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.

Grading

Activities percentages
Two One-hour Examinations 25%
Homework 25%
Term Project 50%