UniversityofArizona
Arizona
AerospaceandMechanicalEngineeringDept,Tucson,ReliabilityEngineeringcourseswereinitiatedin1963,
underthedirectionofDr.Kececioglu,whoincreasedthenumberto9coursesby1969,andbegantoofferan
AerospaceEngineeringorMechanicalEngineeringMaster’sdegreewithaReliabilityEngineeringoption,and
aPhDdegreewithaMinorinReliabilityEngineering.Thedemandforreliabilityengineeringcoursessteadilyincreased
andby1997atotalof17reliabilityengineeringandsupportingcourseswerebeingofferedandcontinueto
beofferedintheAerospaceandMechanicalEngineering(AME)Dep’t.Additionally,16electivecoursesarebeing
offeredintheAME,Systems&IndustrialEngineering(SIE),andMathematic:,Departments.Coursesinthereliability
engineeringgraduateprogramarealsovideotaped,andtherightstoviewthemareprovidedatnominalcost.
Thesecoursesinclude:
.reliabilityengineering,
.reliability&lifetesting,
‘maintainabilityengineering,
.probabilisticmechanicaldesignbyreliability,
.designofexperiments,
.andothers.
AProfessionalCertificateAwardprograminReliability
&QualityEngineeringwasestablishedin1991and
cosponsoredbyTheUniversityofArizona’sCollegeofEngineering
andMinesandTheUniversityofArizonaVideo-
Campus.Thisprogramoffers15-unitsofgraduate-level
courses,including:
.engineeringstatistics
ereliabilityengineermf;,
.reliabilitytesting,
.maintainabilityengineering,
.qualitycontrol,
.experimentaldesign,
.probabilisticmechanicaldesign.
ItprovidesanexcellentpreparationfortheAmericanSocietyofQuality’sCertifiedReliabilityEngineerorCertified
QualityEngineerexaminations. |