Physics-of-Failure Lab

Department of Mechanical Engineering, SUNY Korea

Physics-of-Failure (PoF)

is an engineering-based approach to reliability that uses modeling and simulation to eliminate failures and optimize design by addressing root-cause failure mechanisms.

Current research interest of PoF lab includes;

Reliability assessment,
Life prediction and model development,
Accelerated life test (ALT) design,
Prognostics and health management (PHM),
Design-for-reliability (DfR), and
Measurement and analysis of failure.

Recent News from Lab

Summer 2025 Lab Seminar and Farewell Party

August 2025

Summer Outgoing at Baseball Park

July 2025

Excellent Poster Presentation Award Winner

Junseop Lee, Ernesto Miguel Coloso, and Changwoon Han were awarded the 'Excellent Poster Presentation Award' from the Society of PHM Korea for theirpresentation at the PHM Korea 2024 in June 2025.

June 2025

Distiguished Service Award

Changwoon Han was awarded the “Distinguished Service Award” by the Society of PHM Korea in June 2025. This award was presented in recognition of the significant contributions made to the advancement of the society as the President in 2024.

June 2025

Winter 2025 Lab Seminar 2

Feburary 2025

Winter 2025 Lab Seminar 1

December 2024

Best Paper Award

JiMin Shin and Changwoon Han were awarded the “Best Paper Award in 2024 Annual Spring Conference of the Reliability Division in KSME” by the Society of KSME in July 2024. The title of the paper “Parametric Study of Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors for Electric Vehicle Application Using Numerical Analysis."

July 2024

Research Excellent Award

Changwoon Han was awarded “KSME Research Excellence Award on Reliability in 2024” from the Society of KSME in March 2024. The award is given to the member of society who have made significant contributions in the fields of reliability engineering in 2023.

March 2024

Seminar Invited

Seminar at Hyundai on Feb 2024

Feb 2024

Best Paper Award

Suyeon Lee, Seungil Park, and Changwoon Han were awarded the “Best Paper Award” from the 14th International Symposium on NDT in Aerospace in Busan, Korea, November 5-8, 2023.

Nov 2023

KSME-LG Future Home Tech Challenge

JiMin Shin, Kent Justine Legada, Jaewon Lee, Juhwan Kim, and Seungil Park, a combined graduate/undergraduate team from the PoF lab, received an “Encouragement Award at the KSME-LG Future Home Tech Challenge” in Nov. 2023. This event, co-hosted by LG

Nov 2023

Best Paper Award

Kent Legada and Changwoon Han were awarded the “Best Paper Award” from the 14th International Symposium on NDT in Aerospace in Busan, Korea, November 5-8, 2023.

Nov 2023

Excellent Poster Presentation Award Winner

Suyeon Lee, a graduate student in the lab, was awarded the 'Excellent Poster Presentation Award' from the Society of PHM Korea for her presentation at the PHM Korea 2023 in July 2023.

July 2023

PHM Korea 2023

July 3-5, 2023 at Seoul

Prof. Han serves as Chair.

Excellent Dissertation Award Winner

Suyeon Lee, a graduate student in the lab, was awarded the 'Excellent Dissertation Award' from the Society of KSME for her Master's Degree Dissertation in March 2023 at the Spring Conference of the Reliability Division of KSME.

March 2023

Young Reseaerch Award Winner

Suyoen, a graduate student in the lab, was awarded the "Young Researcher Award " from the 6th International Conference on Materials and Reliability in Japan,

November 2022.

Research Excellence Award Winner

Prof. Han was awarded the “KSME Research Excellence Award on Experimental Mechanics in Materials and Fracture Engineering and Reliability Engineering in 2022” from the Society of KSME. The award is given to a member of society who has made significant contributions to the development of experimental mechanics in the fields of materials and fracture and reliability.

March 2022

Best Paper Award Winnder

Seungil, Suyeon, and Prof. Han were awarded “Best Paper Award in 2021 Annual Spring Conference” from the Reliability Division of KSME. The award is presented to one of the best papers among 2021 Annual Spring Conference of the Reliability Division of KSME. The title of the paper is “Failure Analysis of Si Solar Module under Thermal Cycling Using Electroluminescence Method”.

March 2022