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TPK4950

Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety, Master's Thesis

Credits 30
Level Second degree level
Course start Spring 2020
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English and norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Master's thesis

About

About the course

Learning outcome

Knowledge, after completion of this course, the student should have acquired in-depth knowledge within the group's topics and use of these on theoretical and industrial cases.

Skills, after completion of this course, the student will have skills related to:
- Carry out independent research and development projects based on supervision.
- Evaluate tools, methods, concepts, technical models, calculations and solutions in an independent way.
- Evaluate and predict technological, ethical and social effects and consequences of own work.

General competence, after completion of this course, the student will have general competence related to:
- Work independently or in teams with technological or scientific assignments of high complexity and importance.
- Communicate in an effective way with colleagues about own work, do dissemination of knowledge, do evaluation and work out conclusions.
- Develop and present reports with high quality in a structured way and contribute to publication and recommendation within the technical competence.

Learning methods and activities

Independent research work.

Further on evaluation

Information about writing and submitting your master’s thesis Oppgaveskriving
The master’s thesis has to be submitted in NTNU's examination system Inspera Assessment
The deadline for submitting the master’s thesis is 20 weeks from the starting date (the students have additional 6 weeks if they are writing a master thesis abroad.) + 7 days for Easter/Christmas holidays. Applications for an extended deadline must be submitted to the faculty.
Students who fail the master’s thesis, can submit a new or revised thesis once. It is not possible to improve an awarded grade by submitting a new thesis.
The deadline for the assessment of the master’s thesis is 3 months.

Required previous knowledge

TPK4120 Safety and Reliability Analysis and TPK4550 Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety, Specialization Project, or similar. In addition one of the specialization courses TPK5170 Design and Reliability Analysis of Digitalized Safety Systems or TPK4450 Data Driven Prognostics and Predictive Maintenance or similar.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TPK4900 30 sp
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Safety, Reliability and Maintenance

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Master's thesis
Grade: Letters

Ordinary examination - Spring 2020

Masteroppgave
Weighting 100/100 Date Release 2020-06-03
Submission 2020-06-10 Time Release 11:00
Submission 14:00 Duration 20 weeks Exam system Inspera Assessment

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