Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 16.888 (Spring 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Aeronautics and Astronautics 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Olivier de Weck
  Prof. Karen Willcox 
• Course Introduction:
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  16.888 / ESD.77 Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a complete set of lectures, as well as homework assignments with solutions.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is mainly focused on the quantitative aspects of design and presents a unifying framework called "Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization" (MSDO). The objective of the course is to present tools and methodologies for performing system optimization in a multidisciplinary design context, focusing on three aspects of the problem:

  (i) The multidisciplinary character of engineering systems, (ii) design of these complex systems, and (iii) tools for optimization.

  There is a version of this course (16.60s) offered through the MIT Professional Institute, targeted at professional engineers.

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .dat, .exe, .m, .xls, .zip.