MADM with Applications in Material Selection and Optimal Design

Photo of human powered aircraft being pedaled in flight.

Human-powered aircraft, such as the NASA/MIT Daedalus 88 pictured above, present significant materials selection challenges. In his class project, student John Decker Ringo looked at materials selection techniques for the wing spar of a new human-powered aircraft design. (Photo by Beasley. Courtesy of NASA.)

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MIT Course Number

2.994

As Taught In

January IAP 2007

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Highlights

This course features a list of book and article readings, a take-home exam, and examples of student projects.

Course Description

This course begins with a comparative review of conventional and advanced multiple attribute decision making (MADM) models in engineering practice. Next, a new application of particular MADM models in reliable material selection of sensitive structural components as well as a multi-criteria Taguchi optimization method is discussed. Other specific topics include dealing with uncertainties in material properties, incommensurability in decision-makers opinions for the same design, objective ways of weighting performance indices, rank stability analysis, compensations and non-compensations.

This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

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Abbas Milani. 2.994 MADM with Applications in Material Selection and Optimal Design. January IAP 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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