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Instructor: |
Dr. Harold Camp |
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Phone: |
(703) 585-7745
(with voice mail) |
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E-mail: |
hcamp@gmu.edu |
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Office Hours: |
Wednesdays before and after class, others by
appointment |
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Course
Description: |
611
System Methodology and Modeling (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 500 or
equivalent. Provides broad yet rigorous introduction to methodologies.
Emphasizes systems modeling and performance. Topics include system model and
behavior analysis, linear and nonlinear systems, discretization and
linearization, optimization, dynamic programming and optimal control.
Methodologies address system performance issues, and assist in the evaluation
of alternative system designs. Resource allocation for planning and control
introduced. |
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Text: |
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Grades: |
30% - Group Project:
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10% Define the Project & Modeling Plan ·
10% Build the Model and Execute the Plan ·
10 % Results and Interpretation of Results 30 % - Homework 20% - Mid Term
Exam 20% - Final Exam |
Group Project
The Group Project is one focal point of student effort within this
course. The majority of effort toward
the group projects will be expended outside of class, with class time being
reserved for reporting on activities. Each group will analyze a complex system,
plan a modeling activity with specific goals, build the model, execute the
plan, and interpret the results with regard to the system being modeled.
Criteria and guidance for these activities will be given in class. Each group
will present their project to the class.
Examinations:
Examinations are comprehensive over the work you and other students
performed during the course and the course lecture material. Examination will
be open book and open note since the examinations will test you on the
application of princeles learned. You will be expected to interpret the
material of the course, not to repeat it via rote memory. The examinations are
intended to enhance the student’s classroom experience and challenge the
student to correctly apply the course material. Examinations are not designed
to punish the student.
CLASS SCHEDULE – Updated on
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Week
1> |
31
August |
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Lecture: Overview of Systems Methodology and Modeling |
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Week
2> |
7
September |
¨ Guest
Lecturer (first half of class) ¨ Form and
Organize Groups |
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Week
3> |
14
September |
¨ Lecture:
Methodologies. ¨ Lecture:
Evaluation of alternative system designs |
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Week
4> |
21
September |
¨ Note:
Guest Lecturer (first half of class) ¨ Work on Project |
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Week
5> |
28
September |
¨ Lecture:
Systems modeling and performance ¨ Lecture:
Behavior analysis ¨ Groups:
Turn in Project Definition |
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Week
6> |
5
October |
¨ Lecture:
Linear systems |
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Week
7> |
12
October |
¨ Lecture:
Non-linear systems ¨ Groups:
Turn In Modeling Plan |
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Week
8> |
19
October |
¨ Mid-Term
Examination |
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Week
9> |
26
October |
¨ Lecture:
Discrete systems and discretization |
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Week 10> |
2
November |
¨ Lecture: Linearization |
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Week 11> |
9
November |
¨ Lecture: Optimization |
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Week 12> |
16
November |
¨ Lecture:
Dynamic programming ¨ Lecture:
Optimal Control ¨ Turn in
Model and Execution |
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Week 13> |
23
November |
¨ No Class -- Thanksgiving |
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Week 14> |
31 November |
¨ Lecture:
Resource allocation for planning and control ¨ Group 1
Presentation ¨ Group 2
Presentation ¨ Group 3
Presentation |
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Week 15> Dahlgren |
7
December |
¨ Lecture: Review for Final
Exam ¨ Group 4 Presentaiton ¨ Group 5 Presentation ¨ Group 6 Presentation |
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Week 16> |
14
December |
¨ Final Examination
(includes requirements group evaluations) ¨ Groups: Turn in Results
and Interpretation of Results |
Note: Weekly minutes of
group activities to be emailed to hcamp@gmu.edu
beginning