Engineering Reliability Analysis. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the use of statistical and computational techniques for uncertainty quantification and propagation, and for reliability assessment of engineering systems. This course provides insights and perspectives on the use of these tools in engineering decision-making, based on exemplar applications and case studies on engineering systems. This course will cover topics related to probability theory, random variables and probability distributions, functions of random variables, Monte-Carlo simulations, first-order reliability analysis, Markov chain and time-dependent reliability, and Bayesian updating. This course has Differential Tuition.