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NPRE 561 - Advanced Risk Analysis

Last offered Spring 2023

Official Description

This course covers advanced modeling techniques for Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), which provides input for risk-informed decision-making in design, operation, and regulatory oversight of complex technological systems such as nuclear power, space, chemical processes, oil and gas. Main topics: risk scenario modeling, common cause failure analysis, Bayesian updating, uncertainty analysis, Bayesian Belief Network, simulation-based PRA, probabilistic physics of failure, human reliability analysis, and expert elicitation & aggregation. PRA and Bayesian analysis software codes are utilized for assignments. Course Information: 4 graduate hours. No professional credit. Prerequisite: NPRE 461 or NPRE 457 or GE 411 or CEE 491.

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TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Advanced Risk AnalysisA70368LCD41000 - 1150 M W  203 Transportation Building Tatsuya Sakurahara
Advanced Risk AnalysisONG73760ONL4 -    Tatsuya Sakurahara