SYSEN 5290

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SYSEN 5290
Transdisciplinarity and Systems

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Transdisciplinarity involves gaining insights about patterns that occur across or connect disciplines. The course presents multiple perspectives to study the nature, scope, value, and potential of transdisciplinarity as there is no existing universal definition, theory, or methodology. The course examines several kinds of disciplinarity as approaches to problem solving. Problems are investigated in the areas of society, engineering, and nature. Topics include characteristics, management, methodologies, analysis, and tools for understanding and applying approaches. Complex systems are addressed with consideration of interdisciplinary systems, systems-of-systems, varying scales, uncertainty, and nonlinearity.


Permission Note Open to: graduate students.

Last 4 Terms Offered (None)

Outcomes

  • Identify disciplinarity of various systems.
  • Develop transdisciplinary methods for defining, describing, and analyzing systems.
  • Demonstrate transdisciplinary approaches to solving systems problems.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20630 SYSEN 5290   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: Systems Engineering graduate students; all others by permission of department.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20631 SYSEN 5290   LEC 002

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  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

    Enrollment limited to: Systems Engineering distance learning students.