Reliability and Maintainability Industrial 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 industrial engineering field. Obtaining a grad certificate in this area sets students and professionals apart with specialized skills highly valued in the industrial engineering industry.
Program overview
The reliability and maintainability industrial engineering graduate certificate program is an interdepartmental initiative designed for students who wish to pursue careers in reliability and maintainability engineering within the industrial 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 Industrial Engineering?
With industry standards and compliance constantly evolving at a fast pace, it’s important for industrial 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 Industrial Engineering?
Certificate holders are better equipped for roles in reliability engineering, maintenance management, quality control, and asset management within the industrial 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.
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.
IE 516 Statistical Methods in Industrial Engineering
Application of classical statistical techniques to industrial engineering problems. Statistics and statistical thinking in managerial context of organizational improvement; descriptive statistics and distribution theory; relationship between statistical process control techniques and classical statistical tools; parameter estimation and hypothesis testing; goodness-of-fit testing; linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance; single and multiple factor experimental design.
IE 522 Optimization Methods in Industrial Engineering
Development and application of fundamental deterministic optimization methods including linear programming, dynamic programming, introductory integer programming, basic game theory, and classical optimization theory applied to constrained and unconstrained models.
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