Water and Wastewater Systems Security. 3 credits

Catalog description

Examines overall security of water and wastewater systems. Covers theory and methods to define water and wastewater infrastructure as physical and organizational systems. Explores concepts of infrastructure systems security; identifies actors, interactions in organizational infrastructure, and threats to water and wastewater infrastructure; describes behavior of physical and organizational infrastructures under stress; examines history of threats or attacks against water and wastewater systems; and explores evolution of design, operations, and maintenance paradigms in response to changes in threats. Covers proactive responses to security threats through vulnerability assessments, and models of organizational and physical infrastructure system. Offered by Civil, Environ & Infrastr Engr . May not be repeated for credit.