Overview
Completing this Engineering Risk and Reliability Analysis course at the University of Aberdeen will give you an advantage in technical safety-related careers.
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to...
- Explain the significance of technical safety principles.
- Describe a range of risk assessment schemes.
- Analyse problems in which many of the parameters are non-deterministic in nature.
- Formulate a range of reliability problems.
- Explain the types of uncertainty that affect the reliability of engineering systems and components, and the model these using appropriate probability distributions.
- Compute reliability using a variety of methods, including FORM and Monte Carlo simulation.
Programme Structure
Topics include:
- risk assessment principles
- reliability computations
- safety management
- revision of elementary risk and reliability concepts
- engineering quantities as random variables
- risk assessment techniques
- structural reliability – background and applications
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
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Credits
Delivered
Campus Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Mechanical Engineering Structural Engineering View 3 other Short Courses in Structural Engineering in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
This course has no formal entry requirements. You decide if it’s suitable for you.
The course is delivered at Masters level. At this level, for this course, you’d usually have at least:
- a 2:2 UK honours degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Applied Mathematics or Physics, or
- relevant professional experience that supports this level of study.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents1395 GBP / full≈ 1395 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents1395 GBP / full≈ 1395 GBP / full