Hybrid approaches to teaching reliability and statistics to engineering students
Hybrid approaches to teaching reliability and statistics to engineering students – Friday 8th of July, 2:30 – 3:10pm
Abstract:
The program of Master of Maintenance Management at University of Wollongong (UOW) commenced in 1992 and it was migrated to the Master of Engineering Asset Management (MEAM) in 2005. This program was directed at an area that is of growing and continuing concern of industry asset owners and operators who are looking for ways to improve their performance given the extremely fast increase of available data together with the widening impact of engineered-system failure on organizations and their customers. The program has attracted high caliber engaged domestic professional engineers from a number of industries in Australia.
This talk will give an introduction to the teaching and learning approach to engineering asset management at UOW. It covers the teaching methods, activities and strategies to establish a suitable and effective learning process for postgraduate students to study the discipline of engineering asset management. A general framework developed will be presented that can be tailored to the particular need/context for guiding the construction of a suitable approach. The challenges of teaching in this discipline will be discussed, that may be articulated in a way that reflects the concerns of teaching and learning through the practice of designing and delivering teaching and learning activities for the students to achieve the learning goals. An iterative cycle approach will be discussed, covering design, implementation, analysis and revision for improvement.
Presented by:
Dr Tieling Zhang has been working at Faculty of Engineering of Information Sciences, the University of Wollongong, as a director of Engineering Asset Management and Systems Engineering Research Group. He is member of IEEE. He received a PhD degree in transportation system engineering from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in 2001. Before he joined University of Wollongong in 2012, he had work and research experience in Vestas Technology R&D centre, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Singapore centre, and National University of Singapore. He has direct research experience covering data storage system, wind turbines, and energy pipelines. He is author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers, and awarded 6 patents. He is on editorial board of International Journal of Systems Engineering, and Information. He serves as an invited referee for over 40 international journals, and technical committee member for many international conferences. He is now serving the guest editor for two special issues: One with Machines and one with Information. He has delivered a number of guest lectures and keynote speeches at international conferences, universities and research organizations. He received 3 best paper awards from three prestigious international conferences. He is teaching and directing course teaching under program of Master of Engineering Management with specialization in engineering asset management. His research interests include system reliability modelling, statistical data modelling, condition monitoring and fault diagnostics, system optimization and application of artificial intelligence technologies
