Michael Pecht

Michael Pecht is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Maryland University, USA. He is the founder and director of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering at UMD, funded by over 150 of the world's leading electronics companies. He is an EEE fellow, an ASME fellow, an SAE fellow, and an IMAPS fellow and was editor-in-chief of Microelectronics Reliability for 16 years. He has written more than 40 books on his research areas of product reliability, development, use, and supply chain management and consults for 22 major international electronics companies. In 1999, he devised Pecht's Law providing an estimate of semiconductor device reliability trends and the requirements for accelerated testing.