Role of probability in civil engineering problems; Definition of basic random events; Application of set theory in definition of composite event operations; Probability of events and definition of probability axioms; Random variables; Probability definitions; Moments and expectations; Functions of random variables; Common probability models; Statistics and sampling; Regression and correlation analyses; Estimation of distribution parameters from statistics; Hypothesis testing and significance; Bayesian updating of distributions; Uncertainty quantification; Probabilistic analysis; Methods of structural reliability; Applications to design of civil engineering systems.