MECH&AE 174 · MAE 174Probability and Its Applications to Risk, Reliability, and Quality Control
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to probability theory; random variables, distributions, functions of random variables, models of failure of components, reliability, redundancy, complex systems, stress-strength models, fault tree analysis, statistical quality control by variables and by attributes, acceptance sampling.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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Requisite: Mathematics 33A.
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MECH&AE 174
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
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