Safety + reliability + security¶
Five ranked references. Rank 1 is the default spine, not a requirement to read all five.
1 | An Introduction to System Safety Engineering¶
Nancy G. Leveson | Safety primary spine | Upper undergraduate / graduate
Modern system-safety foundation centered on hazards, constraints, accidents, STPA/STAMP, and sociotechnical causality.
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2 | Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety¶
Nancy G. Leveson | Open systems-safety depth | Graduate / professional
Landmark systems-theoretic account of accident causation, control structures, organizational factors, and safety constraints.
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3 | Practical Reliability Engineering¶
Patrick D. T. O'Connor, Andre Kleyner | Reliability spine | Professional / upper undergraduate
Applied reliability prediction, testing, failure data, maintainability, FMEA, reliability growth, and life-cycle methods.
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4 | Risk Analysis in Engineering: Techniques, Tools, and Trends¶
Mohammad Modarres | Risk analysis | Graduate / professional
Quantitative risk, uncertainty, fault/event trees, common-cause failure, and decision support.
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5 | Security Engineering¶
Ross Anderson | Security spine | Upper undergraduate / professional
Deep systems-security reasoning spanning protocols, authentication, hardware, banking, physical systems, economics, and adversaries.
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