SY DE 301 Seminar Systems Design third year students will meet with a faculty member designated as their class professor. Performance in assignments, conceptual difficulties with courses, interrelation of coursework, later work and engineering practice will be discussed. SY DE 311 Engineering Optimization Mathematical foundations for engineering design and decision making.
Emphasis is on basic concepts and optimization methods.
Classification of techniques. Concepts of system and model, and the analysis and design process. Theory of value. Multiple criteria and trade-offs. Dealing with uncertainty and time.