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From: mjdb@dorevale.demon.co.uk (Mike Brown)
Subject: Safety Critical Systems Vacation School Announcement
Date: 1996/04/17
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                   THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
                         Savoy Place London WC2R 0BL
 
                                  ANNOUNCES
 
            The Fifth Vacation School on Safety Critical Systems
 
                                to be held at

             Robinson College Cambridge 15 - 18 September 1996
 
              (Co-sponsored by the British Computer Society)
 
Since 1992 the Institution of Electrical Engineers has organised an annual
vacation school aimed at providing participants with a broad understanding
of the principles of safety critical systems engineering, with particular
emphasis on the theory and practice of current techniques for defining and
managing the risk potential of computer-based systems.  The fifth in this
series of intensive short residential courses will be held this year at
Robinson College, Cambridge, from Sunday 15th September until Wednesday
18th September.
 
The field of safety critical systems includes those processes, products,
and services where a breakdown or design fault is likely to result in death
or injury or damage to property.  Added emphasis is given to the problem of
protecting against such consequences by the development of new legal codes
of product liability.  It is likely to become increasingly difficult for
companies that have not employed explicit risk minimization and management
techniques to argue successfully that they have exercised proper legal care
for the safety of their products and services.
 
The structure of the vacation school is designed to provide a comprehensive
survey of the issues involved in safety critical systems engineering at a
professional but non-specialist level.  The goal is to provide a framework
of common understanding to link people working in the requirements capture,
architectural design, risk and hazard assessment, reliability, software,
quality assurance, human factors, and project management functions; and to
provide a good foundation for their future professional development.
 
The vacation school lecture programme is based on the "safety lifecycle"
concept embodied in International Standard IEC 1508, (Functional Safety of
Safety-Related Systems), supplemented by a closely coordinated case study to
provide learning reinforcement and a thematic linkage between the lecture
sessions.
 
For full details of the vacation school programme and a registration form,
please send e-mail to SEvans@iee.org.uk or write to Miss Sarah Evans at the
address given at the head of this announcement.
 
Posted on behalf of the vacation school organising committee.
 
Regards,
Mike Brown.
-- 
M J D Brown: Newhaven, Peterchurch, Herefordshire HR2 0RT, England