Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Course Goals

• Ability to design using basic principles of design
• Invention of products based on basic principles
• Various ways of achieving robust design
• Ability to design complex systems, including software and hardware
• Understanding complexity of systems
• Reduction of complexity of engineered systems
• Teaching using many examples and case studies from diverse fields
• Learning by working on real projects (Term projects)

Prerequisites

2.004, 2.006

Textbooks

Suh, N. P. Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780195134667.

———. Complexity: Theory and Applications. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780195178760.

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