Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Major, MS

Concentrations (Optional) and Options Available

Aerospace Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Biomedical Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Chemical Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Computer Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Electrical Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Industrial Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Materials Science and Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Mechanical Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Nuclear Engineering — Thesis Option, Project Option

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Distance Education

Admissions Standards/Procedure

Applicants for admission to the MS program with a major in reliability and maintainability engineering are expected to have earned a bachelor’s degree from an accredited undergraduate program in engineering or physics. Students from other appropriate disciplines (e.g. chemistry, mathematics, etc.) can be admitted but additional engineering courses may be required. Entering students must have, as a minimum, competency in mathematics through ordinary differential equations. Submit online application to Office of Graduate Admissions.

Credit Hours Required

Minimum of 30 graduate credit hours

Required Courses

• Option Requirements

• Thesis Option:

• AE 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)
• BME 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)
• CBE 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)
• ECE 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)
• IE 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)
• ME 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)
• MSE 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)
• NE 500 - Thesis (6 credit hours)

• Project Option:

  • The course will be supervised by the student’s master’s committee.
  • A written project proposal describing what the student will do in the course must be submitted in advance to the graduate student’s committee for approval.
  • A written final report is required.

• The project course may be taken through the major professor’s department:

• CBE 580 - Technical Review and Assessment
• ECE 501 - Project in Lieu of Thesis
• IE 501 - Design Project
• ME 590 - Selected Engineering Problems
• NE 598 - Nuclear Engineering Practice

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• Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Core Courses (12 graduate credit hours):

• Complete one:

• CBE 483 - Introduction to Reliability Engineering *
• IE 483 - Introduction to Reliability Engineering *
• ME 483 - Introduction to Reliability Engineering *
• MSE 483 - Introduction to Reliability Engineering *
• NE 483 - Introduction to Reliability Engineering *

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• Complete one:

• CBE 484 - Introduction to Maintainability Engineering *
• IE 484 - Introduction to Maintainability Engineering *
• ME 484 - Introduction to Maintainability Engineering *
• MSE 484 - Introduction to Maintainability Engineering *
• NE 484 - Introduction to Maintainability Engineering *

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• Complete one:

• CBE 585 - Process System Reliability and Safety *
• NE 585 - Process System Reliability and Safety *

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• Complete:

• IE 517 - Reliability of Lean Systems *

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• Statistics (6 graduate credit hours)

• Complete one:

• IE 516 - Statistical Methods in Industrial Engineering
• STAT 567 - Lifetime Data and Survival Analysis

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• Complete an additional course selected in consultation with the major professor and committee members.

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• Six credit hours of reliability and maintainability engineering elective courses or statistics elective courses chosen from these lists.

• Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Electives:

• CBE 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems
• BME 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems
• CE 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems
• ECE 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems
• ENVE 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems
• ME 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems
• MSE 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems
• NE 529 - Application of Linear Algebra in Engineering Systems

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• ECE 504 - Random Process Theory for Engineers

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• IE 522 - Optimization Methods in Industrial Engineering
• IE 536 - Project Management
• IE 565 - Applied Data Science

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• ME 534 - Mechanical Vibrations *
• NE 575 - Equipment and Systems Prognostics *
• NE 579 - Empirical Models for Monitoring and Diagnostics *

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• Statistics Electives:

• STAT 537 - Statistics for Research I *
• STAT 538 - Statistics for Research II, Regression Modeling *
• STAT 575 - Applied Time Series Models
• STAT 579 - Multivariate and Data Mining Techniques *

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• *Currently offered through distance education. 
  All courses are 3 graduate credit hour courses.

   

  Note: For both the thesis and project option, at least two-thirds of the minimum required credit hours must be taken in courses numbered at or above the 500-level.

Additional Course Requirements

• Concentration Specific Courses: Courses taken for each of the concentrations come from the various subject areas in the Tickle College of Engineering and selected in consultation with the major professor and guidance committee. The concentrations represent the area of research for the thesis or project.
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Nuclear Engineering

Non-Course Requirements

• Thesis Option: A final oral examination covering the thesis and related coursework.
• Project Option: A final oral examination covering the project and related coursework.