Kursplan för studenter vår 2024

After a successful course, the student shall;

- display knowledge of human-centred design approaches for industrial complex systems
- display knowledge of resilience engineering concepts
- display knowledge of the dynamics of making a change to a complex system

- demonstrate the ability to independently design and develop systemic integration models for complex interactions
- demonstrate the ability to articulate the mutually dependent set of priorities, perspectives, and practices that an organisation needs to carry out
- demonstrate the ability to analyse how work activities take place either retrospectively or prospectively

- demonstrate the ability to assess variability in socio-technical systems. including patterns of human-systems performance
- demonstrate the ability to assess the state of resilience in connection with organizational performance

The course provides knowledge and insights about the role of humans and organizations in the design of complex systems, regarding new technologies, people and organizations that are or will be using them, with the central issue of coordination of autonomous (or semiautonomous) agents. This also includes methods and tools to enable moving from rigid automation to flexible autonomy.

The course includes the following elements:
- Emergent functions and structures within an active system of systems
- Resilience and state-space transitions
- Work as Imagined versus Work as Actually Done
- Synetic change management
- Functional Resonance Analysis Method
- Organization-driven and Human-driven Flexibility of Sociotechnical systems
- Multi-agent co-adaptive systems

The teaching consists of lectures, seminars and exercises performed individually and in groups.

Undervisningen bedrivs på engelska.

Godkända kurser om 40 hp inom huvudområdet Teknik/Naturvetenskap samt minst 2 års arbetslivserfarenhet (eller motsvarande). Sökande med minst 180 hp inom Tekniska/Naturvetenskapliga området medges dispens från kravet på arbetslivserfarenhet. Kunskaper i engelska språket krävs.

Kursen bedöms med betygen 5, 4, 3 eller Underkänd.

The final grade for the course is based on the grade of the seminars. The final grade will only be issued after satisfactory completion of all assessments.

Examinationsmoment	Omfattning	Betyg
Seminarier1	5 hp	5/4/3/U
Projekt	2,5 hp	U/G

¹ Bestämmer kursens slutbetyg vilket utfärdas först när samtliga moment godkänts.

Kurslitteraturen fastställls 8 veckor innan kursstart.

Boy, Guy André. Human–systems integration: from virtual to tangible. CRC Press, 2020.

Hollnagel, Erik. Synesis: The Unification of Productivity, Quality, Safety and Reliability. Routledge, 2021.

Literature available in digital format from Primo (JU library system)