The Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) understands the principles of performance evaluation and prediction to improve product/systems safety, reliability, and
maintainability.
This body of knowledge and applied technologies include, but are not limited to, design review and control; prediction, estimation, and apportionment
methodology; failure mode and effects analysis; the planning, operation, and analysis of reliability testing and field failures, including mathematical modeling;
understanding human factors in reliability; and the ability to develop and administer reliability information systems for failure analysis, design, and performance
improvement and reliability program management over the entire product life cycle.