First Presentation: Effective Failure Reduction with RED (Risk in Early Design) by Katie Grantham Lough, Ph.D., University of Missouri - Rolla.
Second Presentation: Dialogic Approaches to Organizational Learning and Effectiveness by Ray Luechtefeld, Ph.D., University of Missouri - Rolla.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Sheraton Lakeside Chalet at Westport
191 Westport Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63146
(314) 878-1500
- 5:30 – 6:00 pm: Registration & Social
- 6:00 – 7:00 pm: First Presentation - Effective failure reduction with RED presented by Dr. Katie Grantham Lough
- 7:00 – 8:00 pm: Dinner & Section Business
- 8:00 – 9:00 pm: Second Presentation - Dialogic approaches to organizational learning presented by Dr. Ray Luechtefeld
Please register by Monday, September 17, by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on safe and secure web environment.
Starting this year, members registering and pre-paying online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $20
You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.
Map to Sheraton Lakeside Chalet, Westport
Driving Directions
From Lambert International Airport to Sheraton Lakeside Chalet
- Head toward the I-70W entry ramp and go onto I-70W - go 3.6 mi
- Take exit 232 to merge onto I-270 S toward Memphis - go 2.6 mi
- Take exit 17 for Dorsett Rd - go 0.2 mi
- Turn left at Dorsett Rd go - 0.1 mi
- Turn right at Progress Pkwy go - 0.9 mi
- Continue on Westport Plaza go - 0.1 mi
- Arrive at 191 Westport Plaza Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146
About the Presentations
First Presentation:
Effective Failure Reduction with RED (Risk in Early Design)
Presented by Katie Grantham Lough, Ph.D.
This presentation will discuss problems with state of the art failure analysis techniques. Also, the presentation will demonstrate the RED method to assist with some of the existing drawbacks of failure analysis. RED is a risk assessment method that can be applied as early as the conceptual design phase with minimal functional information needed from the product undergoing analysis. In order to mitigate risk and failures RED links failures to product function. The failure linkage also exists between product components so that as the design matures, so can the FMEA analysis. These linkages provide designers the ability to use catalogued historical failures as to prevent failures in new designs or redesigns. RED reuses failure information via matrix manipulations which calculate preliminary risk likelihood and consequence for specific areas of a product. This information is used to contribute significantly to initializing an FMEA. The information automatically pinpoints and ranks areas of concern in the product so that engineers can focus the significant portion of their efforts on risk mitigation.
Dr. Grantham Lough joined the Interdisciplinary Engineering Department of the University of Missouri - Rolla as an Assistant Professor in January of 2006. At UMR she develops and applies risk assessment methodologies to product design principles. These methodologies are aimed at educating novice engineers about critical issues in the design process. Before joining the UMR faculty, Dr. Grantham Lough served as a research scientist for 21st Century Systems where she currently holds a part time position. As part of 21st Century Systems she has added risk assessment techniques to their existing defense software products. Also, she was involved with projects to identify both hardware and software failures in mechatronic systems.
Second Presentation:
Dialogic approaches to organizational learning and effectiveness
Presented by Ray Luechtefeld, Ph.D.
Ray will present a common focus on the centrality of communication and dialogue to organization to increase team effectiveness. Fairly simple interventions in a conversation can significantly improve team performance. An experiment involving more than one hundred teams working in a problem-solving simulation showed that exposure to these interventions improved the quantitative measure of team performance. Improved team performance is the result of an improved ability to constructively handle conflict. Teams exposed to interventions are able to share information more effectively and come up with win-win solutions more readily than teams not exposed to the interventions.
Dr. Luechtefeld is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering in the University of Missouri - Rolla. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla, his MBA from the University of Minnesota, and his Ph.D. from Boston College. Dr. Luechtefeld has nine years of industrial experience as a Development Engineer with IBM. He has consulted to numerous businesses and organizations and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Please register by Monday, September 17, by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on safe and secure web environment.
Starting this year, members registering and pre-paying online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $20
You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.
