iSYS R&D Lab. - Researches

iSYS R&D (Intelligent SYStem Reliability & Design Laboratory)

Contact Info.

Byeng D. Youn

Tel: +1.301.405.7004

Fax: +1301.314.9477

Email: bdyoun@umd.edu

The iSYS R&D laboratory focuses primarily on researches as 1) Risk Analysis & Design, 2) Prognosis and Health Management(PHM), 3) Energy Harvester Design, and 4) Verification and Validation (V&V)

        1. Risk Analysis & Design

2. Prognosis and Health Management (PHM)

3. Energy Harvester Design

4. Verification and Validation (V&V)

Group News

●  2009

· MIPS Grant ($617,672): */Columbia-based PCTEST Engineering Laboratory, Inc. (www.pctestlab.com <http://www.pctestlab.com/>) and Byeng Youn, assistant professor, University of Maryland, College Park ($308,846)/*: developing a Smart Thermal Management (STM) platform to improve the safety and reliability of lithium batteries used in portable wireless devices, handsets, laptop computers, power tools, and automotive hybrid electric vehicles.

· MIPS Grant News came out and available at link (http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS74346+14-Jul-2009+PRN 200 90714)

· Professor Youn got Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Faculty Development Grant, 2009

· The paper titled "Optimal Design of Constrained-Layer Damping Structure Considering Variability in Material and Operational Condition" accepted by the AIAA Journal (Impact factor=1.025, 2008)

· The paper entitled "Robust segment-type energy harvester and its application to wireless sensor" was selected as a "Featured article" by the Smart Materials and Structures. (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/SMS and click on 'featured article')

· The paper entitled "Robust segment-type energy harvester and its application to wireless sensor" was published by the Smart Materials and Structures (SMS, Impact factor = 1.743, 2008) (http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/-ffissn=0964-1726/-ff30=all/0964-1726/18/9/095021/sms9_9_095021.pdf?request-id=9a472394-e4f5-4096-a789-acd461912296)

· The paper titled "Bayesian reliability analysis with evolving, insufficient, and subjective data sets" accepted by the Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME (Impact factor=1.532, 2008)

· The paper titled "Complementary Intersection Method (CIM) for system reliability analysis" accepted by the Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME (Impact factor=1.532, 2008)

· Dr. Lee's second baby was born.

· Pingfeng passed proposal defense (April. 30.2009, Title: A Paradigm Shit of System Design: Resilience-based System Design).

· Mr. Matthieu Giraud (ENSI BOURGES, FRANCE) joined for internship program from 06/08/09. His research topic is the design innovation of piezoelectric energy harvesting skin.

· Lulu takes GM internship (May-August, General Motors Technical Center, Warren, MI).

· Zhimin and Byungchang passed qualifying exam. (April. 03. 09).

· Journal article, “A Hierarchical Model Validation of Predictive Models for Engineering Product Design,” was nominated as the Best Paper at ASME IDETC this year. We have about 200 papers and only five of them are nominated this year.

· LG Electronics Grant ($40,000) awarded, starting from March 2009. It is titled as Reliability-Based Design for tolerance allocation in two-door refrigerator.

· Prof. Lee, Dooho went back to Korea after his sabbatical leave.

· Prof. Youn, Ping and Zhimin’s ASME best paper is recognized as the 2008 significant accomplishment in the Clark School of Engineering. You can find the news at http://www.eng.umd.edu/aboutus/accomplish/0109-faculty.html

· Ping won a future faculty fellowship in January.

· Lulu was informed of her summer intern at GM R&D Center in Summer.

●  2008

· Journal article, “Complementary Interaction Method (CIM) for System Reliability Assessment,” was accepted on Journal of Mechanical Design.

· LG Electronics project in 2008 was complete.

· Prof. Youn gave an invited talk (December 9) at NIST National Institute for Standards and Technology) titled "Sustainable energy harvesting for building automation". Dr. Lee, Soobum also attended the talk.

· Two patent applications were filed as follows:

§ “Energy Harvester using Vibration Energy in HVAC Systems,” B.D. Youn, S.B. Lee and B.C. Jung, Dec 2008, case # PS-2008-132

§ “Segment-type Energy Harvester,” B.D. Youn and S.B. Lee, Aug 2008, case # PS-2008-088

· Ping and Lulu passed their qualifying exam.

· Journal article, “Bayesian Reliability-Based Design Optimization Using Eigenvector Dimension Reduction (EDR) Method,” was published on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO)

· Journal article, “Reliability-Based Robust Design Optimization Using the Eigenvector Dimension Reduction (EDR) Method,” was published on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO)

· Journal article, “Eigenvector Dimension-Reduction (EDR) Method for Sensitivity-Free Uncertainty Quantification,” was published on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO)