Models in Engineering
Who is this course for?
This course is especially relevant for those in aerospace, automotive, and defense industries, and engineers at original equipment manufacturers (OEM). It’s also designed for systems engineering professionals, directors and senior managers across a number of industries looking to innovate and optimize their operational, manufacturing, and design systems. Departmental teams are encouraged to apply.
Key Features
- This course grants Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
- Develop and apply a decision model to a design decision
- Identify when and how qualitative vs. quantitative data should be used
- Identify the basic methods and tools for modeling and simulation in a design context
- Choose an optimization method for a simple design problem
- Identify several potential structural models for an aircraft
- Size subsystem models
- Capture expert input for use in a model
- Develop a performance model
- Separate cost from performance from value models
- Identify constraints for a model
- Structure a numerical optimization program
- Describe the trade-offs between the use of physical and virtual prototypes for system verification, validation and testing
Program Overview
To earn a Professional Certificate, you must complete the four courses in the program, however, you may take individual courses too.
Model-Based Systems Engineering: Documentation and Analysis
Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering
CERTIFICATE
Course Details
Registration: Summer 2016
Start Date: Oct, 2016
Duration: 4 - 5 weeks
Time commitment: 3-5 hours per week
Learning Format: Online
Cost: $750 per course / $2,200 for entire program ($800 savings when you sign up for complete program)
If you represent a corporation and would like to negotiate a bulk rate for your employees, please send an email to: professional.education@mit.edu
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This is the second course in the four-course program Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems. You may take this course separately.
The goal of this online course is to have students articulate the types of models available in engineering and to choose when certain types of models are appropriate. Students will learn to approach modeling from an objectives-driven perspective, and they will develop a broad conceptual understanding of what a model is, as a prerequisite to MBSE.
