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NPRE 561 - Advanced Risk Analysis
Last offered Spring 2025
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. Prerequisite: NPRE 461 or NPRE 457 or GE 411 or CEE 491.
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Schedule and Instructors
Title | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
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Advanced Risk Analysis | A | 70368 | LCD | 4 | 1100 - 1250 | T R | 214 Ceramics Building | Zahra Mohaghegh |
Advanced Risk Analysis | ONG | 73760 | ONL | 4 | - | Zahra Mohaghegh |