EAS 550 / STRATEGY 566 Systems Thinking for Sustainable ...
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EAS 550 / STRATEGY 566Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development & Enterprise
Monday/Wednesday10:00 – 11:30am2024 DanaWinter 2019
Ming XuAssociate Professor, School for Environment and SustainabilityAssociate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
EAS 550/STRATEGY 566 Objectives
Build competency in systems thinking
Develop skills in system dynamics modeling
Develop systems modeling and analysis skills for sustainability and business applications
Applications
Business: Understand and simulate the behavior of customers and identify areas for service improvement.o Health: promote better health or understand the effects of different
medication regimes.
o Agriculture: test a wide variety of agricultural improvement strategies without the time and expense of real-time experiments.
Government: Create holistic system view among multitude of areas, including health care delivery, public policies,urban planning to better make decision.
Research: Hidden interactions in complex systems can be revealed and research designs can be refined accordingly.