Undergraduate engineering degree programs in the United States as well as some other countries are accredited with reference to general criteria (which must be met by programs in all engineering disciplines) and program-specific criteria (which apply to a single engineering discipline (e.g., chemica...
Over the past 73 years the concept of Nuclear Weapon Detonation Safety within the United States has evolved from a simple Safing Plug, used on Little Boy and Fat Man, to the Stronglinks, Weaklinks, Barrier and collocation used today. This tutorial begins with a review of the worst Nuclear Weapon Acc...
The Bhopal accident in 1984 was the worst process industry disaster of all time. It was not an act of greed, sabotage, or incompetence. There are surprising similarities between that accident, BP Texas City, and many others. This presentation will review both accidents, how many of the issues were n...
Tutorial1.5 hoursAnalysis of an Energy Storage System (ESS) Failure and Fire Event AbstractThis tutorial will present a case study and hands-on training regarding the design, analysis, test and certification of a commercial Lithium Ion Energy Storage System (ESS) that was involved in a recent fire e...
This paper summarizes the application of system safety engineering methods to the evaluation, management and mitigation of some potential safety risks of high voltage automotive battery systems. The battery system in electric vehicles is very complex and must balance many attr...
Safely developing self-driving vehicles presents technical challenges. Among the key technical challenges are how to confidently demonstrate the safety of a self-driving vehicle when the number of permutations of operating conditions, scenarios, system inputs, etc. are complex, uncertain, and potent...
As an engineering discipline System Safety Engineering is relatively new, with an origin in the 1960s. During the last 60 years the management approaches used by the discipline have evolved and six discrete ideas have come to the fore which can be characterized as phases or eras. The newer ideas hav...
