QIDEC was originally established with the goal of "developing additional knowledge and an improved engineering educational system to help prevent our loss of manufacturing capability and decrease our liability problems related to failures" within the engineering community in the U.S. The center expanded the goal to address the shorter tem needs of industry and government in their increasing efforts to regain control over technical issues affecting product quality, safety and reliability, and organizational productivity. Work is centered on three major industrial sectors:

1. Medical device reliability
2. Aircraft and aerospace structural integrity
3. Structural fatigue and reliability of mechanical systems

Quality and Integrity Design 89-90
Quality and Integrity Design 90-91

Highlights

• License agreements with FASIDE Int'l and Technology Managment Assoc.

Spin Out Companies

• FASIDE International
• HOLSIP (organization)

Benefiting Companies

• Technology Management Associates

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