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SESĀ # Topics
1 Introduction to Class, Accident Causation, System Safety
2 Discussion Questions and In-class Debate on Responsibility for Risk, PHA and Risk Assessment, Traditional Hazard Analysis Techniques, Intent Specifications
3 Discussion Questions and In-class Debate on Responsibility for Risk (cont.), A New Systems-theoretic Accident Model, Review Preliminary Hazard Analysis for ACC
4 STPA
5 Catch Up
6 Requirements Analysis and Level 1 Reviews for ACC
7 Design for Safety
8 Humans and Automation
9 Robert Francis Visit, Accident Investigation, Presentation of STAMP Analyses of Ueberlingen Accident
10 Operations and Management by Prof. John Carroll
11 Visitor
12 Visitors from Electric Boat (Submarine Safety)
13 Review of ACC Designs, Wrap-up