The goal is to select one of the themes below, find one case study on the selected theme and develop a risk paper following the instructions provided.
Objective:
Assess, evaluate, prioritise, and treat risks in engineering projects and systems lifecycle
Topics/Themes:
1. Human error: Humans play an important role during the design, installation, production, and
maintenance phases of a product or system. Human error may be defined as the failure to perform a specified task (or the performance of a forbidden action) that could lead to disruption of
scheduled operations or result in damage to property and equipment.
2. Security: This area involves estimating access and harm caused due to war, terrorism, riot, crime (vandalism, theft, etc.), and misappropriation of information (national security information,
intellectual property, etc.).
Introduction:
To have a thorough understanding of what constitutes engineering risk management and how
theories, concepts, methods, etc. can be employed in industrial practice, this assignment provides the opportunity for students to put their knowledge into practice by implementing the quantitative risk assessment and risk-based decision-making methods. As it is vital for students to be able to communicate and present their results in their disciplines, the IEEE template which is used by many engineering journals and conferences is adopted for the sake of
presentation.
Instructions:
1. Select one case from Assignment 1 relevant to your chosen topic/theme.
2. Research your topic by reading and analysing at least 10 recent journal papers.
3. Study Canvas Module 6 before starting to write your paper to learn the structure, components, and ingredients of an IEEE scientific paper.
4. Decide a good title for your paper considering your topic and case study. Title should accurately reflect the paper main idea and its content.
5. Write a 200-words abstract including motivation for the study, objective(s), methods, and results and interpretation. Include Keywords that are relevant to your study.
6. Write a good introduction including contextualization, topic importance, case study introduction,
paper objective(s), problem-solving approach, and finally the paper structure.
7. Review the literature including problem background and related works, more recent references
would be better. The main keyword definitions should be presented here. You may have some subsections to organize this section very well.
8. Develop a research methodology to assess and reduce risks. You need to incorporate at least two techniques in the research methodology from the literature. These could include two quantitative risk assessment techniques or one quantitative risk assessment technique and one risk based decision-making technique. Do not limit yourselves to the subject materials. The methodology should be logical and robust to support the discussion.
9. Implement the research methodology in the case study step by step and present the results. Analyse the results and highlight major findings. Tables and figures should be represented in high quality with adequate explanation.
10. Discuss the results and do a sensitivity analysis to make sure the results are reliable. Propose some risk reduction strategies and show unacceptable risks are managed. Limitations of the work must be listed as well.
11. Write a conclusion of what have been done for what purpose, what are the findings, and propose some future research directions.
12. All content must be written without grammatical errors in IEEE template (available on Canvas) and must be fully referenced. Include references at the end of paper consistently aligned with IEEE style.
Marking Criteria
This also forms the structure of your assignment document
Title – Declarative or descriptive title reflecting the main idea and the content
Abstract and keywords – Capture the essence of findings. Three to five keywords
Introduction –
1. Contextualization
2. Importance/Relevance of the theme
3. Research question(s)
4. Research objective(s)
5. Paper structure
Theoretical background – Review relevant literature
Research methodology
Appropriate combination of methods:
▪ At least two quantitative risk assessment techniques
Or
▪ One quantitative risk assessment technique, one risk-based decision-making technique
Implementation and results
1. Enough case study description
2. Correct implementation of the research methodology
3. Original results analysis
Discussion – Sensitivity analysis, risk reduction strategies, work limitations
Conclusion and future works – Summarize the paper and suggest future research
directions
References
1. Fully in-text referencing along with a list of
2. relevant high-quality journal papers
Structure and presentation
1. Well-structure and well-presented without grammatical errors
2. Conform to the IEEE template and referencing style 5