Introduction to CDEW - ZEIT7403


	Faculty: UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy)
	School: School of Engineering & Information Technology @ ADFA
	Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
	Campus: University College Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Introduction to Concept Development, Experimentation and Wargaming (CDEW) prepares students to support the decision making process in Defence. They will be able to propose options and be able to provide useful and insightful input to senior decision makers. This course is focussed on Ackoff problems. Problems are characterised by incomplete knowledge of the issues and the system, and are thus not amenable to exact solution via mathematical optimisation. Instead, formulation of the issues and any objective functions must be agreed by the stakeholders and the analysts. This course is similar to ZEIT8403 but is assessed differently.