DESIGN UNDER UNCERTAINTY

Catalog description

Tackles the problem of decision making in engineering design. The fundamental challenge faced in making decisions in engineering designs is that they are almost exclusively decisions made under uncertainty. Sources of uncertainty could result from engineering models, experiments conducted, or lack of knowledge of future events. The course will cover three basic topics 1) how do we quantify uncertainty, 2) how do we account for the uncertainty in decision making, and 3) how do we make design selection decisions about products or systems we design.