December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
33h 14m
English
Engineering has been described as “the strategy for causing the best change in a poorly understood or uncertain situation within the available resources” [1]. The realm of ethics and professionalism entails very real, poorly understood problems that are as challenging as any technical problems an engineer will face. This chapter presents heuristics, objective functions (i.e., ways of defining what is best), and constraint identification strategies that are especially useful in solving such problems.
As described in Chapter 11, all heuristics are, in the final analysis, fallible and incapable of justification. They are merely plausible aids or directions toward the solution of a problem [1]. Especially ...
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