Phone: (732)445-2033
E-mail: coit@rci.rutgers.edu
Office Location: Busch Campus, CoRE Building, Rm 214
Personal Homepage
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~coit

Bio

Dr. David W. Coit is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He conducts research in system reliability optimization, power systems reliability, and multiple objective optimization. He was awarded a NSF CAREER grant in 1999 to study system reliability optimization considering uncertainty and risk-aversion. He previously worked for more than ten years at IIT Research Institute (now called Alion Science & Technology), where he managed many research projects including several projects to develop reliability prediction models for the U. S. Air Force Rome Laboratory, and a multi-year project to optimize vehicle maintenance planning for the U. S. Marine Corps Logistics Base. He is a member of IIE and INFORMS.

Research Interest

System reliability modeling and optimization, risk analysis, power systems reliability, multiple objective optimization.

Professional Activities

Editorial board for the IIE Transactions from 1998 to present.
Department Editor for the IIE Transactions from 2005 to present.
Editorial board for Reliability Engineering and System Safety from 2003 to present.
Editorial board for Journal of Risk & Reliability from 2005 to present.
Senior Member, IIE
Member, INFORMS

Honors & Awards

• 1999 CAREER award from NSF
• P.K. McElroy Award for the outstanding paper at RAMS, “Reliability Prediction Prioritization Strategy,” (with A. Smith), 2000 Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS).
• Golomski Award for the outstanding paper by an IIE member at RAMS,“Reliability Improvement of Airport Ground Transportation Vehicles Using Neural Networks to Anticipate System Failure,” (with A. Smith), 2002 Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS).
• Alan O. Plait Tutorial Excellence Award  for the tutorial entitled "Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods in Reliability" given at the 2008 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS).

  
  
  

Representative Publications

Full list can be found at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~coit/pubs.htm

"Optimization of System Reliability in the Presence of Common Cause Failures," Jose Ramirez-Marquez & David Coit, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 92, No. 10, October 2007.

"Data Clustering of Solutions for Multiple Objective System Reliability Optimization Problems," Heidi Taboada & David Coit, Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, vol. 4, no. 2, June 2007.

"Component Criticality Importance Measures for the Power Industry," Jose Espiritu, David Coit & Upyukt Prakash, Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 77, no. 5-6, April 2007.

"Practical Solutions for Multi-Objective Optimization: An Application to System Reliability Design Problems," Heidi Taboada, Fatema Baheranwala, David Coit & Naruemon Wattanapongsakorn, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 92, no. 3, March 2007.

“A Bayesian Approach to Severity Assessment in Risk Modeling: An Aviation Safety Application,” Denise Andres, James Luxhoj & David Coit, Human Factors & Aerospace Safety, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007.

"Multiple Weighted Objectives Heuristic for the Redundancy Allocation Problem," David Coit & Abdullah Konak, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 55, no. 3, September 2006.

"Multi-Objective Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms: A Tutorial," Abdullah Konak, David Coit & Alice Smith, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 91, no. 9, September 2006.

"A Generalized Multistate-Based Path Vector Approach for Multistate Two-Terminal Reliability," Jose Ramirez-Marquez, David Coit & Michael Tortorella, IIE Transactions, vol. 38, no. 6, June 2006.

"A Method for Correlating Field Life Degradation with Reliability Prediction for Electronic Modules," David Coit, John Evans, Nathan Vogt & James R. Thompson, Quality & Reliability Engineering International, vol. 21, no. 7, November 2005.

"Composite Importance Measures for Multistate Systems with Multistate Components," Jose Ramirez-Marquez & David Coit, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 54, no. 3, September 2005.

"System Optimization Considering Component Reliability Estimation Uncertainty: A Multi-Criteria Approach," David Coit, Tongdan Jin & Naruemon Wattanapongsakorn, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 53, no. 3, September 2004.

"Test Plan Allocation to Minimize System Reliability Estimation Variability," Jose Ramirez-Marquez, David Coit & Tongdan Jin, International Journal of Reliability, Quality & Safety Engineering, vol. 11, no. 3, September 2004.

"Reliability Optimization of Series-Parallel Systems Using a Max-Min Approach," Jose Ramirez-Marquez, David Coit & Abdullah Konak, IIE Transactions, vol. 36, no. 9, September 2004.

"Exploiting Tabu Search Memory in Constrained Problems," Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Bryan Norman, David Coit & Alice Smith, INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer 2004.

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