Reliability Engineering

Course ID:
IENG 434

Program:
Industrial Engineering

Level:
Undergraduate

Semester:
Spring/Fall

Credit:
3

Description

Description

This course introduces students to principles of reliability, failure rate and its Relation to reliability, probability Distribution of the Time to failure, Exponential and Weibull distributions, reliability of systems, series and parallel systems, stand by redundancy, systems mean Time to failure, mean residual life, reliability in design. Failure mode effect analysis, failure tree analysis, reliability Testing analysis, and warranty problems.

 

Lab and Tutorials

The course requires Practice and problem solving training during tutorials.

Literature

  • An Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, by C. E. Ebeling, McGraw-Hill (1997).
  • Planning and Control of Maintenance Systems: Modeling and Analysis, Duffuaa; A. Raouf and J. Campbell, John Wiley & Sons, (1999).