Graduate Certificate
Reliability & Maintainability Engineering
Tickle College of Engineering
Program Overview
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offers an online Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Graduate Certificate for those who have completed at least a bachelor’s degree in engineering or who are currently enrolled in a graduate engineering program.
Credit Hours
12
Cost Per Credit Hour*
In-State $815
Out-of-State $890
Testing Requirements
No GRE
Admission Terms
Fall, Spring
*Cost per credit is an estimate based on maintenance and university fees. Some programs may have additional course fees. Please contact your department for additional information on any related fees, and visit Tuition and Fees in Detail at One Stop.
Acquire the Skills to Ignite Your Engineering Career
The Reliability and Maintainability Engineering (RME) Graduate Certificate program is an interdepartmental initiative designed for students who wish to pursue careers in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering. It is also suitable for professionals and managers currently working in the field looking to improve their knowledge and skills.
The program consists of four graduate engineering courses, two required courses and two elective courses. The two required courses introduce the student to the fundamentals of maintenance engineering and reliability engineering. The two elective courses are selected from a list of RME-related courses that currently includes courses in five traditional engineering disciplines.
Courses are delivered synchronously or 100% asynchronously depending on the selection of courses.
Featured Courses
The graduate certificate in reliability and maintainability engineering consists of two core courses and two elective courses, here are a few examples of the elective courses:
IE 516: Statistical Methods in Industrial Engineering
Application of classical statistical techniques to industrial engineering problems. Statistics and statistical thinking in managerial context of organizational improvement; descriptive statistics and distribution theory; relationship between statistical process control techniques and classical statistical tools; parameter estimation and hypothesis testing; goodness-of-fit testing; linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance; single and multiple factor experimental design.
IE 517: Reliability of Lean Systems
The course will focus on introducing students to the concepts of reliability and maintainability and the impact of lean on the reliability of complex systems. The course will introduce students to specific case studies of systems failures and ask student to develop solutions by considering different dimensions including financial, technical feasibility, risk, safety, security and others. Multi criteria decision making methodologies will be presented to allow students to make decisions when different criteria lead to conflicting solutions.
NE 575: Equipment & System Prognostics
The three types of prognostic techniques will be introduced with theoretical foundations, assumptions, and data requirements: Conventional reliability-based using failure times (e.g. Weibull analysis), Population based with environmental considerations (e.g. proportional hazards modeling), Individual based (e.g. general path model).
CBE/NE 585: Process System Reliability & Safety
Qualitative and quantitative techniques for assessing and improving process systems reliability and safety. Probabilistic risk assessment, event tree analysis, fault tree analysis, statistical inference, and associated dependent failure analysis. This is the graduate version of NE 485 and requires additional assignments and expectations for graduate students.
Program Concentrations
Students have the choice of multiple program concentrations for the Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Graduate Certificate which include the following:
Chemical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Materials Science
& Engineering
Nuclear ENGINEERING
