ReliaSoft Consulting Services - Duane L. Dietrich

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Dr. Duane L. Dietrich
Director of Consulting Services, ReliaSoft Corporation

Dr. Dietrich is the Director of ReliaSoft Consulting Services and Professor Emeritus of the Systems and Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Mines, The University of Arizona. During his 30 years on the faculty his teaching responsibilities were in the areas of statistical quality control, reliability, and engineering statistics. He was the first faculty member in the college of engineering to have his courses televised. His courses were televised for 25 consecutive years to numerous government and industrial sites across the USA. He has received five teaching related awards, including the Tau Beta Pi 'Professor of the Year Award' the first year it was given at the University of Arizona. Dr. Dietrich's research is and was in the applications of economic methods in statistical quality control, applications of Bayesian statistics in system reliability assessment, environmental stress screening, reliability degradation and large scale systems analysis. He has published over 50 papers and graduated 9 Ph.D. students.

Prior to entering graduate school he was employed for five years as a project engineer in environmental test and evaluation at the US Naval Missile Center, Point Mugu, California. He has served as a consultant to numerous companies and government agencies both nationally and internationally. Some of his more notable clients have been the US Army, the US Navy, IBM, Motorola, and Xerox.

Dr. Dietrich has taught over 60 short courses in the areas of Engineering Statistics, Statistical Process Control, Concepts of Reliability, Reliability Testing and Large Scale Reliability Systems Analysis. His Reliability Concepts course has been taught over 30 times at 15 different government and industrial locations both nationally and internationally. In addition, during the summer of 1988, Dr. Dietrich organized, coordinated and taught in a one month Reliability and Maintainability Design Workshop, for college professors, presented at the Air Force Institute of Technology.

He was Charter Chairman of the Tucson Section of the American Society for Quality Control. He has served as Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Statistics Committee, and as Secretary of the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality Control. He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Reliability and has served in this capacity for eight years. He was also a guest co-editor for a special issue of the IIE Transaction devoted to reliability and quality.