To improve the well-being of present-day society, future generations, and the natural environment, students will learn to creatively apply recent advances in behavioral and cognitive science to infrastructure systems and processes. The course begins with an introduction to systems thinking and design thinking. Students will review the foundations of decision theory (i.e., expected utility theory) and strategies (i.e. multi-criteria decision making) then learn how actual decisions deviate from the predictions of these rational models (i.e. bounded rationality, cognitive barriers, heuristics). Students will investigate how stakeholders process and deal with complex risk and how perceptions, judgments, and decision environments influence behavior. Students will practice how to communicate risk and uncertainty across stakeholders. Decisions about infrastructure systems and processes are typically made by groups. So, students will be introduced to game theory, group decision making rules, and choice architecture to design incentives that influence the decisions of infrastructure stakeholders and users. Students will critically examine how infrastructure systems contribute to user behavior. Each week students are responsible for assigned readings from academic journals and book chapters. The course culminates in a final project. The final project will allow students to creatively evaluate a specific infrastructure system problem and apply a behavioral perspective to design a solution.