TECHIE 5771

Coupled Policy and Technology Development for Intelligent Urban Systems

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

Efforts to decarbonize economies and the rapid rise in IoT devices, connectivity, and analytics has led to the development of intelligent infrastructure technologies at the regional, city, and building scales that can manage and allocate resources more efficiently and equitably. However, the adoption of intelligent infrastructure technologies has lagged expectations. This course examines policy barriers to adoption of intelligent infrastructure systems and adopts a didactic model that jointly explores policy and technology innovations (e.g. public-private partnerships) that speed the adoption in support of advancing the joint goals of decarbonization, sustainability, equity of resource access, and quality of life. The course will first focus on broad urban-scale policy issues, then sharpen focus to the implementation of building-scale technology solutions for human-centric design and operations management.

When Offered Spring.

• Students will be able to identify the costs and benefits of intelligent infrastructure systems viz-a-viz classic infrastructure systems.
• Students will be able to assess the potential barriers to adoption of intelligent infrastructure systems in the policy realms of governance, regulation and markets.
• Students will be able to critically assess the likely impact of proposed modern policy innovations on the adoption of intelligent infrastructure systems.
• Students will learn through the workshop process and projects to develop pitch presentations for joint technology-policy proposals for transition to intelligent infrastructure systems.

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