Reliability and Maintainability 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 any traditional engineering field. Obtaining a grad certificate in this area sets students and professionals apart with specialized skills highly valued across many industries.
Program overview
The Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Graduate Certificate program is an interdepartmental initiative designed for students who wish to pursue careers in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering. 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 engineering?
With industry standards and compliance constantly evolving at a fast pace, it’s important for engineers to continue learning R&M best practices to gain a professional edge and support movement into leadership and strategic roles.
UT’s college-wide R&M program offers specialized certifications for chemical, computer, electrical, industrial, materials science, mechanical, and nuclear engineering, making this graduate certificate accessible to any engineering student or professional seeking valuable credentials to increase leadership skills and career opportunities.
What can you do with a certificate in reliability and maintainability engineering?
Certificate holders are better equipped for roles in reliability engineering, maintenance management, quality control, and asset management across diverse industries. 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
IE 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.
IE 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.
ECE 504 Random Process Theory for Engineers
Theoretical and applied aspects of probability and random process. Course topics include measure and probability, stationary process, Poisson process, Gaussian process and Brownian motion, Markov process, renewal process, and empirical process and concentration. Students will also learn how theory can be applied to various application domains, including sampling complexity in machine learning, queuing in network, linear prediction, pricing in futures market, Markov decision process, and reinforcement learning.
NE 579 Empirical Models for Monitoring and Diagnostics
Development and application of advanced statistical and artificial intelligence-based techniques for process and equipment monitoring and diagnostics. Linear, non-linear, parametric, and non-parametric techniques including ridge regression, principal component analysis, kernel regression. Data preprocessing, model optimization, and uncertainty analysis will be taught.
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