Engineering Decision Making and Risk Management is a textbook for a course on decision making and risk management.
It is designed
for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional engineers. It will be published by John Wiley & Sons and is scheduled to appear in Spring 2015.
The text covers decision analysis techniques to improve
decision-making, with applications in engineering design and engineering
management, the analysis of decision-making processes, risk management
processes, and understanding and improving decision-making systems.
This textbook covers important topics on decision making, presents tools
for helping engineers make better decisions, and provides examples to
illustrate the concepts and techniques. Students and engineers who study
this material and apply these concepts and techniques should become
better decision-makers.
This text discusses three perspectives on decision making: (1) the
problem-solving perspective, (2) the decision-making process
perspective, and (3) the decision-making system perspective.
Techniques for modeling and managing risk are included throughout the
text where appropriate within this framework.
