57:022 Principles of Design II

Spring Semester 2002

Tentative syllabus, subject to revision!!!

Date

Lecture topic

 Reading

 1
  23 Jan Discrete random trials:
Binomial, Geometric, & Pascal Distributions

 2
  28 Jan Poisson processes:
Poisson, Exponential, & Erlang Distributions

 3
  4 Feb Random numbers, Introduction to Simulation

 4
 11 Feb Simulation 

 5
  18 Feb Curve fitting, goodness-of-fit test 

 6
  25 Feb Extreme Value Dist'ns: Weibull & Gumbel

 7
  4 March Midterm exam

 8
  11 March Component reliability models; estimation of Weibull parameters

 9
  18 March --- SPRING BREAK! ---

 10
  25 March Reliability of systems:
series & parallel configurations, redundancy

 11
  1 April Reliability estimation by simulation 

 12
  8 April Queueing models 

 13
  15 April

 14
  22 April Project Scheduling: Critical path method

 15
 29 April Project Scheduling: PERT & simulation 

 16
  6 May Summary and Review 

 17
  17May  FINAL EXAMINATION, Friday, 9:45 A.M.  

to POD-II home page.

http://www.alf.ie.engineering.uiowa.edu/bricker/podii_syllabus.html

dennis-bricker@uiowa.edu

Last modified: 21 February 2002