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Short Course Spotlight: System Dynamics
October 6, 2018 @ 6:00 am - October 8, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
Instructor: Dr. Todd BenDor
Dates: Monday, November 6 & Thursday, November 8
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Davis Library Room 3010, UNC Chapel Hill Campus
Join our new director Dr. Todd BenDor of Department of City and Regional Planning to learn more about the systems that influence our everyday lives and the tools necessary to navigate them in our new two-part System Dynamics short course next week!
In this course, you will learn how to frame problems and understand systems in terms of interconnected networks of cause and effect. Together, we will explore why policy interventions work, fail, or completely backfire. We will examine why there is no such thing as a side-effect, and why systems often behave in unexpected and non-intuitive ways. You will learn how to forecast these behaviors and analyze their implications for important policy problems, such as energy and natural resource use, health, community equity, traffic congestion, and economic growth and competitiveness. You will come away from this course with the conceptual and analytical tools to represent complex problems in simple, yet holistic ways, while seeing the big picture in everything you do. This course will introduce systems thinking and system dynamics computer simulation modeling.
Instructor Bio:
Todd BenDor is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching focus on developing ways to better understand and prevent impacts from urban growth on sensitive environmental systems. Much of his recent research has studied the social, economic, and ecological consequences of ecosystem service markets and ecological restoration regulations. He has also developed computer models to assess the opportunities and consequences of urban growth, as well as promote environmental conflict resolution. Professor BenDor is a faculty member in UNC’s Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology. He holds a B.S. from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. from Washington State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
For more information and registration, please visit our website. The registration deadline is November 2, 2018.