Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 2.994 (January (IAP) 2007) 
• Course Title:
• MADM with Applications in Material Selection and Optimal Design 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Mechanical Engineering 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Dr. Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani 
• Course Introduction:
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  2.994 MADM with Applications in Material Selection and Optimal Design
  
  
  
  

  January (IAP) 2007

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a list of book and article readings, a take-home exam, and examples of student projects. This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course begins with a comparative review of conventional and advanced multiple attribute decision making (MADM) models in engineering practice. Next, a new application of particular MADM models in reliable material selection of sensitive structural components as well as a multi-criteria Taguchi optimization method is discussed. Other specific topics include dealing with uncertainties in material properties, incommensurability in decision-makers opinions for the same design, objective ways of weighting performance indices, rank stability analysis, compensations and non-compensations.