: Engineering, Quality and Experimental Design, a 2-day course presented to the international conference of the Royal Statistical Society, Sheffield, UK.
1991: Statistical Methods in Quality Engineering, at a conference "Total Quality in the Automotive Industry: Strategies, Methods, Practices", organized by ATA, Turin, Italy.
1991: Experimental Design in Reliability Analysis, at a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK.