MEEG 4104 – Decision-Making in Complex
Systems Design
Lecture 1 – Course Overview
Instructor: Zhenghui Sha (zsha@uark.edu)
Lecture Objectives:
• Introduction and walk through of the syllabus
• Self introduction and research in SiDi Lab
Department of Mechanical Engineering | University of Arkansas | Fayetteville, AR 72701
About Me
• Zhenghui Sha, Assistant Professor, MEEG
• Ph.D. in ME (Purdue)  Postdoc Fellow
(Northwestern)  Joined UofA in 2017.
• Research Interests: Decision-making in
engineering design; Complex networks;
Game theory; Human-AI in Design.
• Lab info: System Integration and Design
informatics Laboratory (SiDi Lab)
https://sidilab.net
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Research At a Glance
Airlines
Policy Makers
Passengers
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Research At a Glance
The practice of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by
employees or suppliers, to a large group of people in the form
of open tournaments. [J. Howe, 2008]
How should we design effective crowdsourcing
initiatives for engineering design?
Fast Adaptable Next-Generation Ground
Combat Vehicle (FANG GCV) [DARPA, 2010]
Research At a Glance
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Research At a Glance
Research At a Glance
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Research At a Glance
Weak
Nodes’ preferences to degree
Strong
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Teaching Philosophy
• Expectancy-value of motivation
– The perception about the odds of success.
– The value of completing a task.
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
– Developed by Benjamin Bloom and his
collaborators in1956.
– Six major categories: knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis,
synthesis, and evaluation.
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
• http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/effecti
ve-teaching-practices/revised-bloomstaxonomy/revised-blooms-taxonomy-flashversion
• Why I use Bloom’s Taxonomy
– Objectives/learning outcomes are important
– It helps to organize the teaching objects
– Organize objectives helps to clarify objectives
for YOU
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Line out the concepts you need to
Remember.
• Examples: Understand and comprehend
• HW and Quiz: Apply
• Applications: Analyze, Synthesis and
Evaluation
• Projects: Create and Reinforce.
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Syllabus Walk Through
• Check your Blackboard
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