文档介绍:WHAT EVERY
ENGINEER SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT
DECISION
MAKING UNDER
UNCERTAINTY
John X. Wang
Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Certified Reliability Engineer
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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WHAT EVERY ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW
A Series
Founding Editor
William H. Middendorf
Department of Electrical puter Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
1. What Every Engineer Should Know About Patents, William G. Konold,
Bruce Tittel, Donald F. Frei, and David S. Stallard
2. What Every Engineer Should Know About Product Liability, James F.
Thorpe and William H. Middendorf
3. What Every Engineer Should Know About puters: Hard-
ware/Software Design, A Step-by-Step Example, William S. t and
Carl F. Evert, Jr.
4. What Every Engineer Should Know About Economic Decision Analysis,
Dean S. Shupe
5. What Ever