Abstract: The past two decades have seen a significant shift in perspective on engineering design, from the view that design is a matter of problem solving to the view that it is decision making. This shift was encouraged by the ...

Abstract: Tolerancing began with the notion of limits imposed on the dimensions of realized parts both to maintain functional geometric dimensionality and to enable cost-effective part fabrication and inspection. Increasingly, ...

Abstract: System design is commonly thought of as a process of maximizing a design objective subject to constraints, among which are the system requirements. Given system-level requirements, a convenient management approach is to ...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is not to present new results; rather, it is to show that the current approach to model validation is not consistent with the accepted mathematics of probability theory. Specifically, we argue ...

Abstract: We write to address comments made in Closure on the Discussion of “Models, Uncertainty, and the Sandia V&V Challenge Problem” by Oberkampf and Balch. We feel that the title of these comments is unfortunate because it ...