Classes in ENRE
| ENRE600 | Reliability Engineering (3 credits) | |
| Prerequisite: 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. Those sections that begin with a letter are taught via ITV and are not i ntended for College Park campus students. | ||
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| ENRE602 | Reliability Analysis (3 credits) | |
| Prerequisite: 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. Those sections that begin with a letter are taught via ITV and are not i ntended for College Park campus students. | ||
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| ENRE670 | Risk Assessment for Engineers I (3 credits) | |
| Prerequisite: ENRE 602. Also offered as ENNU 651. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENNU 651 or ENRE 670. 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. | ||
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