Decision Making in Engineering Design

By Kemper E. Lewis, Wei Chen, and Linda C. Schmidt

A free solutions manual in PDF format is now available for professors who have adopted this book for their courses. Please contact Stefanchikm@asme.org to request a copy.

Whether you are an engineer facing decisions in product design, an instructor or student engaged in course work, or a researcher exploring new options and opportunities, you can turn to Decision Making in Engineering Design for:

—Foundations and fundamentals of making decisions in product design;

—Clear examples of effective application of Decision-Based Design;

—State-of-the-art theory and practice in Decision-Based Design;

—Thoughtful insights on validation, uncertainty, preferences, distributed design, demand modeling, and other issues;

—End-of-chapter exercise problems to facilitate learning.

With this advanced text, you become current with research results on DBD developed since the inception of The Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design, a project funded by the National Science Foundation.