Biography

Dr. Safie currently serving as an Adjunct Professor in the Systems Engineering Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He is also serving as a principal reliability engineer at APT-Research. Dr. Safie retired from NASA after 31 years of service as the NASA Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Engineering Technical Fellow. During his career at NASA, Dr. Safie received many Honors and Awards including the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal, the NASA Flight Safety Award, the NASA Quality Assurance Special Achievement Recognition (QASAR) Award, and the NASA Silver Snoopy Award. He published over 40 papers in Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Engineering, Systems Engineering, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, System Safety, Quality Engineering, and Computer Simulation. Dr. Safie has a Bachelor degree in science, a Bachelor, a Master, and a Doctorate in engineering

Education

• Ph. D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Cleveland State University, 1985
• MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Cleveland State University, 1981
• BS, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio University, 1980

Affiliations

• Society for Reliability Engineers
• International Advancement for Space Safety (IAASS)

Expertise

• Systems Engineering
• Reliability Engineering
• Quality Engineering

Recent Publications

• "Lessons Learned in Physics Based Reliability”, Society for Reliability Engineers, Huntsville, Alabama, 2020

• “Model Based Mission Assurance”, RAM XII Summit, Huntsville, Alabama, 2019.

• “Addressing Uniqueness and Unison of Reliability and Safety for Better Integration”. International System Safety Society” Huntsville,