Engineering of Socio-technical Systems 6 Credits
Course Contents
The course introduces systems thinking and describes its application to the concept of engineering complex systems, in which software plays a key role. The value of modelling itself is emphasised as a way of understanding and designing socio technical systems. Research and problem solving methods with a strong basis in the systems tradition are elaborated and used in the course.The course includes the following topics:
- Systems thinking
- Hard and Soft systems
- Representing systems through modeling and models
- Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- Socio-technical systems and purposive behavior
- Complexity, chaos theory and emergent behaviour
Prerequisites
General entry requirements and Mathematics D or Mathematics 3c (or the equivalent). Proof of English proficiency is required..Level of Education: Undergraduate G1N
Course code/Ladok code: TUSG15
The course is conducted at: School of Engineering