System Dynamics Applied Practice II: Simulation Model Translation and Adaptation

1 unit

This course focuses on supporting students to apply concepts, skills, and tools of SWPM 6077 System Dynamics Modeling for Strategic Design to applied community contexts. This course will help students learn how to identify relevant system dynamics model structures and adapt those models for use in new problem domains to support community-based planning and dialogue. The course will focus on skills in development of model structure from equations; identification of generic structures; model confidence building, sensitivity analysis and critique; parameter estimation and model calibration. The course is structured as a group independent study; specific meeting times and frequency will be determined based on student and instructor schedules.