1.1 What is Reliability Engineering?1.2 Why Teach Reliability Engineering?1.3 Why Do Engineering Products Fail?1.4 Probabilistic Reliability1.5 Repairable and Non-Repairable Items1.6 The Pattern of Failures with Time (Non-Repairable Items)1.7 The Pattern of Failures with Time (Repairable Items)1.8 The Development of Reliability Engineering1.9 Courses, Conferences and Literature1.10 Organizations Involved in Reliability Work1.11 Reliability as an Effectiveness Parameter1.12 Reliability Programme Activities1.13 Reliability Economics and Management