Course ID: | ENVE 3510. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. |
Course Title: | Modeling, Statistical Analysis, and Uncertainty |
Course Description: | Modeling and analysis of engineering problems under uncertainty
with applications of probability and statistical concepts and
methods. Data collection, measurements, simulation, model
development, misinformation, validation, and analysis with
environmental applications. |
Oasis Title: | MODEL, STAT ANALY |
Prerequisite: | MATH 2260 |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | By the end of this course, students will have an understanding
of:
(1) The uncertainty inherent to collection of environmental
data
(2) Simulation and analysis within uncertain environmental
problem spaces
(3) The principles and concepts of probability and statistics
in analyzing and designing environmental engineering systems
(4) A systematic technique for describing uncertainty and
realizing risk in environmental applications
(5) Quantitative methods for describing direct and indirect
relationships among environmental variables |
Topical Outline: | 1) Descriptive statistics
a) Means, medians, variance, co-variance, percentiles
2) Programming in MATLAB
a) MATLAB language
b) Vectors and matrices in MATLAB
c) Variables, arrays and scripts
d) Loops
3) Probability
a) Sample spaces
b) Assigning probabilities
c) Outcomes
d) Distributions
e) Random variables in environmental applications
f) Independent events
g) Joint and conditional probabilities
h) Repeated trials
4) Combinatorics
a) Combinatorial methods
b) Combinatorial techniques for evaluating probability
5) Simulation
a) Stochastic
b) Monte Carlo
c) Deterministic
d) Probability distributions
e) Expectation
f) Population mean and variance
6) Evaluating risk within uncertain domains
7) Data fitting
8) Error associated with measurements
9) Error propagation
10) Time series
11) Central Limit Theorem
12) Sampling
a) Populations, samples, random sampling
b) Error associated with sampling
c) Confidence intervals
13) Hypothesis formulation
14) Analysis of variance
a) T-test
b) Chi-squared
c) F statistics
d) ANOVA
e) Linear regression
f) Significance testing |