Sustainable Systems Design

The Lecture

The aim of the Sustainable Systems Design lecture is to provide suitable engineering methods for design of complex technical systems with regard to sustainability. Students are led to extend the system boundary of the technical system itself in the economic, environmental and social dimension considering three objectives: minimising effort, maximising availability and maximising acceptance. Upon acquiring various methods of abstraction, simplification and optimisation, students can master analysing, modelling and solving complex engineering problems. Moreover, students learn to choose appropriate metrics to evaluate sustainability of technical systems.

This lecture is a continuation of the lecture Analyse und Synthese technischer Systeme, which is no longer offered.

Organisational matters

TUCan Lecture16-98-4074-vl Sustainable Systems Design
Exercise 16-98-4074-ue Sustainable Systems Design
Course Master 6CP – Wahlpflichtbereich I
Semester winter
Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing Peter Pelz
Examination
 summer: written examination
winter: written examination
Contact Tobias Meck
Consultation-hours by arrangement

  • Sustainability and Socio-Technical Systems
  • Modelling Technical Systems
    • axiomatic models
    • half-empirical models
    • empirical models (Design of Experiments)
    • data-driven models (Neural Networks)

  • Uncertainty Quantification
    • measurement and model uncertainty
    • Bayesian statistics and inference

  • Model Order Reduction
    • dimensional analysis
    • condensed knowledge
    • perturbation methods
    • principal component analysis
    • multi-pole system analysis

  • Product Development
    • function and quality
    • functional structure
    • innovations
    • smart modules vs. smart modularisation
    • Wardley maps
    • Pareto front and asymptotes
  • System Optimisation
    • function and quality vs. objectives and constraints
    • component and system optimisation
    • robust design

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