Handbook

Increasingly, resilience is starting to be recognised as a necessary part of building fit-for-purpose systems and an essential requirement for new technologies. Supply chains, power grids, organisational strategy, and safety critical systems are all connected by the need to design in a high degree of resilience. The need for increased resilience in Australian manufacturing, energy systems and disaster response mechanisms are topical, and timely.

This stream is designed to introduce Engineering Resilience as the ability of a critical system to withstand disruption from unplanned, high impact events, and to maintain functionality in a potentially degraded state.

The stream goes beyond limitations of common risk management approaches by teaching the concept of deterministic assessment of threat in assessing high-impact, low probability events. The recommended electives lists provide the opportunity for students to develop a more advanced understanding in a chosen area, e.g. (i) human factors in safety critical systems, (ii) manufacturing management or (iii) technological components of resilient systems, including electrical grids, additive manufacturing supply chain, chemical processes or nuclear energy systems.