By the end of the course the student is expected:

1) to be able to conduct engineering decision analysis under risk and employ utility theory;

2) to have a full understanding of the uncertainties involved in civil engineering problems and the resulting risks;

3) to utilize different statistical and probabilistic methods for the modeling and analysis of uncertainties;

4) to be able to evaluate risk and formulate risk-based design;

5) to be able to model different engineering problems involving random variations in space and time.