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AMC
Fellows
Expectations of Fellows Candidates |
Ethics:
- Public service is a public trust. Fellows are expected to exercise the utmost integrity in all academic, professional, and private activities.
- Fellows are to behave in a mature and professional manner at all times and in all dealings with students, faculty, and members of the workforce.
- Fellows are expected to accept primary responsibility for learning whatever is needed to maintain high academic standards and produce exceptional work products.
Academics:
- Fellows are expected to work comfortably with mathematical and statistical equations with and without the aid of a calculator.
- Fellows are expected to be good readers - to read and comprehend materials in college level textbooks and reports.
- Fellows are expected to be good writers - to take a book or technical report, condense the main points, compute summary statistics when needed, and communicate the main ideas in writing without significant grammatical errors.
Academic Examples: Upon completion of training, students will be expected to readily solve problems similar to the following without significant difficulty.
- A vendor manufactures 3 different components for a weapon system, each of these is required to have a 400 hour reliability of 0.95 . Early tests on prototypes indicate the following characteristics: Component A has an exponentially distributed lifetime with MTBF = 9,000 hours. The life of component B is normally distributed with parameters m = 1000 hours, s = 100 hours. The life of component C has a Weibull distribution with parameters q = 1000, b = 3. Determine whether each of these components satisfies these requirements and justify your answer mathematically.
- Ten systems were tested to failure with the following
results in multiples of 10,000 hours: 1.35, 4.50, 2.30, 5.20, 2.80, 6.00,
3.40, 7.00, 4.00, 8.50. Fit a Weibull distribution to this data and answer
the following:
a. Weibull parameters θ = _______. β =________.
b. What is the 95% lower confidence level at which 10% of the population is expected to fail?