University of Canterbury new course 2018: Infrastructure systems - Criticality and Lifelines

The University of Canterbury has released a new Masters course Infrastructure Systems - Criticality and Lifelines, to be delivered later this year. Please find the course outline attached.

1. Practitioner Symposium

Please put Tuesday 28^th August in your calendars. I’ve taken the liberty of drawing up a programme for our “Practitioner Symposium” day, and notionally put your name in there, for some of you I’ve suggest a topic. However the actual content I will leave to you.

A few things:

• I’ve scheduled 30 minutes each, it’s up to you how much seminar/discussion balance you want, but I suggest 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions/discussion. We’ll need to be a bit flexible. We can change the order if necessary.
• You are welcome to attend the whole day, and I hope you do. Breaks and lunch will be catered. It would be great if as many as possible could attend the 4-5 p.m. session on “Synthesis, unifying themes, lessons learned”.
• We’ll also take you out to dinner!
• As you start to pull together a presentation, please also compile a list of required/recommend readings for your topic.
• Those of you flying/driving to Christchurch, I can arrange flights and accommodation as needed. Please let me know.

The proposed programme:

Tuesday 28^th August

• 2.Resilience Assessment

The includes a Final Project – Infrastructure Resilience Assessment, which will be due at the end of Semester 2 (i.e. several weeks after the end of the Block Course). This will use a resilience assessment tool for a given utility’s network/components. I would like to partner each student with a mentor/contact to do this. The goal is to conduct a resilience assessment of practical use to the utility.