SEP 730 / Reliability and Risk Management

1.5 unit(s)

Staff

The course presents a broad treatment of the subject of engineering decision, risk, and reliability. Emphasis is on (1) the modeling of engineering problems and evaluation of systems performance under conditions of uncertainty; (2) risk-based approach to life-cycle management of engineering systems; (3) systematic development of design criteria, explicitly taking into account the significance of uncertainty; and (4) logical framework for risk assessment and risk/benefit tradeoffs in decision making. The necessary mathematical concepts are developed in the context of engineering problems.