Research Expertise

•	Reliability, maintainability, and availability engineering
•	Operational readiness, system effectiveness
•	Probabilistic design for reliability
•	Reliability and life testing
•	Reliability growth
•	Accelerated, Bayesian, nonparametric, and burn-in testing
•	Environmental stress screening
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Education

•	Ph.D.	:	Engineering Mechanics, Purdue University, 1953
•	M.S.	:	Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1948
•	B.S.	:	Mechanical Engineering, Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, 1942
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Courses Taught  (since 2000)

•	AME 472/572	:	Reliability Engineering (and SIE 408/508)
•	AME 473/573	:	Engineering Design by Reliability
•	AME 474/574	:	Reliability and Quality Analysis
•	AME 575	:	Reliability Testing (and SIE 518)
•	AME 576	:	Advanced Engineering Design by Reliability
•	AME 577	:	Maintainability Engineering (and SIE 528)
In addition, conceived, organized, and directed the "Reliability Engineering and Management Institute" since 1963, "Reliability Testing Institute" since 1975, and "Applied Reliability Engineering and Product Assurance Institute for Engineers and Managers" 1991 to 2003, and conceived, implemented, and raised funds for "The Dr. Dimitri Basil Kececioglu Reliability Engineering Research Fellowships Endowment Fund."
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Employment

•	2008	:	The University of Arizona: Professor Emeritus
•	1963-08	:	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona: Professor
•	1979-08	:	Reliability Engineering Master’s Degree Program, University of Arizona: Professor-in-Charge
•	1964-65	:	Gas Register Corporation, Tucson, Arizona: Director
•	1952-63	:	AllisChalmers Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Various Engineering Positions, the last one being Corporate Director, Reliability Engineering
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Honors and Awards

Has received over 95 honors, a select few of which follow:
•	Fellow, American Society for Quality (1999)
•	Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (1997)
•	Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (1996)
•	1991-92 Academy of Achievements Award in Education, Amer. Hellenic Ed. Progressive Assoc.
•	Inducted into The University of Arizona Presidents Club (1989
•	University of Arizona Anderson Prize (1983)
•	ASQ’s Reliability Division Allen Chop Award (1981)
•	ASQ’s Reliability Education Advancement Award (1979-80)
•	SAE’s Ralph Teetor Award (1977)
•	Fulbright Scholar (1971)
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Professional Societies

•	ASME	:	American Society of Mechanical Engineers
•	ASEE	:	American Society for Engineering Education
•	IEEE	:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
•	AIAA	:	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
•	----	:	Reliability Society
•	ASQ	:	Reliability Division of the American Society for Quality
•	----	:	Society of Reliability Engineers
•	----	:	Hellenic Operations Research Society of Greece
•	----	:	Society of Automotive Engineers
•	----	:	Tau Beta Pi
•	----	:	Phi Kappa Phi
•	----	:	Golden Key Honor Society
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Selected Publications  (since 2002)

•	Kececioglu, D. B. and Sarakakis, G., Much Needed Attention to Car Reliability Demonstration Testing and Test Sample Size Determination, SAE World Congress, Detroit, Michigan, April 3-6, 2006, Tech. Paper 2006-01-1616.
•	Li, Q. and Kececioglu, D. B., Design of an Optimal Plan for an Accelerated Degradation Test: A Case Study, Int. J. Quality and Reliability Mgmt. 23: 426-440, 2006.
•	Ganesh, B. S. and Kececioglu, D. B., Robust Engineering Design-by-Reliability Using ANSYS and Weibull++, Proceedings, 11th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, St. Louis, August 4-6, 2005, pp. 223-228.
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Accelerated Life Testing for Reliability Validation, Chapter 25 in Engineering Reliability Design Handbook, CRC Press, 2005.
•	Kececioglu, D. B. and Zishan, W., A New Robust Design Methodology to Improve the Reliability of Structural Beams, 2005 SAE World Congress, Detroit, MI, April 11-14, 2005, Paper 2005-01-0816.
•	Kececioglu, D. B., The Latest Engineering Design-by-Reliability Methodology Applied to an Electrical Component, Proceedings, 2nd Biannual International Reliability and Maintainability Conference and Exposition, Mexico D.F., June 9-11, 2004, 10 pp.
•	Kececioglu, D, B., The Latest Equipment Engineering Design-by-Reliability Methodology to Assure the Attainment of the Optimum Reliability Goal and Its Confidence Limits, Proceedings, 2nd Biannual International Reliability and Maintainability Conference and Exposition, Mexico D.F., June 9-11, 2004, 17 pp.
•	Li, Q. and Kececioglu, D. B., Optimal Design of Accelerated Degradation Tests¸ Int. J. Mater. Prod. Technol. 20:73-90, 2004.
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Robust Engineering Design-by-Reliability, Proceedings, SAE 2003 World Conference, March 3-6, 2003, 17 pp. [Keynote Address]
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Robust Engineering Design-by-Reliability, Vol. 1, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2003, 722 pp.
•	Kececioglu, D. B. and Sun, F.-B., Burn-In Testing: Its Quantification and Optimization, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2003, 698 pp. [reprinted with improvements].
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Maintainability, Availability and Operational Readiness Engineering Handbook, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2003, 803 pp. [reprinted with improvements].
•	Kececioglu, D. B. and Sun, F.-B., Environmental Stress Screening: Its Quantification, Optimization and Management, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2003, 548 pp. [reprinted with improvements].
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Reliability and Life Testing Handbook, Vol. 2, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2002, 900 pp. [reprinted with improvements].
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Reliability and Life Testing Handbook, Vol. 1, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2002, 960 pp. [reprinted with improvements].
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Reliability Engineering Handbook, Vol. 2, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2002, 568 pp. [reprinted with improvements].
•	Kececioglu, D. B., Reliability Engineering Handbook, Vol. 1, DEStech Publications, Inc., 2002, 720 pp. [reprinted with improvements].
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Patents

•	Four U.S. and one Canadian
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Registered Professional Engineering

•	Registered Engineer, California, 1978-date
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Consulting

•	Over 90 companies
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