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Books
Knowledge about the design process is increasing rapidly. A goal in writing the fourth edition was to incorporate this knowledge into a unified structure - one of the strong points of the first three editions. Throughout the new edition, topics have been updated and integrated with other best practices in the book. This book conveys the "flavor" of design, addressing both traditional engineering topics as well as real-world issues like creative thinking, synthesis of ideas, visualization, teamwork, sense of customer needs and product success factors, and the financial aspects of design alternatives, in a practical and motivating manner. Purchase detailsCombining more than ten years of study of decision support, cognitive psychology, product development, business management and Artificial Intelligence concepts, Making Robust Decisions gives you the tools you need to produce optimal decisions-those that make good use of available information, achieve buy-in from all parties, and yield the best possible results. Packed with practical examples and case studies, Making Robust Decisions strikes a middle ground between self-help books that, while interesting in theory, may not help with real-world problems and highly technical analysis texts. It provides some methods you can implement right away and others that you and your organization can grow into. It is readable, useful, and readily applicable to a wide variety of decision-making problems. The methods can help with such varied issues as selecting a concept, managing a portfolio, choosing a vendor, evaluating a proposal, selecting from architecture options, choosing a design, and determining whether to make or buy an item Selected Papers"The Ideal Engineering Design Support System", written for AutoDesk 2000. "What to do Next: Letting
the Problem Status Determine the Course
of Action@,
Research in Engineering Design, 1997 (9), pp 214-227.
Shortened version in Volume 2 of the proceedings of the International
Conference on Engineering Design, ICED97, Tampere, Finland, Aug 1997, pp
93-99. "A Taxonomy for Engineering Decision Support
Systems", Artificial
Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacture, AI EDAM, #9, 1995, pp
427-438. "Recognize Features from Freehand Sketches@,
Computers in Engineering, Vol 1, 1994, pp 67-78. "A Data Representation for Collaborative Mechanical
Design," Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1992, pp.
233-242. "The Evolution of Commitments in the Design of a
Component," Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 144, March 1992, pp.
1-7. "A Taxonomy for the Mechanical Design Process," Research in
Engineering Design, Vol. 3, 1992, pp. 179-189. "Fundamental Processes of Mechanical Designers Based on
Empirical Data," Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1991,
pp. 113-126. "The Information Requests of Mechanical Design
Engineers," Design Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 42-50. "The Design Capture System:
Capturing Back-of-the-Envelope Sketches," Journal of Engineering
Design, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1990, pp. 339-353. "The Importance of Drawing in the Mechanical
Design Process," Computers and Graphics, Special Issue on Features
and Geometric Reasoning, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1990, pp. 263-274. "A Model of the Mechanical Design
Process Based on Empirical Data," Academic Press, Artificial
Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, 2(1), 1988, pp. 33-52. |
