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Resilience Engineering2015VT
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Course plan
No of lectures 7
Covers the latest results on how resilience is built, and sometimes lost, in organizations across all industrial sectors including transportation systems in maritime, aviation, ground, rail areas; health care systems; business continuity; financial systems; military; communities; disaster response and recovery including extreme (weather) events; infrastructures such as energy, web and digital services.
Recommended for
Graduate level with UG senior participation at OSU.
The course was last given
Never
Goals
The class explores cases of resilience in action and contrasts them with stories of systems that inadvertently became too brittle and failed in order to highlight general patterns and fundamental principles. To put the knowledge base into action, organizations need ways to assess the value or priority of investments to advance resilience, as well as other techniques. The current state of measures and techniques will be explored in the class. The class will cover the effects of new technology such as increasingly autonomous vehicles (i.e., automata are inherently brittle), the emergency room as a natural laboratory to observe resilience in action, and proactive safety management
Prerequisites
Background in Cognitive science, Safety engineering or Human Factors
Organization
Lecture, discussion of readings and cases, exercises in analyzing adaptive cycles
Contents
Covers the latest results on how resilience is built, and sometimes lost, in organizations across all industrial sectors including transportation systems in maritime, aviation, ground, rail areas; health care systems; business continuity; financial systems; military; communities; disaster response and recovery including extreme (weather) events; infrastructures such as energy, web and digital services.
Literature
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, case High Frequency Trading to analyze.
All other readings will be supplied. Readings include works by Doyle,
Alderson, Lansing, Ostrom, Roth, Wears, and many more, plus material from
Woods’ forthcoming book Outmaneuvering Complexity
Lecturers
David Woods, Ohio State University, via streaming video. Local organizer, Rogier Woltjer
Examiner
David Woods, local examiner, Björn Johansson
Examination
Term paper, participation.
Credit
7,5
Comments
This is a unique class given as a number of streamed video lectures by Prof Woods with following local discussions at IDA/HCS.
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