Week 9 of 12
Validation, Risk, Safety, Sustainability, and Constructability
Demonstrating that the proposed solution can be evaluated and implemented responsibly.
Oct 26 – Nov 1 · deliverables due Nov 1 · est. 8 hrs
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Instructor note: Name the three risks most likely to sink your project — and how you would detect each one early.
Learning objectives
- Develop validation methods
- Identify technical risks
- Evaluate safety
- Consider sustainability
- Assess constructability
- Identify uncertainty
Lecture topics
- Verification versus validation
- Sensitivity analysis
- Risk assessment
- Engineering safety
- Resilience
- Sustainability and life-cycle thinking
- Constructability
- Quality assurance and uncertainty