Join us in welcoming Fengbin “Frank” Sun, Technical Lead and Principal Engineer of Reliability Engineering, as he discusses his exciting career at Tesla. Alums and friends of the program are always welcome.
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Reliability Engineering – An Exciting Career and Adventure in Tesla
Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that people didn’t need to compromise to drive electric – that electric vehicles can be better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars. Today, Tesla builds not only all-electric vehicles (Roadster, Model S, Model X, Model 3, Model Y, Semi Truck, and Cyber Truck), but also infinitely scalable clean energy generation (Solar Roof) and storage products (Power Wall, Power Pack, etc.). They are built by our Fremont Factory, Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, and Gigafactory Shanghai, Gigafactory Berlin, and Gigafactory Texas, etc. Tesla believes the faster the world stops relying on fossil fuels and moves towards a zero-emission future, the better.
Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. To accomplish this mission, safety and reliability are extremely important and critical. This talk will give a brief introduction of Tesla culture, major product lifecycle reliability activities and departments, including data-driven and model-driven (failure physics driven) Design for Reliability, Manufacturing Reliability, Field Reliability, etc. For those who are interested in joining Tesla Reliability family as fulltime engineer or intern, this presentation will also touch upon skills and qualifications we are looking for.
Frank Sun is currently a Technical Lead and Principal Reliability Engineer at Tesla Inc. with over 30 years of industry and academia experience. He has published two books and more than 50 papers in various areas of reliability, maintainability and quality engineering. Sun served in the editorial board as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Reliability from 1999 to 2003 and from 2016 to 2023, Program Chair of ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design since 2014, and a committee member and session moderator of numerous international conferences on reliability. He received his Ph.D. in Reliability from University of Arizona and is a senior member of ASQ and the President of Society of Reliability Engineers Silicon (SRE) Valley Chapter. Sun received the RAMS 2013 A.O. Plait Best Tutorial Award, RAMS 2020 P.K. McElroy Best Paper Award, and RAMS 2024 Doug Ogden Best Paper Award by an SRE Member.
