[Themaintainers] Maintenance engineering coursework?

Sat Apr 3 19:11:46 EDT 2021

Hi Jonathan,
I am a maintenance engineer and for many years have taught university and executive education courses on maintenance, asset management, reliability, risk and safety. I was Australia’s representative on the development of the ISO55000/1/2 set of Asset Management Standards. Maintenance is one of the major elements of asset management. A good reference to all things AM is the GFMAM sute (Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management) https://gfmam.org/global-collaboration. Their publications page is a useful source of teaching materials.
Can I suggest, all found (for free) on this page.

·       The AM Landscape,

·       The Maintenance Framework, and

·       The Value of Asset Management.
The Maintenance Framework book will be particularly helpful for engineers-in-training as it covers the maintenance management process (identify work (maintenance strategy)-schedule-planning-execution) that they are most likely to be exposed to when they graduate if they work for an asset operating organisation.

About 7 years ago I was asked to develop a one semester class for final year engineers of all disciplines (process, mech, civil, elec, software, chemical, mining) on risk, reliability and safety. Maintenance is covered in detail as it is one of the main ways we manage risk. Attached is an overview of the unit if you are interested. Below is a brief overview:

“The unit aims to provide a holistic an integrated overview of the theory and practice in the fields of risk, reliability and safety, to prepare our engineers for professional practice. The unit develops students' technical and statistical skills and covers the social and organisational contexts, extending the students’ field of view beyond the technical to consider the customer and the organisation’s needs. The unit is taught to all engineering disciplines in one class to reinforce the need for cross-discipline collaboration and accommodation of different stakeholders and perspectives in risk and safety management.”

The class is huge >300 students and taught twice a year. It is co-taught with a statistician and my part (the engineering part) in taught using flipped learning and case study based interactive workshops.

Very happy to share what we have learned over the last 7 years, ideas and materials. We have taught this unit to over 4000 students.
Regards Melinda

Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz
BA Hons (Oxon), PhD, CEng, FTSE
BHP Fellow for Engineering for Remote Operations
Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
University of Western Australia
M050, UWA, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009
Melinda.hodkiewicz at uwa.edu.au<mailto:Melinda.hodkiewicz at uwa.edu.au>

From: themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu <themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu> On Behalf Of Jonathan Krones
Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2021 3:39 AM
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Subject: [Themaintainers] Maintenance engineering coursework?

Hi Maintainers,

First time caller, long time lurker. I'm starting work on a new syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate general engineering elective tentatively called "Maintenance Engineering" (although I'll probably need to snazz it up to get any enrollment). The idea is to cover concepts from a variety of engineering fields (e.g., civil, software systems, materials, manufacturing, product design) that relate to issues of maintenance, repair, and other types of life extension of engineered systems. I'm still in early stages and am interested in learning about any similar courses that folks in this community might know. I'm also open to suggestions on topics or concepts that you think should go into a course like this. It will likely be a combination of probability/statistical models, systems engineering concepts, and the engineering science bases of inspection, preventative maintenance, repair and remanufacturing, etc.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Jonathan S Krones, PhD
Core Fellow / Visiting Assistant Professor | Boston College
Research Affiliate | MIT Olivetti Research Group
jonathan.krones at bc.edu<mailto:jonathan.krones at bc.edu> | 301.788.4206
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