ENRE -- Reliability Engineering
 

ENRE 400 Principles of Quality and Reliability in Engineering (3) Not open to reliability engineering graduate students. Introduction to the basic principles of reliability and quality. Quality topics include: quality loss function, causes of variation and variance reduction techniques, and quality control activities and process control charts. Reliability topics include: basic probability and statistics, component and system reliability models, reliability analysis tools and physics of failure in product development.

ENRE 467 System Safety Engineering (3) Prerequisites: MATH 246 and PHYS 263 or permission of department. Role of system safety, the language of system safety, and programs for achieving safety such as the problem solving process, safety criteria, safety descriptors, checklist-timeliness elements, safety training, hazard analysis, and uncertainty in safety measurements. Time-phased indicators, hazard nomenclature, hazard mode and effect analysis, hazard classification, hazard probability, survival rate, distributions applied to human performance.

ENRE 489 Special Topics in Reliability Engineering (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Selected topics of current importance in reliability engineering.

ENRE 600 Reliability Engineering (3) Prerequisite or Corequisite: ENRE 620. Organization, management and communication concepts in reliablity engineering. Mechanisms and physics of failure, methods for failure-rate determination. Methods of design for reliability and maintainability. Life cycle costing and equipment sparing policies. Measuring reliability for improvement.

ENRE 602 Reliability Analysis (3) Prerequisite or Corequisite: ENRE 620. Principal methods of reliability analysis, including fault tree and reliability block diagrams; Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA); event tree construction and evaluation; reliability data collection and analysis; methods of modeling systems for reliability analysis. Focus on problems related to process industries, fossil-fueled power plant availability, and other systems of concern to engineers.

ENRE 607 Reliability Engineering Seminar (1) Topics of current interest, emphasizing the latest techniques and developments. Invited speakers will be selected to provide insights from the viewpoint of practitioners noted for their expertise in various facets of industry. Managers of reliability programs will be included along with those who are responsible for setting national policies and requirements. In-depth reviews will be provided, describing current research work underway across the nation.

ENRE 620 Mathematical Techniques of Reliability Engineering (3) Basic probability and statistics (required for ENRE 600 and ENRE 602). Application of selected mathematical techniques to the analysis and solution of reliability engineering problems. Applications of matrices, vectors, tensors, differential equations, integral transforms, and probability methods to a wide range of reliability related problems.

ENRE 640 Collection and Analysis of Reliability Data (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 620 and ENRE 602. Basic life model concepts. Probabilistic life models, for components with both time independent and time dependent loads. Data analysis, parametric and nonparametric estimation of basic time-to-failure distributions. Data analysis for systems. Accelerated life models. Repairable systems modeling.

ENRE 642 Reliability Engineering Management (3) Unifying systems perspective of reliability engineering management. Design, development and management of organizations and reliability programs including: management of systems evaluation and test protocols, development of risk management-mitigation processes, and management of functional tasks performed by reliability engineers.

ENRE 648 Special Problems in Reliability Engineering (1-6) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. For students who have definite plans for individual study of approved problems. Credit given according to extent of work.

ENRE 650 Accelerated Testing (3) Prerequisite: ENRE 663. Models for life testing at constant stress. Graphical and analytical analysis methods. Test plans for accelerated testing. Competing failure modes and size effects. Models and data analyses for step and time varying stresses. Optimization of test plans.

ENRE 663 Advanced Reliability and Maintainability Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENRE 600. Reliability and maintainability concepts in conceptual, development, production, and deployment phases of industrial products. Costing of reliability, methods of obtaining approximate reliability estimates and confidence limits. Methods of reliability testing-current research and developments in the area of reliability engineering. Modern CAD techniques in reliability design, thermal analysis of circuit boards, vibration analysis, maintainability analysis, and preventive maintenance methods.

ENRE 665 Advanced Methods in Reliability Modeling (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 600 and 620.Bayesian methods and applications, estimation of rare event frequencies, uncertainty analysis and propagation methods, reliability analysis of dynamic systems, analysis of dependent failures, reliability of repairable systems, human reliability analysis methods, and theory of logic diagrams and application to systems reliability.

ENRE 670 Risk Assessment for Engineers (3) Prerequisite: ENRE 602. Why study risk, sources of risk, probabilistic risk assessment procedure, factors affecting risk acceptance, statistical risk acceptance analysis, psychometric risk acceptance, perception of risk, comparison or risks, consequence analysis, risk benefit assessment. Risk analysis performed for light water reactors, chemical industry, and dams. Class projects on risk management concepts.

ENRE 674 Failure Mechanisms and Effects Laboratory (3) Prerequisite: ENRE 600 or permission of instructor. Techniques for studying failure analysis, corrosion and corrosion protection, statistical process control, mechanical failure mode analysis, failure reporting and corrective action systems, and environmental stress screening.

ENRE 680 Advanced Product Assurance (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 600 and ENRE 602. Product assurance policies, objectives, and management. Material acquisition management, quality control documents and product assurance costing. Design input and process control, advanced testing technology, regression methods, and nondestructive testing. Simulation techniques, CAD/CAE methods. Software quality management, software documentation, and software testing methods. Total quality management.

ENRE 730 Bayesian Reliability Analysis (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 600 and ENRE 602. Foundations of Bayesian statistical inference, Bayesian inference in reliability, performing a Bayesian reliability analysis, Bayesian decision and estimation theory, prior distributions such as non-informative, conjugate, beta, gamma, and negative log gamma, estimation methods based on attribute life test data for estimating failure rates and survival probabilities. System reliability assessment and methods of assigning prior distribution. Empirical Bayes reliability estimates (implicity or explicitly estimated priors).

ENRE 732 Software Reliability and Integrity (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 602 and ENRE 620. Defining software reliability, initiatives and standards on software reliability, inherent characteristics of software which determine reliability, types of software errors, structured design, overview of software reliability models, software fault tree analysis, software redundancy, automating tools for software reliability protypes, and real time software reliability.

ENRE 734 Human Reliability Analysis (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 600 and ENRE 602; or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENRE 734 or ENSE 606. Methods of solving practical human reliability problems, the THERP, SLIM, OAT, and SHARP methods, performance shaping factors, human machine systems analysis, distribution of human performance and uncertainty bounds, skill levels, source of human error probability data, examples and case studies.

ENRE 740 Maintainability Engineering (3) Role of maintainability in readiness and profitability. Design principles, including fault tolerant design, FMECA for maintainability, maintainability quantification, establishing testability requirements, establishing hardware and software requirements, and reliability centered maintenance.

ENRE 750 Reliability and Quality in Microcircuit Manufacturing (3) Design and materials characteristics of microcircuits, including discrete chips, hybrids, printed wiring boards and electronic assemblies. Thermal design analysis. Common failure mechanisms, including metallization and interconnect degradation. Typical manufacturing processes and variability control. Design for reliability and manufacturability.

ENRE 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6)

ENRE 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8)