ME6105 Schedule for Spring 2008

Date

Topic

Reading

1/8

Course overview and introduction
Course objectives, overview

[Clemen Ch1]

1/10

Introduction to modeling of energy-based systems

1/15

Object Oriented Modeling in Dymola

Dymola: Getting Started

1/17

Modeling the structure of design problems
Decision Making in Design; Influence diagrams

[Clemen Ch2]

1/22

Modeling design objectives

Homework 1 Due

[Clemen Ch3]

1/24

An example design problem

1/29

Modeling of Energy-Based Systems
What is modeling and simulation?

[Fritzson A.8]

1/31

The Modelica Language

[Fritzson B.1]

2/5

Evaluation and comparison of continuous-time M&S software

2/7

Solving Differential Equations -- stiffness and stability

Homework 2 Due

2/12

Solving Differential Algebraic Equations

2/14

Debugging Modelica Models

2/19

Modeling Uncertainty
Review of Probability Theory Basics

[Clemen Ch7]

2/21

Types and sources of uncertainty; representations

[Clemen Ch8]

2/26

Computing with uncertain information

[Clemen Ch11]

2/28

Uncertainty Analysis in ModelCenter

3/4

Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis

Homework 3 Due

[Clemen Ch5] [Morris C.7]

3/6

Modeling Preferences

Value functions and trade-offs under certainty

3/11

Utility Theory: preferences under uncertainty

[Clemen Ch13] [Clemen Ch14]

3/14

Multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT)

[Clemen Ch15] [Clemen Ch16]

3/18

Spring Break

3/20

Spring Break

3/25

Design Example -- MAUT in practice

3/27

Homework 4 Due

4/1

The Role of Optimization in Design

4/3

Information Economics: trade-offs between (design) process and system objectives

4/8

[Hazelrigg D.3]

4/10

Selected Topics
Information Modeling for Systems Engineering -- SysML

4/15

Discrete Event Simulation in Arena: Overview

4/17

4/22

Final Project Presentations

4/24

Final Project Presentations

5/2

HW5 Due at 5:00PM in MARC 256