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Apr 18, 2024
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CAD 209 - Intro to Systems
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2022
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course will examine the various forms of systems that exist in the world around us, both natural and man-made. The course will examine the structure and behavior of these systems, explore cause and effect relationships, and analyze real-world examples of systems in operation. Students will develop systemic thinking approaches in workplace problem solving. This knowledge will be useful in evaluating courses of action in response to everyday life scenarios by viewing them systemically.
Recommended(s): Computers will be used daily in this course. Students who do not have experience using computers should not attempt this course until having first completed a course in basic computer use.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, and/or online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Evaluate a system and explain it’s structure
- Evaluate the behaviors and states of a system
- Evaluate selected systems as applied in real-life scenarios
Course Objectives
- Students will define and describe systems:
- Historical perspectives of systems
- Types & examples of systems
- Scales of systems (simple vs complex)
- Students will define and describe system structures
- Processes vs systems
- Boundaries (Open vs Closed)
- Components
- Relationships
- Exchanges
- Feedback
- Students will identify system behaviors & states
- Static vs dynamic
- Continuous vs discrete
- Inputs & outputs
- Linear vs nonlinear
- Resilience
- Emergence
- Equilibrium
- Tipping points
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