CIVE 543 — System Dynamics for Civil and Environmental Engineering

Systems modelling, simulation, and analysis for transportation, energy, structural, construction, and environmental engineering. Overview of common feedback phenomena and their analysis using causal loop diagrams. Simulation using stock-flow, event-based, and agent-based approaches. Network representation and state-space representation of complex systems. Markov decision process. Model calibration and testing. System forecasting and optimization.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
• Department: Civil Engineering
• Prerequisites: CIVE 302 and CIVE 320 or permission of the instructor