ME6105 Lectures for Spring 2009
Course Overview and Introduction
- Lecture 1: Course objectives, overview
- Lecture 2: Modeling of Energy-Based Systems
- Lecture 3: Object Oriented Modeling in Dymola
Modeling the Structure of Design Problems
- Lecture 4: Decision Making in Design; influence diagrams
- Lecture 5: Modeling design decision problems (2 lectures)
Modeling of Energy-Based Systems
- Lecture 6: What is modeling and simulation?
- Lecture 7: The Modelica Language (2 lectures)
- Lecture 8: Solving Differential Equations
- Lecture 9: Solving Differential Algebraic Equations
- Lecture 10: Debugging Modelica Models (in class exercise: DebuggingLectureHandout.mo)
Modeling Uncertainty
- Lecture 11: Uncertainty, Probability Theory (extra background: probability basics)
- Lecture 12: Probability Distributions in Practice
- Lecture 13: Computing with uncertain information
Modeling Preferences
- Lecture 14: Value Functions and trade-offs under certainty
- Lecture 15: Modeling Designer Preferences under Uncertainty
- Lecture 16: Multi-attribute Utility Theory
- Lecture 17: Design Example -- Multi-Attribute Utility Theory in Practice
(example from class: carDesignExample.pcx) - Lecture 18: The Role of Optimization in Design
- Lecture 19: Information Economics: trade-offs between (design) process and system objectives