The objective of this course is to teach engineers how to develop comprehensive strategies and measures to assess and manage human and organizational factors in the life-cycle of engineered systems including proactive, reactive, and interactive strategies. Three methods are employed with each of these three strategies: reduce the likelihoods of human and organizational ‘errors,’ increase the likelihoods of detecting and remedying such errors, and reduce the effects of errors – design of damage and defect tolerant systems.

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The primary objective of this course are to teach students how to use and integrate the results of their education to design and reassess engineered systems considering their construction, inspection, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, operation, and decommissioning. This course is designed for upper division and graduate civil and environmental engineering students. Teamwork and communication skills are emphasized.

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This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to define and evaluate imposed and induced loadings to be used in design and requalification of Civil & Environmental Engineering structure and foundation systems including buildings, bridges, tunnels, transportation systems, harbor, coastal and ocean structure systems. The loadings include those that have operating and environmental sources. The environmental loadings to be addressed during the course include those due to wind, water waves and currents, and earthquakes.

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