This unit of study is designed to provide students an in-depth appreciation of the inter-connected world, its complexities and challenges, and the necessary systems-thinking and analytical skills to handle them. Globalisation, better transport, as well as technical and cultural exchanges have made the modern world truly interconnected, interdependent, and diverse. This interdependent structure and behaviour bring about significant new challenges associated with the design and management of complex systems. This unit will enable the students to tackle these challenges by providing them with the necessary systems-thinking, inter-disciplinary analysis, and leadership skills. The studied topics will include dynamical analysis of complex interdependent networks, local and global measures of network structure and evolution, cascading failures, as well as predictive measures of catastrophic failure in complex adaptive systems, and the tools that enable planning for resilient system design. This unit will equip future professionals with sufficient expertise and technical know-how for the design of efficient failure-prevention and intervention policies, and robust crisis forecasting and management.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Civil Engineering |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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must be in the Dalyell stream |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Mahendra Piraveenan, mahendrarajah.piraveenan@sydney.edu.au |
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