EAS 561 - Reliability Engineering
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4 |
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Spring |
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| Form of Delivery: |
Online |
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| Description: |
Failure is a fact of engineering. No product or system can be assumed to work correctly 100% of the time. The engineering effort to even attempt to design such a system would be both time and cost prohibitive. In light of that, the reliability of systems can not be ignored and must be studied to ensure, at least, we grasp the reality we are dealing with. This course provides an in depth study of the engineering and management of the reliability space. Including describing and quantifying reliability, as well as examining the modeling, test design, trade off analysis required of engineers involved with products and systems that do not perform 100% correct at all times. |
| Objectives: |
- Apply engineering knowledge and specialist techniques to prevent or to reduce the likelihood or frequency of failure.
- Identify and correct the causes of failures that do occur, despite efforts to prevent them.
- Determine ways of coping with failures that do occur, if their causes have not been corrected.
- Apply methods for estimating the likely reliability of new designs, and for analysis of reliability data.
- Understand and apply probabilistic and stochastic representations of reliability and failure
- Understand how disciplined maintenance and designing for maintainability can accomplish our objectives and provide a cost effect means to offset the lack of resources to design 100% reliable systems.
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| Text: |
Practical Reliability Engineering, P. O'Connor. 4th Edition
ISBN 0-470-84463-9 |
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