The planning of maintenance activities helps ensure that infrastructure provides adequate levels of service. This course introduces the development of maintenance strategies, the conversion of strategic guidance into system plans, and the selection of an intervention portfolio across multiple systems. The course consists of weekly lectures, a group project, and help sessions.

This course provides tools to predict the service being provided by infrastructure in situations where the infrastructure is expected to1) to evolve slowly with relatively little uncertainty over time, e.g. due to the corrosion of a metal bridge, and2) to change suddenly with relatively large uncertainty, e.g. due to being washed away from an extreme flood.

• Systems Engineering is a way of thinking that helps engineer sustainable systems, i.e. ones that meet the needs of stakeholders in the short, medium and long terms.• This course provides an overview of the main principles of Systems Engineering, and includes an introduction to the use of operations research methods in the determination of optimal systems.

• Systems Engineering is a way of thinking that helps engineer sustainable systems, i.e., ones that meet the needs of stakeholders in the short, medium and long term.• This course provides an overview of the main principles of Systems Engineering, and includes an introduction to the use of operations research methods in the determination of optimal systems.