COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENGINEERING RELIABILITY AND RISK IN WATER RESOURCES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5117 ENGINEERING RELIABILITY AND RISK IN WATER RESOURCES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES

Course Objective

Hydraulic, hydrologic and water resources engineers have long been concerned about
failure phenomena. One of the major concerns is the definition of a failure event E, of
its probability of occurrence P(E), and the complementary notion of reliability.The
purpose of this course is to present a tutorial overview of existing work in the broad
area of reliability to aid in the process of decision making for water resources
management. A common mathematical framework is described for the various aspects of
reliability and risk in water resources.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to access and acquire hydro-meteorlogical data, evaluation of data and
2   to give strategic decisions on planning and operation of water infrastructures
3   to assess and analyze possible risks of water infrastructure
4   to determine the reliability of the design of water structures
5   to give decisions on an informed base

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Basic Concepts and Presentation of a System Framework for Risk and Reliability Considerations
2 Introduction to Basic Concepts and Presentation of a System Framework for Risk and Reliability Considerations
3 Reliability and Risk in Structures
4 Design Concepts Based on Risk and Reliability of Structures for Uncorrelated Inputs
5 Risk Based Assessment of Dam Safety
6 Reliability and Risk in Water Supply Systems
7 Water Supply Systems: Uncorrelated Inputs
8 Midterm exam
9 Water Supply Systems: Correlated Inputs
10 Reliability and Risk As Factors in Decision Making
11 Elements of Uncertainty Analysis for Decision Making
12 Applications and Advances in Decision Making
13 Multicriterion and Conflict Analysis
14 Multicriterion and Conflict Analysis

Recomended or Required Reading

Duckstein, L., Plate, E.J. (eds.), Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources,
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrect, 1987.
McBean, E. A., Hipel, K.W., Unny, T.E. (eds), Reliability in Water Resources
Management, Water Resources Publications, 1979.
Schlaifer, R., Analysis of Decisions Under Uncertainty, Robert E. Krieger Publishing
Company, Florida, 1983.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture notes, presentations, and source books are the main material. The students are
obligated to prepare a project homework.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

There will be 1 midterm exam and 1 homework assignment in determining the in-semester
grade.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Homework assignment is obligatory and a prequisite for final exam

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

nilgun.harmancioglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

9:00 to 17:00 in week

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 24 24
Preparing assignments 1 48 48
Final 1 4 4
Midterm 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 191

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.13
LO.24
LO.33
LO.43
LO.55

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