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Sustainable Digital Cities

Course (UG/PG)

Undergraduate

Offering Unit/Department

Course Description

This course will equip students with core knowledge of appreciating what it takes to plan, design, build and sustain digital (‘smart’) cities that are innovative, inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. By the end of this course, students will be able to appreciate the following 4 areas: Urban Challenges, Urban Sustainability, Design of ‘Smart’ Digital Cities and Commercialisation of selected digital city projects. There will be an introduction to how software can be used to provide solutions for smart city challenges.

Course Learning Outcomes

Understand the key issues and challenges of living in big cities (urbanisation).

Explain how city leaders and planners can create sustainable digital cities.

Understand and know how to deploy smart sensors for electronic data collection

Appreciate the processes and challenges to commercialise digital city solutions

Discipline-Specific Competencies

Emerging Technology Synthesis, Embedded Systems Integration, Business Innovation, Project Management, Problem-solving & analysis

SMU Graduate Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Knowledge, Multidisciplinary Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Critical thinking & problem solving, Communication, Understanding of sustainability issues, Self-directed learning

Grading Basis

GRD - Graded