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Lecture Notes

This section contains most of the lecture notes, and selected guest lectures.

LEC # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES GUEST LECTURES
1 ESD present and future: the incorporation of social science and engineering into research and problem solving (PDF)  
2 How do we know what we know? The generation of cumulative knowledge in a field (PDF)  
3 Boundary setting in engineering systems: where do systems end and begin? Qualitative frameworks, quantitative models and system representation (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
4 Modeling paradigms: useful models and various modeling approaches (PDF)  
5 Historical analysis of engineering systems (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
6 Uncertainty in engineering systems (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
7 Empirical data generation: observation of engineering systems (PDF)  
8 Empirical data analysis: inferring system-level behavior in engineering systems (PDF) (PDF) (Courtesy of Dan Frey. Used with permission.)
9 Network models in engineering systems (PDF)  
10 Historical roots of engineering systems    
11 System and product design (PDF)  
12 Product and policy evaluation (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
13 Engineering systems analysis and wrap-up (PDF) (PDF)