# System Safety

The collapse of I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in 2007. (This image is in the public domain).

### Instructor(s)

Prof. Nancy Leveson

### MIT Course Number

16.63J / IDS.045J / (formerly ESD.03J)

### As Taught In

Spring 2016

### Level

Undergraduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Online textbooks
- Selected lecture notes
- Assignments: written (no examples)

## Course Description

This course introduces the concepts of system safety and how to analyze and design safer systems. Topics include the causes of accidents in general, and recent major accidents in particular; hazard analysis, safety-driven design techniques; design of human-automation interaction; integrating safety into the system engineering process; and managing and operating safety-critical systems.

## Other Versions

## Other OCW Versions

Archived versions:

- 16.63J System Safety (Fall 2012)

## Related Content

## Course Collections

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- Aerospace Engineering
- Systems Engineering

Nancy Leveson. 16.63J System Safety. Spring 2016. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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