ESD.00
Introduction to Engineering Systems
Spring 2011
Topics
- Introduction to critical contemporary issues (CCIs)and complex systems
- Project recitations
- System dynamics I: Introduction
- System dynamics II: System structure and behavior
- Full class recitation: Tutorial on Vensim
- System dynamics III: Simulation
- Uncertainty I: Introduction
- Full class recitation: Introduction to random variables
- Uncertainty II: Applications
- Networks I: Introduction, structure, and behavior
- Networks II: Applications
- Full class recitation: Midterm project presentations
- Considering stakeholders with different values in decision making
- Project recitations (cont.)
- Class field trip
- Design of an Engineering Systems Division (ESD) undergraduate major
- Final project oral presentations
Readings
- Sterman, John D. Chapters 1, 3 and 5 in Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 9780072389159.
- Sterman, John D. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 in Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 9780072389159.
- Sterman, John D. Chapters 8, 9, and 10 in Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 9780072389159.
- Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference . Back Bay Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780316346627.
- Bertsekas, Dimitri P., and John N. Tsitsiklis. Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Introduction to Probability . 2nd ed. Athena Scientific, 2008. ISBN: 9781886529236.
- Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means . Plume, 2003. ISBN: 9780452284395.
- Martland, Carl D. Sections 5.5 and 5.6 in Toward More Sustainable Infrastructure: Project Evaluation for Planners and Engineers . 1st ed. Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 9780470448762.
- Mitchell, Ronald K., Bradley R. Agle, et al. “Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts.” Academy of Management Review 22, no. 4 (1997): 853-86.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.