ENMA 288:
System Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
Course Description
This course surveys a range of qualitative and quantitative modeling, simulation, and analysis tools and processes. The approaches reviewed are essential tools for engineers and engineering managers, and enable complete and concise specification, operating description, and performance and reliability assessment of complex products, processes, and services.
These skills will serve engineers and engineering managers well in their pursuit of innovative solution to business and industry problems. This course also provides a strong foundation for other ENMA courses, which presume an ability to apply these tools and processes in course projects.
This course provides
survey-level overviews targeted at managers and decision makers vs.
practitioners. That being said, this
course involves significant individual and project team activities which
involve modeling, simulation, and analysis of complex real-world systems.
Approaches presented
include:
·
Qualitative
Approaches -
·
Entity
relationships
·
Data/material
flow
·
State
transition
·
Process
flow
·
Causal
loops
·
Quantitative
Approaches –
·
Monte-Carlo
simulation
·
Linear
programming
·
Decision
trees
·
Bayesian
approaches
·
Supplemental
Approaches (time permitting) -
·
Object
oriented programming
·
Swarm systems