6.976 Quantitative Foundations of Engineering Systems (H)

L MW1-2:30, Room 66-154, R01 F2-3:30, Room 66-154
Professor Devavrat Shah, devavrat@mit.edu, Professor Sanjoy Mitter, mitter@mit.edu
Prereq.: 6.041, or permission of instructor
3-1-8

This subject qualifies as a Communication, Control and Signal Processing Engineering Concentration subject.

This interdisciplinary course aims to teach quantitative principles of design and analysis of large complex engineering systems at the beginning graduate level. The course will teach principles of modeling, systems design, control and performance analysis using ideas from control, optimization, algorithms and stochastic processes. The course will be more conceptual and less technical (mathematical). That is, use of mathematics (sometimes sophisticated) will be taught but the detailed proofs will usually be omitted. The concepts will be supported and explained with examples drawn from the Internet. This course will provide the necessary background for advanced courses on foundations of engineering systems. Pre-requisite. The course requires basic knowledge of calculus, optimization, probability and algorithms. In particular, we require the basic course on probability (6.041) as a pre-requisite. Depending on mathematical maturity of student, the pre-requisite is negotiable.