Teaching
We are building a new course on Risk and Reliability Analysis, which will launch in 2025. Below is an overview of the planned content.
Course Title (Tentative): Risk and Reliability Analysis for Engineering Systems
Objective:
This course equips upper-level undergraduate and graduate students with unique knowledge and skills to analyze and design complex engineering systems. By integrating micro-level modeling for underlying phenomena — such as fluid mechanics, material science, structural mechanics, and control systems — with macro-level systems modeling, students will learn how to approach risk and reliability problems.
Main Topics Covered:
- Review of probability and statistics
- Systematic risk modeling
- Hardware and digital component reliability modeling
- Human reliability analysis
- Uncertainty quantification
- Integration of engineering simulations with systems risk models
Course Structure:
The course combines lectures and term projects to ensure students have opportunities to apply the fundamental methods and techniques learned in class. Through hands-on projects, students will engage with real-world scenarios and practice applying risk and reliability analysis to complex engineering problems.
Why Take This Course?
This course will provide students with the critical skills needed for analyzing and designing large-scale, complex engineering systems, which are common in various sectors like energy, aerospace, and manufacturing. Students will learn how to integrate multiple modeling and simulation methods, addressing a wide range of time horizons and spatial scales. Moreover, they will gain the ability to tackle uncertainties that arise from combining diverse sources of data and information to understand different aspects of complex systems—an essential capability when working on cutting-edge projects in these industries. Whether in academic research or industry settings, these competencies are highly sought and valued.