Fundamentals of Design for Reliability

Reliability engineering is the discipline of predicting and designing against failure — figuring out not just whether a component works, but how long it will keep working under real stress, age, and mission conditions before something breaks. You'll move between probability distributions (exponential, Weibull, normal), techniques like FMEA, fault tree analysis, and reliability block diagrams, and case studies grounded in aerospace and defense standards (MIL-HDBK-338B, MIL-STD-810), with homework, a project, and two midterms tying the statistics to actual hardware decisions. It's a natural senior-level bridge between your probability background and the design and manufacturing courses, and it's the toolkit anyone going into aerospace, automotive, or any safety-critical industry is expected to speak fluently.