 Hello and welcome to the course probability methods in civil engineering. This course is basically based on some newer concept in civil engineering and as you know that civil engineering is one of the core engineering discipline and in civil engineering there are several specializations. For instance, structural engineering, water resources engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, transportation engineering and the list goes on. But when I deal with any real life problem in any of the specialized area we always come across with some sort of uncertainty. So, the focus of this particular course is mainly target towards the dealing with this uncertainty through some probability methods. So, in this course some basic concept as well as some advanced tool and probability methods will be demonstrated. At the end of each topic or module there are some real life problems will be demonstrated to benefit the audience of this course. In general the course is designed in such a way that it will be benefited to wide range of the students as well as community. The advanced methods and the real life problem demonstration will be helpful to the postgraduate students and the practitioners. However, at the same time the basic concepts and the applications will be helpful to the undergraduate students as well. I welcome you all to this course.