Resilience Engineering

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Didier Van Caillie

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, companies must seek to maximize their impact and the results (financial and societal) they generate, but must also seek to minimize the consequences of the internal and external risks that weigh on them.

This course focuses on this second objective:

first, it presents the techniques, tools and methods that allow, in a logic of integrated risk management (Enterprise Risk Management logic), to identify risks, to characterize them, to measure their criticality and to act proactively on them in order to mitigate their effects or to transfer their consequences;
Secondly, it presents the techniques, tools and methods that enable an organization to become resilient (= to be able to face any undesirable event, whatever its nature) by building a resilient system based on a just safety culture.
 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

• Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the following fields: performance management systems, resilience engineering and risk management and being able to mobilize them in order to solve concrete management problems or cases
• Capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem, to perform a rigorous analysis of it and to suggest pertinent solutions
• Understanding and being capable of using modelization methods in the fields of performance management and risk management when seeking a solution for a concrete management problem
• Providing concrete solutions to a management problem, integrating a dimension of technology, innovation or production
• Being capable of professional team work
• Developing leadership through the group work and through the use of the EFQM Model as a reference for work.
• Developing a critical sense (arguing)
• Developing a transversal, global vision
• Creative conception of solutions
• Professional capacity for oral and written communication
• Faced with a management problem, suggesting solutions that are ethical and socially responsible and that respect the principles of good governance

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Prerequisites (basics and principles) :

• Management accounting
• Management control
• Business Modeling, Control & Planning

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Every student delivers 3 individual presentations:
The first focuses on a chapter from the reference book devoted to the context in which integrated risk and resilience management occurs or a chapter devoted to one of the 6 steps in a typical integrated risk management process
The second is about the actual content of integrated risk management, whether internal (financial, technological, operational or market risks) or external (economic, political, legal, societal, environmental risks) or on a synthesis of a major scientific contribution related to the engineering of resilience as practiced in the industrial world.

In parallel, in groups of two, the students put into practice the tools, techniques and methods seen in the course in the context of a real company, in order to carry out :
an integrated mapping of the risks that are present
an evaluation of the criticality of these risks (impact matrix)
a proposal of actions to be taken to create a resilient management system.


 

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Blended learning


Additional information:

The course is organized in 10 sessions of 3 hours eacb. Each session is dedicated to the presentation of the different tools used during the course and in debriefing sessions allowing to follow-up your work in the firm. The planning and the location are available in the section "Timetables" on the official Website dedicated to the Master in Business Engineering program.
 
 

Recommended or required readings

See the Lola Campus of HEC School of Management.

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- Remote

oral exam

Written work / report

Continuous assessment


Additional information:

Individual presentation 1: 15 points Individual presentation 2: 15 points
Individual presentation 3: 20 points
Preparation, follow-up and defense of the work in the company: 50 points

Relative weighting of the individual evaluation: 75
 

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

For any question, please contact :

• Prof. Didier Van Caillie : d.vancaillie@uliege.be
• Mme Louise Colling : louise.colling@uliege.be

Contacts

Teacher : Prof. Didier Van Caillie, d.vancaillie@uliege.be