IENG 6967

The course aims to provide advanced insights in the principles underlying safety and risk, from an engineering perspective, with primary attention to risk and safety in complex socio-technical systems. As a graduate course, the focus is on understanding, analysis, and critical evaluation of state-of-the-art concepts, theories, and methods in safety and risk research. After a broad common foundation is established for all course participants, the remainder of the course is implemented through a co-design approach. The common foundation focuses on i) basic concepts in the discipline (including safety-I vs safety-II, resilience, reliability, risk, etc.), ii) modern accident theories and analysis methods in complex socio-technical systems (including STAMP, FRAM, etc.), and iii) concepts and approaches for validation in different scientific disciplines relevant for engineering safety and risk research. The co-design approach has the objective to enable students to create specific learning objectives aligned with their research for their graduate thesis, in consultation with the course instructor, and maximally in collaboration with other students participating in the course.