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Courses - Fall 2024
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ENCE620
Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Restriction: Permission of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
Jointly offered with: ENCE410.
Credit only granted for: ENCE410, ENCE620, ENCE489L, ENRE648M or ENSE698R.
Formerly: ENRE648M and ENSE698R.
Additional information: Students must have prior coursework similar to the content offered in undergraduate course ENCE303.
Covers quantitative risk analysis and management using probability theory and statistics starting with system definition, hazard and scenario identification, likelihood estimation and consequence assessment, and finishes with economic valuation and microeconomics for informing decision making. Students will learn uncertainty, risk; natural and anthropogenic hazards and fundamental risk methods; analytical and empirical reliability and resilience estimation for components and systems; consequence, severity and loss analysis and accumulation including property and life; risk-cost-benefit tradeoffs and analysis; microeconomics and socioeconomics in risk analysis for informing decisions; and expert-opinion elicitation; among others.
Cross-listed with ENCE489L, ENRE648M, and ENSE698R. Credit only granted for ENCE489L, ENCE620, ENRE648M, or ENSE698R.