Reliability and Maintainability Chemical Engineering Graduate Certificate
Reliability and maintainability (R&M) are crucial aspects of engineering because they directly impact the performance, safety, cost-effectiveness, and lifespan of products and systems, making them an essential foundation in the chemical engineering field. Obtaining a grad certificate in this area sets students and professionals apart with specialized skills highly valued in the chemical engineering industry.
Program overview
The reliability and maintainability chemical engineering graduate certificate program is an interdepartmental initiative designed for students who wish to pursue careers in reliability and maintainability engineering within the chemical engineering industry. It is also suitable for professionals and managers currently working in the field looking to improve their knowledge and skills.
The program consists of four graduate engineering courses, two required courses and two elective courses. The two required courses introduce the student to the fundamentals of maintenance engineering and reliability engineering. The two elective courses are selected from a list of RME-related courses that currently includes courses in five traditional engineering disciplines.
Why get a Certificate in Reliability and Maintainability Chemical Engineering?
With industry standards and compliance constantly evolving at a fast pace, it’s important for chemical engineers to continue learning R&M best practices to gain a professional edge and support movement into leadership and strategic roles.
What can you do with a Certificate in Reliability and Maintainability Chemical Engineering?
Certificate holders are better equipped for roles in reliability engineering, maintenance management, quality control, and asset management within the chemical engineering field. Completing this program equips individuals with a unique set of skills that opens the door to pursuing careers as reliability engineers or data analysts, maintenance engineers, quality assurance specialists, predictive maintenance technicians, R&M consultants, and many more.
Featured Courses
Below are some of the courses that students in our program can choose to take. For a list of all courses, visit the graduate catalog.
CBE 483 Introduction to Reliability Engineering
Probabilistic failure models and parameter estimation (maximum likelihood, Bayes techniques). Model identification and comparison, accelerated life tests, failure prediction, system reliability, preventive maintenance, and warranties.
CBE 484 Introduction to Maintainability Engineering
Principles of maintenance and reliability engineering and maintenance management. Topics include information extraction from machinery measurements, rotating machinery diagnostics, nondestructive testing, life prediction, failure models, lubrication oil analysis, establishing a predictive maintenance program, and computerized maintenance management systems.
CBE 585 Process System Reliability and Safety
Qualitative and quantitative techniques for assessing and improving process systems reliability and safety. Probabilistic risk assessment, event tree analysis, fault tree analysis, statistical inference, and associated dependent failure analysis. This is the graduate version of NE 485 and requires additional assignments and expectations for graduate students.
STAT 567 Lifetime Data and Survival Analysis
Statistical analysis of time-to-event data with censored observations. Nonparametric methods including Kaplan Meier curves and the log-rank test, parametric regression based on accelerated failure models, and semiparametric analysis with the Cox proportional hazards model are explained and applied to practical data sets. Case studies from both engineering and business analytics are used. Use of statistical software required.
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