Undergraduate - UnitECE3092 - Systems engineering and reliability analysis

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Synopsis

This unit introduces systems engineering and reliability analysis. Key concepts and language are introduced through real world examples. Frameworks for analysing the life cycles of systems are introduced. Tools and techniques to aid decision-making are provided. Group projects and discussions reinforce the concepts through real-world examples. The concepts of component and system reliability are introduced and extended to reliability analysis of non-repairable and repairable systems, including time dependent reliability and availability, mean time to failure, mean repair time and lifetime distribution functions.

Outcomes

To understand the process of systems design. To learn principles of reliability evaluation of engineering systems and the use of mathematical tools in reliability analysis.

Assessment

Continuous assessment: 40%
Examination: (3 hours): 60%.
Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component (assignments, tests, mid-semester exams, laboratory reports) and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit. Students failing to achieve this requirement will be given a maximum of 45% in the unit.

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Arthur Lowery

Contact hours

2 hours lectures, 2 hours laboratory and practice classes and 8 hours of private study per week

Prerequisites

ENG2092

Prohibitions

TEC3192