MECH&AE 174

Probability and Its Applications to Risk, Reliability, and Quality Control

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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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

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Requisites

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Requisite: Mathematics 33A.

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MATH 33A

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MECH&AE 174

MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
  - MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
  - MATH 31A

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