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    Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization

    As taught in: Spring 2004

    A flow chart of the MSDO framework.

    A flow chart of the MSDO framework. (Image courtesy of Olivier de Weck.)

    Instructors:

    Prof. Karen Willcox

    Prof. Olivier de Weck

    MIT Course Number:

    16.888 / ESD.77

    Level:

    Graduate

    Course Features

    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.