SENG and Safety Engineering Certificate Programs

The objective of the Safety Engineering Certificate Program administered by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center is to teach the knowledge and skills required for safety, health, and environmental engineering. The required knowledge and expertise includes hazard identification and characterization needed for risk assessment, risk reduction, and risk management of engineering systems. The need for risk analysis is increasing together with continual growth in system complexity and elevations of standards for safer and more environmentally compatible engineering systems.

To include more explicit risk assessment methods in the curriculum, two new SENG courses have been developed for students in all engineering disciplines. SENG 489, Engineering Risk Analysis, offered Fall semester, is a broad course to teach a holistic engineering systems approach of hazard characterization, statistical inference, and risk assessment so that students can make risk-informed decisions involving risk reduction, management, and communication.SENG 489/689, Quantitative Risk Analysis, offered Spring semester, includes detailed tools of probabilistic risk assessment, which is needed for understanding and managing dynamic systems in which risk can be cost-effectively reduced and maintained as low as possible while achieving high performance levels. The usefulness of the quantitative tools taught in this course is becoming increasingly recognized in the U.S.

Because of the importance of teaching explicit risk methods in the Safety Engineering Certificate Program, students will take one of the two Risk Analysis courses, 489, Engineering Risk Analysis, or 489/689, Quantitative Risk Analysis, as part of the required 9 course hours. To maintain 9 required hours, students will take 310 Industrial Hygiene Engineering and would select either 312 System Safety Engineering or 321 Industrial Safety Engineering. These last two courses, 312 and 321, have significant overlap, and when they are combined with risk analysis including exercises and case studies from diverse engineering applications, the system safety and industrial safety principles will be more effectively reinforced in the SENG curriculum. Both of the 312 and 321 courses are also available as elective courses and may be taken to satisfy the certification requirements.

These SENG course requirements for the Safety Engineering Certificate have been approved by university committees and are now official as shown below. The required course hours remain unchanged at 9 hours and the total hours remain unchanged at 15 hours.

Safety Engineering Certificate Program

The Safety Engineering Certificate Program, administered by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, is relevant to all engineering disciplines and teaches knowledge and skills required for safety, health, and environmental engineering. The certificate requires 15 hours of courses from the listing below that are applicable to the graduation requirement. If you are interested, please find the application and worksheet at http://essap.tamu.edu/safety.htm

Required SENG Courses	Th-Pr	Cr
310 Industrial Hygiene Engineering	3-0	3
312 System Safety Engineering or 321 Industrial Safety Engineering	3-0	3
489 Engineering Risk Analysis or 489/689 Quantitative Risk Analysis	3-0	3

In addition, select:
Any pre-approved engineering capstone design course that includes a safety component.	3-0	3

And select 1 or 2 SENG courses from the following:
309 Radiological Safety	3-0	3
312 System Safety Engineering	3-0	3
313 Product Safety Engineering	3-0	3
321 Industrial Safety Engineering	3-0	3
424 System Safety Analysis and Design	1-6	3
439 Ergonomics Design	1-6	3
455 Process Safety Engineering	3-0	3
477 Air Pollution Engineering	3-0	3
485 Directed Studies	3-0	3
489 Engineering Risk Analysis	3-0	3
489/689 Quantitative Risk Analysis	3-0	3