Welcome to the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) Exam Preparation Course

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The live sessions are held using GotoMeeting

Please join the course session from your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/235107237

This meeting is locked with a password: AR-CRE-2020

we are using the same link for all sessions – at least that is the current plan

You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (312) 757-3129
Canada: +1 (647) 497-9391

Access Code: 235-107-237

First GoToMeeting using this device or network? Let’s do a quick system check:
https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check

The Primary Reference for the Course

This course is built around the Quality Council of Indiana’s CRE Primer. It costs $85 and typically ships within a week or two.

I highly encourage you to get a copy, read, study, markup, and get to know this reference. It is essentially the best and goto reference during the exam, and as a goto reference going forward.

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Course Overview

This online class provides an overview of the CRE Body of Knowledge with lectures, discussions, guided self-study and review of previous CRE exam questions.

This classroom allows participants to actively participate by drawing on the virtual whiteboard, asking questions on the mic or webchat, taking polls, sharing desktops, and webcam capability. Imagine following a lecture, highlighting or circling your problem areas on the virtual whiteboard, or even presenting tough CRE questions to be answered. You can even e-mail questions to be answered in the next class!

If you are unable to make the live class, or want to re-view videos from past sessions, you may do so by clicking any course date in the Course Archive (available here as the course progresses).

This course is designed to supplement the knowledge of the individual having met the requirements for certification and is not designed to teach the entire body of knowledge.

CRE Exam Prerequisites

You must have eight years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Reliability Engineer Body of Knowledge. A minimum of three years of this experience must be in a decision-making position. “Decision-making” is defined as the authority to define, execute, or control projects/processes and to be responsible for the outcome. This may or may not include management or supervisory positions.

If you are now or were previously certified by ASQ as a Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Software Quality Engineer, or Quality Manager, experience used to qualify for certification in these fields often applies to certification as a Reliability Engineer.

If you have completed a degree from a college, university, or technical school with accreditation accepted by ASQ, part of the eight-year experience requirement will be waived. Please consult the details on the ASQ website, http://asq.org/cert/quality-engineer/right-for-you, or call 800-248-1946.

Register for the CRE exam separately at www.asq.org. Introductory courses in Statistics, Statistical analysis, Risk Analysis, FMEA and Reliability are advisable if you have not covered those topics in depth previously.

Instructor Bio

Chris Jackson can help you with a range of reliability engineering issues and problems.

Chris has a PhD in Reliability Engineering and has been the Director of UCLA’s Center for Reliability and Resilience Engineering (CRRE) … so he can help you with the higher-level theory of reliability probability, modeling and statistics.

He was an officer in the Australian Army where he (amongst other things) led hundreds of engineers and technicians to support multi-million dollar fleets of equipment … so he knows how the operational management side works.

He has also consulted to many clients for many different issues … so he knows about organizational reliability management issues.

Chris has been a project manager for a number of government projects … which means he is well versed on the realities of materiel contract management. He has published multiple textbooks including ‘Reliability Engineering and Management’ (https://www.amazon.com/Reliability-Engineering-Management-Christopher-Jackson-ebook/dp/B071LGDYQG).

He founded UCLA’s Center for the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Systems (SARAS … www.saras.ucla.edu)

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BOK Primer

The BOK Primer is for the CRE (from the Indiana Society of Quality) can be purchased at:

https://www.qualitycouncil.com/cre/

This comprises of a large folder that can be taken into the CRE exam as a reference. It also contains ‘blue’ pages of practice questions that must be removed before entering the exam.

Online Course Times

Note: These online classes will be recorded and you will be able to access them later even if you cannot make it to the Live class session. This means you may watch them again in case you forget something, miss a class, or can’t make it one day. Saturdays may be scheduled with the instructor for extra sessions or make-up classes if needed.

The course will be run over eight (8) weeks as follows:

Tuesday 5th May (10 am to 2 pm EST)
Tuesday 12th May (10 am to 2 pm EST)
Tuesday 19th May (10 am to 2 pm EST)
Wednesday 27th May (10 am to 2 pm EST)
Tuesday 2nd June (10 am to 2 pm EST)
Tuesday 9th June (10 am to 2 pm EST)
Tuesday 16th June (10 am to 2 pm EST)
Wednesday 24th June (10 am to 2 pm EST)

You are always welcome to email or call Chris at any time to discuss topics within the CRE Body of Knowledge.

Course Details

Prerequisites: Please see above.

Hardware: A basic statistical calculator. Calculators with alpha keyboards or with stored memory are not permitted in the exam.

You must have access to a computer capable of viewing the online classes which is using GotoMeeting.

If you haven’t recently attended a GotoMeeting meeting before, try the following link:

Test your connection: https://support.logmeininc.com/gotomeeting/get-ready

We will schedule a couple ‘let’s make sure this works’ sessions to test and get familiar with the GotoMeeting software that we’ll be using for the class sessions. Details to follow on dates and times for the get the setup meetings.

Software: N/A – as you will not have software tools available during the exam.

Required Materials:

Pencil & Paper
A laptop/tablet if you prefer, with online access to view the webinar
A calculator without an alpha-numeric keyboard
CRE Primer. Available from the Quality Council of Indiana. To order please go to: www.qualitycouncil.com **Please order at least 2 weeks prior to course to ensure it arrives in time.

Suggested Materials: CRE Electronic Exam CD, is also available on the Quality Council of Indiana website, and similar products are available from The ASQ website under The Quality Press section.

Learning Method: Lectures, teams, case studies, hands on-line approach

Class Time: 32 hours (Every class will be available to watch again in the Archive)

Class Size: 20 participants max per class, class is held online

Facilities: This is an online course, you must provide your own capable computer with internet access in order to participate in this class; you will have the opportunity to ask detailed questions, participate in virtual whiteboard activities by drawing or highlighting problems and questions, access to polls, chat and microphone Q&A, and screen sharing capability.