The course provides advanced tools for the risk/vulnerability analysis and engineering of complex technical systems and critical infrastructures. It covers application of modeling techniques and design management concepts for strengthening the performance and robustness of such systems, with reference to energy, communication and transportation systems.

PhD students in public policy (or related fields) get an introduction to epistemology and an overview of different methodological approaches. The course will help them design their own (interdisciplinary) research and create meaningful and policy-relevant insights.

This course provides the students with an introduction to thermodynamics and energy conversion. Students shall gain basic understanding of energy and energy interactions as well as their link to energy conversion technologies.

This course introduces the fundamentals of energy system modeling for the analysis and the optimization of the energy system design and operations.

This course introduces the fundamentals of reliability and risk analysis, from basic probability concepts to advanced computational techniques, for a variety of industrial application fields. The overall aim is to provide students with a package of methods for systematic and comprehensive system analyses to inform reliability, safety, and resilience.

This course introduces the fundamentals of reliability and risk analysis, from basic probability concepts to advanced computational techniques, for a variety of industrial application fields. The overall aim is to provide students with a package of methods for systematic and comprehensive system analyses to inform reliability, safety, and resilience.

With the global increase in interconnectivity, the potential for disruption is everywhere. Modern organisations who build resilience in all systems will respond intelligently to emergent disruptions. This course explores the concept of resilience and its application to socio-technical systems: The resilience of infrastructure systems and how individuals and social groups interact in and with them.

Introduction to the fundamentals of chemical thermodynamics and thermodynamics of mixtures.

Introduction to the fundamentals of heat transfer and technical applications of engineering thermodynamics. Extension of thermodynamic fundamentals taught in Thermodynamics I and II.