{"id":3690,"date":"2015-06-22T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2015-06-22T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:13:22","slug":"all-systems-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2015\/06\/all-systems-go\/","title":{"rendered":"All Systems Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_200804189_FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3691\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_200804189_FOR-WEB.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_200804189_FOR WEB\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_200804189_FOR-WEB.jpg 600w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_200804189_FOR-WEB-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>How would Los Angeles react to the release of a toxic airborne agent?<\/strong> How does an epidemic spread across a town, a country, or the world? What did the ancient Anasazi civilization look like, and why did it disappear? In Systems Science for a Dynamic World, a new course taught by Joshua Epstein and Erez Hatna through the Johns Hopkins Systems Institute, undergraduates are learning how to build and interpret mathematical models that help answer these questions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Los Angeles Plume Hybrid Model\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZZJCIGtVkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to prepare students to apply a systems perspective to any field. Beyond learning to build models, students will be able to experiment with them, understand and critique them, explain their results, and use them in almost any discipline,\u201d says Epstein, a professor in Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics who has a joint appointment in the School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The course couples instruction on building mathematical and computational models in the NetLogo modeling environment with a multidisciplinary overview of subjects explored through models\u2014including topics as disparate as the spread of infectious diseases, the dynamics of revolution and civil violence, ethnic segregation, land use change, and urban disaster preparedness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Global Scale Agent Model (GSAM)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4ofZafC69U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Epstein and Hatna, an assistant professor at the School of Medicine\u2019s Center for Advanced Modeling, show students what models in different subject areas have in common and how these models can be used to predict outcomes, explain behavior, and guide policy.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell Yaron \u201915, a mechanical engineering major, says that learning to model human behavior will help him be a more effective engineer. \u201cWhen I design a product for a user, it\u2019s hard to know how the product and the user will interact. With what I\u2019ve learned in this class, I can build a model to predict the interaction and use it to create a better design.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would Los Angeles react to the release of a toxic airborne agent? How does an epidemic spread across a town, a country, or the world? What did the ancient Anasazi civilization look like, and why did it disappear? 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