Concept of system engineering, Generalized Principles of modelling, factors in modelling,
some examples.
Linear programming, dynamic programming, cost flow and routing problems. critical path
scheduling.
Importance of reliability, reliability functions. causes of failure, modes of failure, failure rate,
mortality curve, MTTF, repair rate, MTBF, Availability, uptime, down time, failure
frequency, failure distributions, reliability modes statistical, structural, Markov and fault tree,
Reliability, evaluation using various models, redundancy techniques, reliability allocation and
optimization, basic principles of maintainability, availability and security.