Course Catalog 2008-2009 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Juhani Koski

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1

Requirements

Exercises and a written examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

Basic skills in design optimization.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Formulation of optimization problem in engineering design. Unconstrained and constrained optimization. Algorithms and optimality conditions. Sensitivity analysis. Continuous, discrete and mixed integer problems. Conflicting design criteria and Pareto optimality. Linear and nonlinear programming. Optimal control theory. Plenty of applications in different fields of engineering design.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Passed written examination or written intermediate examinations and accepted exercises.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Introduction to Optimum Design	J., S., Arora			McGraw-Hill, 2004		English
Book	Optimization Concepts and Applications in Engineering	A., D., Belegundu and T., R., Chandrupatla			Prentice-Hall, 1999		English

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1			Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	12.08.2008
Modifier	Juhani Koski