- Instructor
- Prof. Nancy Leveson
- Term
- Spring 2016
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 10 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 16.63J System Safety, Spring 2016, Prof. Nancy Leveson — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
9 files
- System Safety: Introduction, Uberlingen; Class Description Download
- System Safety: Introduction to Accident Causality, Bhopal, Hindsight Bias Download
- System Safety: Discuss Citichem Causes, Hindsight Bias Download
- System Safety: CAST and Accident Analysis Download
- System Safety: More on CAST Download
- System Safety: Traditional Hazard Analysis Download
- System Safety: Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Intro, Basic Components Download
- System Safety: STPA and Review Projects Download
- System Safety: Design for Safety Download
Assignments and Class Project
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Nancy Leveson, 16.63J System Safety, Spring 2016.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2016 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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