L Berkley Davis Copyright 2009 MER301: Engineering Reliability1 L Berkley Davis, Jr GE Energy

L Berkley Davis Copyright 2009 MER301- Engineering Reliability  A basic engineering science course concerned with the application of probabilistic methods to engineering design and analysis. The course material includes probability, basic engineering statistics, reliability, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and measurement system analysis. Classroom lectures are supplemented with team exercises where the various methods are applied.

L Berkley Davis Copyright 2009 MER301- Course Objectives and Outcomes  Satisfactory Completion of this course should demonstrate that students have the ability to: Understand and apply basic probability theory Understand and apply fundamental statistical methods, including the use of normal, binomial, exponential, poisson, lognormal and weibull distributions to solve engineering problems Understand and apply the principles of statistical inference and hypothesis testing to engineering problems Understand simple and multiple linear regression analysis and be able to apply these techniques to engineering problems Understand and be able to apply Design of Experiments methodology Understand and be able to apply Measurement System Analysis

L Berkley Davis Copyright 2009 MER301: Engineering Reliability4 Course Outline  Text- Engineering Statistics(5 th ED) by Montgomery, Runger, Hubele Material from Chapters 1-7  Probability  Reliability  Measurement System Analysis

L Berkley Davis Copyright 2009 MER301: Engineering Reliability5 Course Administration  Three Open Book(not notes) Exams Exam Dates are Apr 20, May 16, and ~June 6  Ten Homework Assignments Due Friday at 4pm( 5pm Tuesday before Exam 1) No Credit for Late Homework without permission Solutions must be Understandable….  Final Grade based on 100 points for homework, 100 points for Team Exercises and 300 points for exams  Office Hours 5-6pm, Thursdays ME CR (BTR203)  address : 

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L Berkley Davis Copyright 2009 MER301: Engineering Reliability7 Team Exercises  Teams will work together for all five class exercises. These will be due as shown in the class outline.  The team exercises are CTQ Exercise(5pts) Reliability Exercise(20pts) Combustor Exercise(50pts) Catapult experiment(20pts) Measurement System(5pts)  Each team will turn in one report for each exercise and will make classroom presentations for the combustor and catapult exercises