Optimisation

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Appreciate the power of using the mathematical approach to optimization problems relevant to engineering
• Develop mathematical optimization models for a range of practical problems

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the basic ideas underlying optimization techniques
• Understanding the basic optimization theory including optimality conditions and duality theory
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some of the most common standard optimization models and how they can be solved, including Simplex methods, gradient methods and Lagrangian function theory

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.