Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).

Decision Based Design: Introduction; Is Design a Decision?; Some Examples of Design Decisions; Decision Based Design and Product Development; Roadblocks to Engineers Thinking about Product Development; Role of Identifying Sub-Problems and Their Interfaces; ; Engineering Design; Engineering Design Towards a Product, System or a Service; What Drives Engineering Design?; The Arrow of Causality in Design; Various Aspects of Engineering Design; Decision Making and Decision Makers in Design; Engineering Examples; ; Decision Analysis with Multiple Attributes; Decision Making Under Uncertainty; Modeling Uncertainty; Incorporating Uncertainty in Design Decision Process; Multi-Attribute Decision Making; Engineering Examples; ; Reliability Engineering; Performance as a Function of Time; Reliability Engineering Concepts; Engineering Examples; ; Design Optimization; Modeling an Engineering System; Classification Of Optimization Problems; Optimization Methods; Engineering Examples; ; Simulation Methods in Design; Need for Simulating Engineering Systems; Common Simulation Methods; Applications of Simulation Based Methods; Engineering Examples; ; Product Development and Systems Engineering; What Is Product Development?; More Roadblocks to Engineers Thinking about Product Development; Creativity in Engineering Design; Customer Need Assessment; Understanding Logistics; Design for "X"; Engineering Examples; ; Demand Modeling; Considering Demand in Engineering Design; Various Demand Models; Engineering Examples; ; Decision Based Design: Closure; Putting it All Together; Future Direction of Decision Based Design.

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