The collapse of I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in 2007. (This image is in the public domain).
Instructor(s)
Prof. Nancy Leveson
MIT Course Number
16.63J / IDS.045J / (formerly ESD.03J)
As Taught In
Spring 2016
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course introduces the concepts of system safety and how to analyze and design safer systems. Topics include the causes of accidents in general, and recent major accidents in particular; hazard analysis, safety-driven design techniques; design of human-automation interaction; integrating safety into the system engineering process; and managing and operating safety-critical systems.
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