Software-aided reliability education

Author

Marcos, Jorge ; Molinelli, Luis ; Fernandez-Gomez, Santiago

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Technol., Vigo Univ., Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

Electronic reliability education is part of the curriculum in the School of Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Vigo. Good education on this topic can only be provided with practical training; therefore, our course on reliability includes fieldwork in collaboration with companies from the automotive sector. Students collect data, elaborate them, and obtain the reliability of manufactured systems. Because of time constraints in the course, the work was lacking of a more detailed study of the expected reliability. In an effort to improve the educative process, a reliability prediction tool was developed. The learning curve to use the tool is very fast, while including all the key ideas that students need to assimilate in this course. In this paper, the added value that this tool has introduced in our reliability course is presented, as well as an overview on learned lessons and future challenges on reliability education at our University

Keywords

computer aided instruction; electronic engineering education; reliability; School of Telecommunication Engineering; University of Vigo; automotive sector; collaboration; curriculum; data collection; electronic reliability education; failure analysis; learning curve; maintainability; manufactured systems reliability; practical training; reliability prediction tool; software-aided reliability education; Automotive engineering; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Educational products; Failure analysis; Maintenance engineering; Manufacturing; Production systems; Reliability engineering; Time factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual

Conference_Location

Reno, NV

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6669-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2001.963842

Filename

963842