1. Course Instructor fschenke@umd.edu
Fred Schenkelberg (408) 710-8248
Course Outline:
Introduction and design for reliability
Value of reliability to business
Evaluating the maturity of reliability approach
Engineering approaches to product reliability
Setting reliability goals and apportionment
Building a reliability plan
Identifying risks to reliability goal
Using HALT and its benefits
Using ALT and other reliability testing
Using product level reliability models
Sample sizes and a few trade-offs
Encouraging use of FA and FRACAS
Making good measurements
Considerations in thermal design
Understanding stress/strength and derating
Considering the product’s environment
Managing the supplier’s reliability program
Building a reliability culture in an organization
Review
Course Syllabus
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.
The course has an emphasis on understanding the value of reliability activities within the entire product life-cycle. Case studies
of actual organizations focused on determining the key considerations when attempting to improve the organization’s ability to
produce reliable products.
Summer 2018
ENRE642
Schedule:
Section 0101
Meets live MTuWThF 9am -3pm
5/29/18 - 6/11/18
Section ER01 &
Section RE01
Online
5/29/18 - 8/17/18
Grading:
Homework 20%
Mid Term 25%
Project 25%
Final 30%
REGISTER at www.TESTUDO.umd.edu
Reliability Engineering
Management