DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

Catalog description

Three hours of lecture per week; 45 hours per semester. The course covers two fundamental issues in engineering design: design theory and design practice. The first half semester will be used for learning fundamental design theory, and topics include: fundamentals of engineering design, optimality conditions, linear and nonlinear programming, primal and dual theory, topology/sizing/shape design. The second half will be allocated for practicing engineering design problems, and topics include: response surface method, robust design using Taguchi method and Genetic Algorithm, introduction of multidisciplinary design optimization, engineering uncertainty in design.