Design for Reliability (DFR) has become a worldwide goal regardless of the industry. The engineering managers are intent on harvesting the value proposition for competing globally while significantly lowering the life cycle costs. The DFR principles ... are based on proactively preventing hardware failures, software failures, and product malfunctions. Most experienced engineers are expert in a segment of the field, and need to understand the entire field. This is obvious from the NASA Challenger accident, and millions of automobiles recalled by Toyota, GM, and Volkswagen. This science of engineering requires creativity and innovative skills to aim at zero failures and elegant solutions that cost less, which is the aim of this course.

Spring 2025 TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm Reuel Smith
Basic probability and statistics. 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.
Also offered as: ENNU620.

Spring 2025 F 9:00am - 11:40am Vasiliy Krivtsov
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.
Prerequisite: ENRE602.

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. ...
Credit only granted for: ENRE641 or ENRE650. Formerly: ENRE650.

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.

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.
Prerequisite: ENRE600 and ENRE602; or permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department. Credit only granted for: ENRE645 or ENRE734. Formerly: ENRE734.

Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. For students who have definite plans for individual study of faculty-approved problems. Credit given according to extent of work.

(ENME737) An enabling discipline consisting of technologies and methods to assess the reliability of a product in its actual life cycle conditions to determine the advent of failure and mitigate system risk. PHM permits the reliability of a ... system to be evaluated and predicted in its actual application conditions. In recent years, prognostics and health management (PHM) has emerged as a key enabling technology to provide an early warning of failure; to forecast maintenance as needed; to reduce maintenance cycles; to assess the potential for life extensions; and to improve future designs and qualification methods. In future, PHM will enable systems to assess their own real-time performance (self-cognizant health management and diagnostics) under actual usage conditions and adaptively enhance life cycle sustainment with risk-mitigation actions that will virtually eliminate unplanned failures.

(ENME737) An enabling discipline consisting of technologies and methods to assess the reliability of a product in its actual life cycle conditions to determine the advent of failure and mitigate system risk. PHM permits the reliability of a ... system to be evaluated and predicted in its actual application conditions. In recent years, prognostics and health management (PHM) has emerged as a key enabling technology to provide an early warning of failure; to forecast maintenance as needed; to reduce maintenance cycles; to assess the potential for life extensions; and to improve future designs and qualification methods. In future, PHM will enable systems to assess their own real-time performance (self-cognizant health management and diagnostics) under actual usage conditions and adaptively enhance life cycle sustainment with risk-mitigation actions that will virtually eliminate unplanned failures.

Spring 2025 W 1:00pm - 3:40pm Yunfei Zhao
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.
Prerequisite: ENRE602. Credit only granted for: ENRE655 or ENRE665. Formerly: ENRE665.

Spring 2025 Th 3:00pm - 5:40pm Mohammad Modarres
Why study risk, sources of risk, overview of Risk Assessment and Risk Management, relation to System Safety and Reliability Engineering; measures, representation, communication, and perception of risk; overview of use of risk assessment results ... in decision making; overview of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) process; detailed converge of PRA methods including (1) methods for risk scenario development such as identification of initiators, event sequence diagrams, event trees, causal modeling (fault trees, influence diagrams, and hybrid methods), and simulation approaches; (2) methods of risk scenario likelihood assessment, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as uncertainty modeling and analysis. Also covers methods for risk modeling of system hardware behavior, physical phenomena, human behavior, software behavior, organizational environment, and external physical environment. Additional core topics include risk model integration and quantification (Boolean-based, binary decsion diagram, Bayesian belief networks, and hybrid methods), simulation-based Dynamic PRA methods (discrete and continuous) and several examples of large scale PRAs for space missions, nuclear power, aviation and medical systems.
Prerequisite: ENRE602. Also offered as: ENNU651. Credit only granted for: ENNU651 or ENRE670.

General Mechanical
In the course of engineering design, project management, and other functions, engineers have to make decisions, almost always under time and budget constraints. Managing risk requires making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This course ... will cover material on individual decision making, group decision making, and organizations of decision-makers. The course will present techniques for making better decisions, for understanding how decisions are related to each other, and for managing risk.
Prerequisite: ENRE670. Credit only granted for: ENRE648W or ENRE671. Formerly: ENRE648W.

This course is divided into three major components: overview, detailed concepts and implementation techniques. The topics to be covered are: general security concerns and concepts from both a technical and management point of view, principles ... of security, architectures, access control and multi-level security, trojan horses, covert channels, trap doors, hardware security mechanism, security models, security kernels, formal specifications and verification, networks and distribution systems and risk analysis.
Credit only granted for: ENRE648J or ENRE684. Formerly: ENRE648J.