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Minor in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering
Reliability and maintainability 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. Pursuing a minor in this field sets students and professionals apart with specialized skills highly valued across many industries.
Program Overview
The Reliability and Maintainability Engineering (RME) program is a multidisciplinary program focusing on the use of management systems, analysis techniques and advanced condition-based and preventive technologies to identify, manage and eliminate failures leading to losses in system function. Once perceived as a practitioner or manufacturing issue, reliability and maintainability engineering is now considered a business issue of urgent priority.
Curriculum
To obtain a minor in reliability and maintainability engineering, 15 hours of coursework are required as listed below. The grade in each of the required classes must be at least a C. Students should consult with their advisor for the appropriate elective courses in their major.
Core Courses
Six hours, complete both courses
- Industrial Engineering 483 or Mechanical Engineering 483 or Material Science and Engineering 483 or Nuclear Engineering 483
- Industrial Engineering 484 or Mechanical Engineering 484 or Materials Science and Engineering 484 or Nuclear Engineering 484
Statistics or Math Requirements
Three hours, choose one course
- Chemical Engineering 301
- Electrical and Computer Engineering 313
- Industrial Engineering 200
- Materials Science and Engineering 371
- Mathematics 323
- Statistics 251
Elective Courses
Six hours, choose two courses
- CBE 360 – Process Dynamics and Control
- ECE 315 – Signals and Systems I
- ECE 471 – Introduction to Pattern Recognition
- IE 300 – Quality Control and Management
- ME 345 – Mechanical Engineering Instrumentation and Measurement
- ME 363 – System Dynamics
- MSE 302 – Mechanical Behavior of Material I
- MSE 405 – Structural Charactersitics of Materials I
- NE 401 – Radiological Engineering Laboratory
- IE 340 – Process Improvement through Planned Experimentation
- BAS 340 – Experimental Methods and Process Improvement
Total Hours: 15
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