Statistical Methods for Reliability Engineering
Course Outline

Section 1:   Introduction  
Reading:   Browse through the Reliability Internet Links provided. Also, Chapters 1 and 14, Text. Moreover, you may want to browse through the Body of Knowledge of the Certified Reliability Engineer produced by ASQ.

Section 2:   Failure Models  
Reading:   Chapter 2, Text. You may also find useful the study of the "Gallery of Distributions" (Sec. 1.3.6.6) of the NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook.
Homework 1:  

Section 3:   Qualitative System Analysis  
Reading:   Chapter 3, Text. You may also find useful the study of the SEMATECH FMEA Guide, the NASA FTA Handbook , and the FTA Tutorial by Prof. J. Andrews.
Homework 1 (contd):  

Section 4:   Reliability Apportionment  
Reading:   Chapter 4, Text. You may also find useful the study of the RBD Presentation by Prof. M. Yin and browsing through (and doing some computer experiments with) the Raptor Tutorial Workbook
Homework 2:  

Section 5:   Component Importance  
Reading:   Chapter 5, Text.
Homework 2 (contd):  

Section 6:   Dependent Failures  
Reading   Chapter 6, Text.
Homework 3:  

Section 7:   Reliability Modeling: Counting Processes  
Reading:   Chapter 7, Text.
Homework 4:  

Section 8:   Reliability Modeling: Markov Processes and Monte Carlo Simulation  
Guest Lecture:   Jim Breneman, P&W Fellow (10/30/2007)
Reading:   Chapter 8, Text.
Homework 4 (contd):  

Section 9:   Reliability of Maintained Systems  
Reading:   Chapter 9, Text.
Homework 5:  

Section 10:   TBA  
Reading:  

Section 11:   Final Exam - In Class -  

 

Updated: 2007-11-26, 15:23