Unit information: Mathematics for Systems in 2009/10

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Unit name Mathematics for Systems
Unit code EMATM0005
Credit points 10
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
Unit director Professor. Champneys
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of Engineering Mathematics
Faculty Faculty of Engineering

Description including Unit Aims

This unit will give a taster to some topics in modern applied mathematics which we feel every budding systems engineer should know about. The teaching will be delivered in one full-time week, with a different topic on each day, tentative titles as follows: 1. Introduction to Matlab Simulation Environment. 2. Nonlinearity: the science of systems where outputs are not proportional to inputs. 3. How to Explore Parameter Space. 4. Information from Data. 5. Autonomous Systems and Emergent Behaviour.