<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not a good time for So Mean members, but I figured I'd pass it along nevertheless.<div>-Brice<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">David Woods <<a href="mailto:ddwoods@gmail.com">ddwoods@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 18, 2010 11:42:59 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:complexity@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">complexity@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>intro to complexity class in spring</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:ddwoods@gmail.com">ddwoods@gmail.com</a><br></span></div><br><div>Please let students know we are testing an intro to complexity class<br>in the spring quarter. I am adapting my Systems Thinking course to<br>test how we may develop an introduction to complexity class. even<br>though it is listed under engineering it is a course for all colleges<br>and depts (in the future we will develop a cross-listed course)<br><br>Systems Thinking in Eng/Design<br>ISE 694 - 0040 Group Studies in Industrial Engineering<br>#27562<br>Fr 9:30AM - 12:18PM<br>Baker Systems 0188<br>David D Woods<br>3/29/2010 - 6/4/2010<br>Workshop format<br><br>Provides a comprehensive set of adaptive systems concepts, including<br>systems of systems approaches, and how these are used to model,<br>manage, design, and evaluate complexity in natural, social, and<br>engineered systems.<br><br>Text: Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical<br>Remaking of Economics (paperback), Eric Beinhocker, 2007. plus<br>readings including, Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour, 2009.<br><br>If you have any trouble I will sign the necessary forms<br><br><br><br>David Woods, Professor<br>Human Systems Integration<br><br>Releasing the Adaptive Power of Human Systems<br><br>Department of Integrated Systems Engineering<br>The Ohio State University<br><a href="mailto:woods.2@osu.edu">woods.2@osu.edu</a><br>http://csel.eng.ohio-state.edu/woods/<br>614-946-0123<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>