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Lecture Notes

Notes outlining material covered in each session are listed below.

SES # TOPICS
1 Introduction to class, system safety, and hazard identification (PDF)
2 Discussion questions and in-class debate on responsibility for risk, PHA and risk assessment, causes of accidents (PDF)
3 Review causes of accidents assignment, accident models, review preliminary hazard analysis for Matterhorn, intent specifications (PDF)
4 Jeff Joyce visit, hazard analysis, root cause analysis (PDF)
5 State machines, SpecTRM-RL, requirements and requirements analysis (PDF)
6 Review Matterhorn Level 1, Dan Gregory (system safety engineer from Raytheon)
7 Design for safety (PDF)
8 Humans and Automation (PDF)
9 Francis visit, accident investigation, presentation of STAMP analyses and assignment on Titan analysis, archetypes (Karen Marais) 
10 Visitors from Electric Boat (submarines), review level 2 of project
11 Operations, root cause analysis, John Carroll
12 Verification, management, presentation of research proposals
13 Review of Matterhorn designs, wrap-up