• PI, National Science Foundation DMS Grant ``Degradation Modeling, Reliability Analysis, and Quality Improvment'' 2002-2004.
• PI, Ford Motor Company URP Grant  ``Analytical Reliability and Robustness Enhancements for Physical Test Reduction.'' 1999-2001.
• PI, National Science Foundation DMS Grant ``Statistics in Advanced Manufactturing'' 1998-2002.
• Co-PI, National Science Foundation DMII Grant ``Proactive Maintenance: Integration of Engineering, Statistics and Operations Research,1997-2001
• PI, National Science Foundation  DMII Grant ``Quality Technology for Variation Reduction,'' 1995-98.
• Co-PI, DOD  and ARPA Grant ``MURI Center for Intelligent Electronics Manufacturing,'' 1995-97.
• Co-PI, National Science Foundation DMS Grant ``Design and Analysis of Experiments and Inference in Reliability Studies,'' 1994-97.

Ph. D. STUDENTS:

• Hong (Laura) Lu, "Inference for Acceleration Transforms in Stress Testing and Applications to Reliability Kinetic Models" 1996.
• Jinzhong (Jason) Liao (joint with J. Faraway), "Inference for Linear and Nonlinear Calibration Problems" 1997.
• Julie Bérubé (joint with J. Wu), "Models, Analysis, and Estimation Efficiency for Robust Parameter Design Experiments" 1997.
• Chuanguo (Steve) Wang,  "Modeling Temporally Dependent Ordinal Data" 1999
• Xiaobin Dong, "Contributions to Statistical Process Control and Robust Parameter Design" 1999.
• Lian Xu, "Contributions to Some Statistical Problems in Advanced Manufacturing" 2000.
• William Brenneman, "Inference for Location and Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Factorial Experiments" 2000.
• Vadim Kutsyy, "Modeling and Inference for Spatially Dependent Ordinal Processes" 2001.
• David Mease
• Ajita Gopikrishnan
• Bowei Xi (joint with George Michailidis)
• Xiao Wang
• Earl Lawrence (joint with George Michailidis)