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Industrial Engineering Program
Reliability Systems Area
Faculty
in the Reliability Systems Area are concerned with data analysis and decision-making
techniques that will improve prediction and monitoring of the reliability
of complex systems. Several faculty and students in this area at Iowa
are affiliated with the Center
for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD). They interact closely with the Mechanical
Systems group in the Mechanical Engineering program.
Faculty
The faculty affiliated with the Reliability Systems Area are listed below. Descriptions of specific research projects in this area can be accessed through research links on the individual faculty pages.
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Research Interests: Maintenance decision making, process monitoring and diagnosis, reliability modeling and analysis, manufacturing system design. |
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Research Interests: Condition-based maintenance and degradation modeling, automated manufacturing systems, discrete event simulation, operation research and decision analysis. |
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Research Interests: Stochastic optimization, risk analysis, probabilistic combinatorial optimization, cooperative control, optimal trading strategies and pricing of derivatives. |
Courses
Graduate courses in the Reliability Systems Area are offered at both the 100- and 200-levels.


