SENG 665: Reliability Engineering
This course will provide the students with the tools and techniques that can be used early in the design phase to effectively influence a design from the perspective of system reliability, maintainability, and availability. An overview of the system’s functional analysis and system architecture development heuristics will be provided. Further, the students will learn to exploit the use of state-of-the-art techniques such as fault tree analysis and Bayesian networks for reliability analysis. Students completing this course will have a good understanding of the actions and goals of a reliability program and will become familiar with current techniques and their use. Examples will cover a range of different applications with the objective of helping the student to appreciate the challenges in the varied components of complex products and engineering systems.