The course teaches basic knowledge and application possibilities of optimizations for independent application using practical examples in technical systems. The focus is on application-related knowledge and application-related competences.  The acquired knowledge and competences are to be further developed independently within master's theses in the participating subject areas.

After successful completion of this course:

• you are able to formulate technical problems as optimization problems
• you are able to assign the resulting optimization problems to a problem class and to derive considerations for its solvability from it
• you are able to reformulate optimization problems so that they belong to a different class
• you know selected methods for the solution of optimization problems and you are familiar with the respective mathematical backgrounds
• you know to which problem classes the respective procedures are to be applied and which advantages/disadvantages result from it
• you are able to effectively use commercial and non-commercial solvers to solve optimization problems
• you can formulate technical problems as optimization problems