This course is Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management, and as the title says
it provides all the fundamentals of basic risk calculations. If you are thinking about
becoming a safety and reliability engineer this course provides all the basics on risk
calculations along with safety and legal implications that you will need to factor in when you try
to apply this thinking. The course is suitable for an Engineering graduate or somebody with
a Physical Sciences degree. The course is currently offered on 3 of our MSc Programmes:
Safety and Reliability Engineering, Oil and Gas Engineering and Renewable Energy Engineering.
So if you want to take this course as a single course you may have an opportunity to proceed
onto a full MSc Programme, because you're doing a first course which provides you with
fundamentals, and in terms of your career opportunities this is the first block in terms
of reliability modelling. So this where you will really see what risk is and how can you
distinguish between different types of risk. This course is offered as part of 3 MSc programmes
as I mentioned and one of them, the Safety and Reliability programme, has been one of
our longest standing MSc programmes, and we have seen that the concepts that you learn
in this module are applicable to any industry and being in Aberdeen we are able to attract
industrial collaborators from different applications who give special lectures on this module.
They also help you to understand the different career opportunities you may have and we record
all the special lectures even though they're not being assessed. So you can see that the
close working relationship with industry helps us to improve the module every year, and it
might also give you some ideas on where you may want to move to. Students will initially
learn how we understand safety and risk management and its quantification. We start by saying
that safety is linking hazards to failures and failures to consequences. So you will
understand how you can assess some types of failures and how these may lead to consequences,
and then we try to put some numbers to these events. So once you have a number for probability
of failure and a number for consequence you can understand how you can manage risk, so
this course helps you to identify the underlying principles of risk. For you to think differently
when you start looking at any system you will now realise that there are risks and you need
to think about uncertainties, and we give you all the required background. The course
is a fundamental block for any risk type of calculation so once you have an understanding
of concepts presented in this module you can essentially work in any discipline where risk
is key, but you may need additional modules for you to add additional layers that are
required for proper risk quantification. The course is taught on campus and recorded for
online delivery. We give all the lecture notes on our online platform, which we call MyAberdeen,
along with the recordings. You can access them at any point of time as per your convenience
and stream the videos along with the lecture notes to understand the concepts discussed.
When it comes to assessment, the course has two types of assessment. One is continuous
assessment for 20% and then the exam is 80%. The continuous assessment will be designed
in such a way that it is suitable for online students, so you'll have sufficient time to
plan and manage your work. Then the exam can be connected to anywhere in the world and
we have arrangements to connect these exams overseas, so you don't have to come to Aberdeen
to do this course. It is expected that the course takes around 10 to 15 hours of your
time per week to cover the discussed lecture material. If you need further support you
can discuss with the course coordinator or your classmates on MyAberdeen. We have discussion
boards and other opportunities to interact with your course coordinator.