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ENVE 335Decision Making for Environmental Engineers

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Environmental Engineering

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Decision-making, optimization, and assessment of environmental and water resource systems, and the design process in environmental engineering. Multi-criteria decision-making methods for concept and embodiment engineering design phases. Risk-based system performance metrics and trend tests. Uncertainty estimation via First-Order Uncertainty Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation. Formulation and solution of linear, integer, and nonlinear optimization models. Multi-objective optimization methods. Sensitivity analysis for decision-making and descriptive (numerical) models.

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

  • Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
    • CIVE332 - Civil Systems and Project Management (0.50)
    • MSE331 - Introduction to Optimization (0.50)

Leads to

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00148000 / 60MW 10:00–11:20
LEC 701193640 / 9999Online or by arrangement
TUT 10148010 / 60Th 13:30–14:20

Reviewed on UW Flow

100% liked it67% easy75% useful

From 6 ratings and 1 comment on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Course really picks up in the back half. The first content is fairly simple and understandable, but when the course delves into more complicated game theory/linear functions it gets tricky.

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