16.358J / 16.863J System Safety, Spring 2005
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16-358j-spring-2005/contents/index.htm
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Author(s)
Leveson, Nancy
Alternative Title
System Safety
Date Issued
June 2005
Abstract
This course covers important concepts and techniques in designing and operating safety-critical systems. Topics covered include: the nature of risk, formal accident and human error models, causes of accidents, fundamental concepts of system safety engineering, system and software hazard analysis, designing for safety, fault tolerance, safety issues in the design of human-machine interaction, verification of safety, creating a safety culture, and management of safety-critical projects. It also includes a class project involving the high-level system design and analysis of a safety-critical system.
Subjects
system safety
software safety
system reliability
safety-critical systems
accident models
human error models
system safety engineering
software hazard analysis
fault tolerance
safety culture
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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