[M]ultiple colleagues from General Electric pointed to UMD as the best school for reliability...
Daniel Nunez
Reliability Engineer at GE Healthcare
M.Eng in Reliability Engineering
I started my professional career as an Electronic Controls Design Engineer at GE Appliances where I learned about reliability and electromagnetic compatibility, which I didn’t had any experience from school. I moved to GE Healthcare to work as a System Integration Engineer for the X-Ray Generators team. While doing that I identified a gap on design for reliability and brought the good practices from GE Appliances that were eventually adopted by the generators team. From my own initiative I shifted my role into improving the power converters design for better reliability and electromagnetic compatibility with the rest of the system.
I became the reliability lead for a Computed Tomography X-Ray Generation project in which I did extensive field data analysis to have an accurate usage profile, and design reliability tests based on clinical use flow down to component stresses and failure mechanisms. During this time, I decided to specialize in reliability and started the Master of Engineering program in Reliability at the University of Maryland. By the time I graduated from UMD, I was working on building test systems and developing new test protocols for Magnetic Resonance Imaging using the clinical use approach.
Why Maryland?
While working on electronic controls reliability I got to use the services available from the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) to make root cause analysis of electronic component failures. The experience pointed to UMD as the place to study reliability with focus on electronic component failures, and maybe even work in projects with CALCE. Also, multiple colleagues from General Electric pointed to UMD as the best school for reliability at the time.
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