Approaches

Tackling engineering systems challenges will require new framing and modeling methodologies. Researchers at CCES bring an engineering mind-set to problems that do not lend themselves to purely quantitative approaches or purely technical solutions. Researchers will seek out approaches that combine perspectives from engineering, computer science, management, and social sciences to understand, design, and implement engineering systems. These approaches can be viewed as “lenses” or “sets of tools” through which particular multi-domain problems are viewed and tackled. These will include some of the following approaches:



System Architecture & Engineering
Stakeholder Network Value Analysis
Object-Process Methodology (OPM)
Design Structure Matrices (DSM)



Computational Design & Simulation
Generative Synthesis 
Discrete event
Agent Based
System Dynamics

Game Theory



Optimization and Operations Research
Decision Analysis and Statistical Decision Theory
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Mathematical Programming and Combinatorial Optimization

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Networks and Flows
Network Synthesis and Analysis
Multi-Network Correlation

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Data Driven Analysis
Machine Learning
Computational Statistics
Data Mining
Probabilistic Systems Analysis & Graphical models

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Visualization and Human Computer Interaction
Visual analytics
Scientific visualization

Tangible and virtual Interfaces

Uncertainty and Risk Management
Layers of Risk
Uncertainty modeling
Robustness and Flexibility



Life Cycle Analysis Modeling
Net Present Value Analysis
Real Options Analysis



Policy and Standards
Technical Standards and Protocols
Policy Setting Mechanisms