Reliability Engineering

UPON APPLYING, PLEASE SELECT “ENGINEERING – ONLINE” AS THE MAJOR.  THEREAFTER, PLEASE SELECT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AS THE SPECIALIZATION, IN YOUR STATEMENT OF PURPOSE PLEASE DESIGNATE YOUR INTENT TO APPLY FOR RELIABILITY ENGINEERING.

Degree: Master of Science in Engineering with a Certificate of Specialization in Reliability Engineering

Area Director: Professor Ali Mosleh – mosleh@ucla.edu

Program Description:
The UCLA Reliability Engineering graduate program is designed with a fresh perspective that addresses the current needs of the industry for ensuring reliability of engineered products and services, but also anticipates future needs and pushes frontiers into the realms of machine learning, advanced prognostics and health monitoring, and advanced methods to tackle reliability of complex Cyber-Physical-Human (CPH) systems.

Degree Requirements:

• At least nine courses are required (36 Units)
• A minimum of (5) graduate level courses are required (excluding ENGR 299 Capstone Project course)
• (5) core courses in Reliability Engineering
• (4) electives
• Meet Comprehensive Exam Requirement (please see requirements below)
• Courses applied toward the degree must be taken for letter grade; S/U grading is not acceptable.

CORE COURSES 

• MECH&AE 174: Probability and Its Applications to Risk, Reliability, and Quality Control
• MAT SCI 261: Risk Analysis for Engineers and Scientists
• MAT SCI 262: Probabilistic Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems
• MAT SCI 298: Failure Mechanisms Fundamentals
• C&EE 298: Deep Learning and Health Management for Complex Engineering Systems
• C&EE 298: Reliability Methods for Complex Systems

ELECTIVES:

• MAT SCI 298: Human Reliability Analysis
• ENGR 201: Systems Engineering
• ENGR 202: Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability
• ENGR 205: Model-Based Systems Engineering
• ENGR 206: Engineering for Systems Assurance

Students can meet the Comprehensive Exam Requirement in two ways:

Choose (1 option below)

Option 1:
Take and Pass ENGR 299 Capstone Project course.

Option 2:
Take and pass three written exams for three different graduate level courses within the student’s area of specialization. The written exams are held concurrently with the final exam of the graduate level courses. Students may select which exams they would like to count towards the Comprehensive Exam requirement.

Thesis Plan:
NONE

Time-to-Degree:
Students are expected to complete the degree within two academic years and one quarter, including two summer sessions. The maximum time allowed in this program is three academic years (nine quarters), excluding summer sessions.