2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGR 461 Engineering Statistics

Basic statistical methods including variance, covariance and correlation, and various distributions; use of evaluation tools in production including sampling, control charts, significance tests, variance, and regression; use of statistics in design including tolerance and factors of safety. 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

MATH 251

Offered

Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Recognize the role of statistics in engineering.
  2. Interpret and present engineering data.
  3. Calculate and model probabilities of random variables.
  4. use statistical methods to make an informed decision for single and multiple samples.
  5. Build empirical models.
  6. Design engineering experiments.
  7. Design control charts.