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Decision Based Design: Closure
9.1 Putting It All Together
We have covered many topics in this book directly and peripherally
related to decision making in engineering design. Engineering design has
seen a paradigm shift in recent times where the stakeholders—engineers,
business managers, customers, and even legislators—are all considered
decision makers in their own right. Each of them makes decisions affect-
ing his or her individual subdomain, as well as those of other stakehold-
ers. Making decisions in such a complex environment requires a formal
approach, and normative decision analysis therefore naturally becomes
relevant. The perspect ...