The bachelor's thesis is the culmination of the program. The students develop, enhance, and demonstrate their methodological abilities to independently tackle and solve a given research problem. The thesis furnishes the students with their first major research experience, and is a further development of the work done in the basis courses, and usually, the focused study.

Comprehensive look into risk and safety issues of major technical systems and respective analysis techniques. Inclusion of environmental risks because of accidental releases of substances. Beginnings of an integral risk management. Practical case studies.

ANYLOGIC is a Java-based tool that supports different modeling approaches. The tool is used for simulation of technical system failures.

Fundamentals of thermal sciences, linked to energy conversion

Probabilistic methods of reliability evaluation, importance analysis, reliability prediction etc. Examples of use in the fields of mechanical and electrical engineering, computer science. Established techniques e.g. Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Block Diagrams, Markovian chains, FMEA. Comparison and improvement of systems. Model extension to renewable units and dependent failures.

Comprehensive look into risk issues within the context of complex technological/human-environment systems at a regional level. The basic principles and methods for risk assessment and risk management are provided.

Framing topical problems, providing knowledge on highly integrated large scale technical systems, introducing advanced models and tools for assessing their risk and vulnerabilities. Comprehensive use of advanced modelling techniques and management concepts for strengthening their performance and robustness.

The lectures cover all the interdisciplinary questions of risk and safety of major technical systems, not only in the "classical" technical sense, but also rather in a wider sense including possible environmental risks. Approaches for risk minimisation and system optimisation are introduced.

Knowledge about safety concepts and requirements of nuclear power plants and their implementation in deterministic safety concepts and safety systems. Knowledge about behavior under accident conditions and about the methods of probabilistic risk analysis and how to handle results. Introduction into key elements of the enhanced safety of nuclear systems for the future.