This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Students will understand the concepts of negligence and standard of care.
- Students will understand the relation of safety and risk.
- Students will be able to recognize Knightian uncertainty.
- Students will learn how to avoid the retrospective fallacy in accident investigations.
- Students will be able to use the results of failure investigations properly.
- Students will learn how punishment for engineering failure interferes with learning from failure studies.
- Students will learn the general causes of engineering failures.
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