Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1

Present and future – The incorporation of social science and engineering into research and problem solving

Guest: Joel Moses

 
2 How do we know what we know? – The generation of cumulative knowledge in a field  
3

Modeling paradigms in engineering systems: Useful models and various modeling approaches

Guest: David Kaiser

Assignment 1 due
4

System and enterprise architecture: Qualitative frameworks, quantitative models, and system representation

Guest: Donna Rhodes

 
5

Uncertainty and its analysis in engineering systems

Guest: Mort Webster

Assignment 5 due
6

Complexity in socio–technical systems

Guest: Stuart Kauffman

 
7

Complexity and urban systems

Guest: Chris Kegras

Assignment 6 paper due
8

Network analysis in socio–technical systems

Guest: Marta Gonzalez

 
9 Historical roots of engineering systems Assignment 6 presentation due
10

Poverty as a problem in complex systems (and empirical study)

Guest: Abhijeet Banerjee

Assignment 7 due
11

Human dynamics and cognitive science in engineering systems

Guest: Sandy Pentland

 
12

Sustainability and engineering systems

Guest: Noelle Selin

Assignment 8 due
13

Engineering design and design of complex socio–technical systems

Guest: Richard de Neufville

Assignment 9 due
14 Policy design/course wrap–up Assignment 10 due

Additional assignments are due during TA sessions, or are assigned to students on a session–wise basis. Please see the Assignments section of this course for more information.