CivE 779D

Future Infrastructure Systems


Description

This highly interdisciplinary course introduces emerging concepts and technologies within the framework of sustainable and resilient smart cities. It offers a broad overview of future cities and their key components, including Future Infrastructure Systems, Future Energy Systems, and Future Mobility Systems. The course places particular emphasis on Future Infrastructure Systems (FIS), exploring their sustainability and resiliency. Topics covered include sensing technologies, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and the interdependencies, operation, management, and decision-making processes crucial for the development and maintenance of FIS.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the main components of FIS and their roles in developing sustainable and resilient smart cities.
2. Apply recent advances in emerging technologies, such as sensing, data analytics, and AI, to challenges related to FIS.
3. Describe the requirements for adapting existing infrastructure systems to future cities, with a focus on sustainability and resilience in the face of climate change.
4. Analyze the interdependencies within FIS.
5. Explain the requirements for enhancing the resilience of FIS.

Lecture Seminar Lab Credits Total AU
3 0/1 0/1 3 37.8
M % NS % CS % ES % ED %

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Undergraduate Program(s)


Sections & Respective Instructors

B2 - 2025/2026 - Winter - Mustafa Gul & Maziar Jamshidi
B2 - 2024/2025 - Fall - Mustafa Gul
B2 - 2023/2024 - Fall - Mustafa Gul