Dr. Das to Present Short Courses in Chennai, India On July 15-17, 2008, Dr. Das will present a two day workshop on Physics of Failure and Reliability and one day workshop on Health Management and Prognostics at Chennai, India. The PoF and Reliability workshop will cover classical reliability concepts and relates the concepts to the physics of failure approach. The information provided will be useful for implementing a physics-of-failure methodology for the product life-cycle. The participants will learn how to develop and migrate to physics-of-failure based product development tools and methods helping them to improve product reliability, reduce development cost and time, and improve time to profit. The Health Management and Prognostics will present the tools and techniques for development and implementation of prognostics and health monitoring in terms of novel methods for in-situ monitoring, approaches for resource efficient data collection, algorithms for data reduction and parameter extraction, methods for identifying and analyzing precursors based on failure mechanisms and techniques for predictions that can be used for assisting maintenance and logistics decisions. Different approaches for prognostics are presented along with implementation case-studies. More details about these workshops are available at http://www.componex-nepcon.com/images/componex_series_of_workshop.pdf .