Course EA 4205 · Year IV · Summer 2025-2026

Quality and reliability

Compulsory course in Applied Electronics, taught by Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea.

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Overview

Lecturer
Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Seminar tutor
Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Electronic engineering and telecommunications
Field of study
Applied Electronics
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Lecture
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, discussion, video projection
Entry requirements
Electronics and industrial informatics, The basics of robotics

Aims

The purpose of the course material is, first of all, to sensitize the student to the correct understanding of the concept of quality, to familiarize him / her with a series of notions and definitions related to quality and to create the conviction regarding the involvement in the sphere of responsib

The definitions of the various terms that concern the quality field must be well understood and understood as the misuse of some notions can create great confusion, with negative consequences in the process management.

- the study of equipment failures (of causes, of processes of appearance and development and of methods of combating defects);- quantitative assessment of the behavior of the equipment during operation under normal conditions.

-determining the models and methods of calculation and forecasting of the reliability, based on the laboratory tests and the monitoring of the behavior in operation of the equipment;

- establishing the design, constructive, technological and exploitation methods for ensuring, maintaining and increasing the reliability of the equipment, devices and component elements;

Course contents

Quality objectives and strategy. Measurement of product quality. Stages, content of control activity, methods and means of control. Economic efficiency. Information costs in the field of quality. Reliability of industrial products and processes. Simulation of reliability of industrial products. Estimating the reliability of industrial processes based on capacity indices and the average of the operational period. Colloquium.

Learning outcomes

Conducting summer internships at Bosh, Siemens and Continental companies contributes to increasing students' experience in the field of electronic device exploitation. The situation of the aforementioned companies near Alba County is an opportunity for the students from EA.

Assessment

Check in progressPortfolio of practical works

Recommended reading

Introduction to Quality and Reliability Engineering
Renyan Jiang
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Beijing, 2015 · 326
Reliability in Automotive and Mechanical Engineering
Bernd Bertsche
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2008 · 500
Reliability Engineering
Alessandro Birolini
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2017 · 651
Reliability Engineering
Elsayed A. Elsayed
Wiley, 2012 · 792
A Textbook of Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
Alakesh Manna
I. K. International Publishing House, 2011 · 420