Whether you are an engineer facing decisions in product design, an instructor or student engaged in course work, or a researcher exploring new options and opportunities, you can turn to ""Decision Making in Engineering Design"" for: clear examples of effective application of decision-based design; state-of-the-art theory and practice in decision-based design; thoughtful insights on handling preferences, handling uncertainty, distributed design, demand modeling, validation, and other issues; end-of-chapter exercise problems to facilitate learning; and section commentaries that frame chapter contents and highlight open areas of research and application.With this advanced text, you become current with research results on DBD developed since the inception of The Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design, a project funded by the National Science Foundation.