MIT OpenCourseWare
Doctoral Seminar in Engineering Systems
Art: William Playfair, Playfair WheatandLabour, 1822 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Dr. Christopher L. Magee, Prof. Joseph Sussman, Rebecca Saari
- Term
- Fall 2011
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 26 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare IDS.900 Doctoral Seminar in Engineering Systems, Fall 2011, Dr. Christopher L. Magee, Prof. Joseph Sussman, Rebecca Saari — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
20 files
- Session 1 · Present and future—The incorporation of social science and engineering into research and… · Lecture notes (file 1 of 2) Download
- Session 1 · Present and future—The incorporation of social science and engineering into research and… · Lecture notes (file 2 of 2) Download
- Session 2 · How do we know what we know?—The generation of cumulative knowledge in a field Guest… Download
- Session 3 · Modeling paradigms in engineering systems: Useful models and various modeling approaches… Download
- Session 4 · System and enterprise architecture: Qualitative frameworks, quantitative models, and… Download
- Session 5 · Uncertainty and its analysis in engineering systems Guest: Mort Webster Download
- Session 5 · Uncertainty and its analysis in engineering systems Guest: Mort Webster · Discussion notes Download
- Session 6 · Complexity in socio–technical systems Guest: Stuart Kauffman Download
- Session 6 · Complexity in socio–technical systems Guest: Stuart Kauffman · Discussion notes Download
- Session 7 · Complexity and urban systems Guest: Chris Kegras Download
- Session 7 · Complexity and urban systems Guest: Chris Kegras · Discussion notes Download
- Session 8 · Network analysis in socio–technical systems Guest: Marta Gonzalez Download
- Session 8 · Network analysis in socio–technical systems Guest: Marta Gonzalez · Discussion notes Download
- Session 10 · Poverty as a problem in complex systems (and empirical study) Guest: Abhijeet Banerjee Download
- Session 11 · Human dynamics and cognitive science in engineering systems Guest: Sandy Pentland Download
- Session 11 · Human dynamics and cognitive science in engineering systems Guest: Sandy Pentland · Discussion notes Download
- Session 12 · Sustainability and engineering systems Guest: Noelle Selin Download
- Session 12 · Sustainability and engineering systems Guest: Noelle Selin · Discussion notes Download
- Session 13 · Engineering design and design of complex socio–technical systems Guest: Richard de… Download
- Session 14 · Policy design/course wrap–up Download
Assignments
- 1. Observations, data sources, and data reduction (10% of total) · Files Download
- 5. Book review (10% of total) · Files Download
- 6. Historical roots and contemporary methodologies of engineering systems paper and… · Files Download
- 7. Systems concept assignment (10% of total) · Files Download
- 8. Developing a well–posed research question (10% of total) · Files Download
- 9. Critical analysis of an ES research paper (5% of total) · Files Download
MIT OpenCourseWare, Dr. Christopher L. Magee, Prof. Joseph Sussman, Rebecca Saari, IDS.900 Doctoral Seminar in Engineering Systems, Fall 2011.
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