Industry Leader Biography for
Gilbert L. Scott
 | Gilbert L. Scott |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Title | Validation Engineer, Roche Diagnostics (Retired) |
| Expertise | Engineering (reliability and test) |
| Current Organization | Roche Diagnostics |
| Type of Organization | Research and development |
| Major Product | Development of blood glucose meters |
| Area of Distribution | International |
| University/Degree | B.S., Economics, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1952 |
| Born | February 21, 1930, Jacksonville, Florida |
| Honors & Awards | American Biographical Institute: Man of the Year 2003; International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England: Lifetime Achievement Award and DaVinci Diamond for Outstanding Contribution to Reliability Engineering |
| Hobbies & Sports | Ballroom dancing, boating, swimming, theatre |
| Career Accomplishments | As a Reliability Engineer he developed field failure rate prediction methods for manufacturing and environmental related field failures; He introduced to Roche Diagnostics techniques for measuring the impact of manufacturing and environment on field failure rates; He also introduced analytical techniques for measuring life test results |
| Work History | He joined RCA in June 1952 as a Quality Control Engineer; He was drafted into the Army in July 1952 where he functioned as a Radio Operator; In June 1954 he was discharged and resumed his career with RCA in the Electron Tube Division; He worked until 1958 as a QC Engineer in the parts preparation area of an electron tube plant when he transferred into the Manufacturing Engineering Department; The Indiana tube plant was merged with a New Jersey tube plant in 1962; He participated in the successful transfer of the filament coating and winding operations to the New Jersey facility; He was transferred from the parts preparation area to the finishing area in 1966; In his capacity as a Finishing Engineer, he developed the technique of square wave analysis of high screen current rejects in electron tubes; He was transferred in 1977 to the Consumer Electronics Division's corporate office in Indianapolis; He worked as a Reliability Engineer on TV sets until 1998, where he improved printed circuit board layouts for reliability and manufacturing; He also participated on a wave solder improvement task force; He left RCA in 1998 to work for Roche Diagnostics as a Reliability and Validation Engineer in design quality for blood glucose meters; He retired from Roche in Feb. 2003 |
| Children | Dawn Truax, Marc Scott (deceased), Gary Scott, Keith Scott, Richard Scott; Grandchildren: Kyle, Brittany, Jake, Audrey; Great-grandchildren: Brielle Walton, Jacqueline Truax |
| Spouse | Donna L. Scott |
| Married | February 21, 1962 |
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