ENGR 244 - Risk Management, Resilience, and Reliability of Energy Systems

3 unit(s)
Introduces Resilience, Reliability and Risk Management as they are critical elements of an effective and sustainable socio-technical and technical systems, including an energy system. The course combines lectures, reference materials and case studies to provide students with high-level concepts, methods and tools and draws from case studies and guest speakers to engage and guide students in the analysis of actual systems and events. The course also demonstrates the interconnectivity, interactivity, and interdependences of various factors including technological, organizational, human operational, outside forces in a given system and concepts and approaches to proactively address uncertainties (risk management), and recover from failures (resiliency), in order to assure the continuity of the system (reliability.)

Prerequisite(s): An undergraduate course on Engineering Systems, Engineering Probability and Statistic, or instructor consent.
Grading: Letter Graded

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