1.045 -- Systems Design and Optimization
Course Description: Consideration of societal problems of importance to civil and environmental engineers, including those arising in the context of ecology, manufacturing, energy efficient buildings, transportation and logistics, and water and infrastructure systems. Introduction to modeling of these civil and environmental engineering systems and their optimization using state-of-the-art software. Methods include both deterministic and stochastic optimization approaches, including network flows, linear, nonlinear and integer programming, risk management and decision analysis, and optimal control.

This class is at the Undergraduate level
Instructor: C. Barnhart, P. Jaillet
Prerequisites: 1.010, 1.00, or permission of instructor

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