Title: What Every Engineer Should Know about Decision Making Under Uncertainty Author: John X, Wang, Wang X.; Wang ISBN: 0824708083 / 9780824708085 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 328 Publisher: Marcel Dekker Year: 2002 Availability: In Stock
Description
Contents
What Every Engineer Should Know About Decision Making Under Uncertainty presents new paradigms for engineering decision making....covers customer-focused engineering decision making....details spreadsheet simulation methods to help avoid bias and habitual behavior......discusses continuous quality improvement versus business reengineering processes....illustrates information value in decision making during uncertainty.....analyzes capital budgetting......discusses the accuracy of sample estimates...and presents practical case studies from various engineering disciplines and shows how to tailor the illustrated methods for different applications.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Engineering: Making Hard Decisions Chapter 2 : Engineering Judgment For Discrete Chapter 3 : Decision Analysis Chapter 4 : Correlation of Random Variables Chapter 5 : Performing Engineering Predictions Chapter 6 : Engineering Decision Variables Chapter 7 : Project Scheduling Chapter 8 : Process Control Chapter 9 : Engineering Decision Making
Appendix