16.358J / 16.863J System Safety, Spring 2005

Leveson, Nancy

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Leveson, Nancy

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System Safety

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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.

Date issued

2005-06

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71860

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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16.358J-Spring2005

local: 16.358J

local: 16.863J

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Keywords

system safety, software safety, system reliability, safety-critical systems, accident models, human error models, system safety engineering, software hazard analysis, fault tolerance, safety culture

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