ENRE 653 - Advanced Reliability and Maintainability Engineering

Text:
Charles E. Ebeling, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1997

Reference Texts:
- M. Ohring, Reliability and Failure of Electronic Materials and Devices, Academic
Press, 1998
- J.A. Collins, Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design (2nd ed.), J. Wiley and
Sons, 1993

Course Objectives:
The goal of this course is to educate engineers in the vocabulary and to clarify widely
used terminology related to system reliability engineering. The information covers the
gambit of reliability systems engineering and robust design down to fundamental
physical principles controlling physics of failure models in modern complex systems.
Principles taught include mechanical electronic and software failure mechanisms.
Students are expected to have a background equivalent to an undergraduate engineering
education and be familiar with advanced engineering mathematics. Examples discussed
are generic, but mostly pointed to electronic system reliability principles, accelerated
testing and reliability (MTTF) modeling.

Instructor: Professor Joseph B Bernstein
University of Maryland - Tel Aviv University

The following topics will be covered:
1. Fundamentals of Reliability Engineering
2. Systems Level Reliability Assessment
3. Statistical Analysis for Reliability Engineering (2 lectures)
4. Physics of Failure for Reliability Assessment (2 lectures)
5. Mechanical Reliability Testing
6. Defect Related Reliability Assessment
7. Advanced Electronic Device Reliability (2 lectures)
8. Design of High Reliability Electronic Systems (2 lectures)