Note: The official name for the course is “Convex optimization for electrical engineering”. However, the course is suitable for any student within SEAS (or beyond) provided you satisfy the math ...

Gone are the days of just blueprints, prototypes and calculations, as engineering now revolves around efficiency, speed and precision in a world where technology is rapidly changing. The world of ...

Growing data center power demands are driving server end-equipment manufacturers to reach higher power-conversion efficiencies in order to reduce the thermal footprint of their systems. The transition ...

PRIMA is a package for solving general nonlinear optimization problems without using derivatives. It provides the reference implementation for Powell's renowned derivative-free optimization methods, i ...

Break even and profitability analysis is a classical and widely used topic in business analysis. Break-Even Point or point of equilibrium is the point of sales volume making neither a profit nor a ...

To fully tap the abilities of renewables in reactive power optimization, this paper develops a detailed model for the power regulation capabilities of wind turbines and photovoltaic units and studies ...

Cart-pole swing-up: Find the force profile to apply to the cart to swing-up the pendulum that freely hanges from it. Compute the gait (joint angles, rates, and torques) for a walking robot that ...