Course description:

"Engineering disasters are usually catastrophic failures of a human-made system, structure, process or material, which are perceived to result in an outcome with a high cost to human life or health, the environment, our communities and societal structures, our industry, or the economy.  The potential for disaster is often judged based on the probability or likelihood of failure, the vulnerability of a community, ecosystem or business to failure, and the likely severity of such a failure should it happen.  The role of engineers (and others) is to design, create and maintain human-made systems so that the likelihood of failure (which causes a system to not perform its intended function) is as low as reasonably achievable and so that any failure that would occur would have as benign an impact as possible."

These are the resources utilized throughout this course: