Classes in ENRE
| ENRE447 | Fundamentals of Reliability Engineering (3 credits) | |
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENRE445 or ENRE447. Formerly ENRE445. Topics covered include: fundamental understanding of how things fail, probabilistic models to represent failure phenomena, life-models for non-repairable items, reliability data collection and analysis, software reliability models, and human reliability models. | ||
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| ENRE641 | Accelerated Testing (3 credits) | |
| Prerequisite: ENRE 663 or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENRE 641 or ENRE 650. Formerly ENRE650. Models for life testing at constant stress. Graphical and analytical methods. Test plans for accelerated testing. Competing failure modes and size effects. Models and data analyses for step and time varying stresses. Optimizing of test plans. | ||
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| ENRE655 | Advanced Methods in Reliability Modeling (3 credits) | |
| Prerequisite: ENRE 602. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENRE 655 or ENRE 665. Formerly ENRE 665. 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. | ||
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| ENRE671 | Risk Assessment for Engineers II (3 credits) | |
| Prerequisite: ENRE 670. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENRE 648W or ENRE 671. Formerly ENRE 648W. Advanced techniques for performing quantitative risk assessment will be covered. The fundamental theory of systems risk modeling, methods for vulnerability identification, risk scenario development and probability assessment are presented. Also covered are methods for risk results presentation and several example applications. | ||
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