Academic Coursework

Examined Canadian and international legal frameworks governing national security — including terrorism, foreign interference, and intelligence law — with a focus on how legal tools shape the mandates of Canada's security agencies and the accountability structures that constrain them.

Conceptual foundations of critical infrastructure protection — interdependency, resilience theory, threat taxonomies, and sector-specific protection strategies.

Operations, maintenance, and capital planning for public infrastructure assets; asset management frameworks, lifecycle analysis, and capital investment decision-making.

Applied core engineering principles — structural analysis, design loads, blast and wind effects, dam stability — to the protection of critical infrastructure, building the technical vocabulary to assess vulnerabilities and evaluate retrofitting options against natural and man-made hazards.

Hands-on application of Canada's Harmonized Threat and Risk Assessment (HTRA) methodology — identifying assets, assessing threats and vulnerabilities, and producing a defensible TRA report in partnership with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and Health Canada.

Explored emergency management and business continuity management (BCM) for critical infrastructure, applying international standards (ISO 22301, CZ1600) through business impact analyses, BCM program design, and a tabletop exercise simulating a real disruptive event.

Surveyed intelligence theory and practice — collection, analysis, failure, and reform — through a lens that included non-Western perspectives and real-world cases, delivered in partnership with CANSOFCOM to develop professional analytical and briefing skills.

Covered the science, societal impact, and mitigation of natural hazards in Canada — seismic, hydrological, atmospheric, and space weather — taught with Natural Resources Canada specialists to integrate hazard science directly into infrastructure protection and emergency planning.

Canadian cybersecurity policy, threat landscape, and regulatory environment — covering data breaches, incident response, vulnerability management, and the intersection of cyber operations with national security.

Introduced the physics of chemical explosives and blast effects on structures and human populations, developing practical assessment skills applicable to accidental explosions, terrorist attacks, and the protective design of critical infrastructure.