Decision engineering

Engineers have to deal with increasing responsibilities as technology is each day more involved in our daily lives. Hence, it is important that engineers are able to make the correct decisions on which is the right way to act. Engineers can base themselves in the several norms and rules that are outlined by their professional organizations. However, there is a finite amount of things that can be stated as rules. For this reason, and as the Good Engineer reading proposes, it is important that…

inspiration and motivation to approach a career in electronics. The decision of pursuing a career in electronics was taken by Jack during his high school years, when a strong ice storm cut the power and phone service of most Western Kansas and the only way of communicating was through radios. After graduating from high school,Jack continued his higher education in the University of Illinois, where he majored in Electrical Engineering and also took several different subjects of his interest. One…

for me as a child, and I spent years chasing what I thought was right for me only to find out it wasn’t what I was passionate about. You see, I served in the military for nine years working as a data analyst before I made the decision to get out and pursue an engineering career. During that ninth year, I started questioning whether I had chosen the right profession. I enjoyed the people I worked with, the places I got to visit, and knowing that I was making a difference, but I wasn’t happy…

They developed a theory of a firm which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. They build on the approach of Antras and Helpman, who were the first to study global sourcing decisions under incomplete contracts. The model predicts that firms differ in the complexity of their production processes, both within and across industries. Also, firms may outsource some of their suppliers but vertically integrate others. Specifically from…

The term ethical engineering is problematic and faced by many professional engineers today. Questions, such as, “What should I do?”, “Is this morally correct?”, “Am I going to be responsible for these actions?”, etc. arise in many occasions. Volkswagen engineer, James Liang, was faced with these questions when he developed a device to “cheat” the national United States emissions tests, therefore making it seem that the Volkswagen was reputable, and it could be noted as a “clean diesel” vehicle…

shorter by at least 6 months, however the production costs may seem higher. It is therefore reasonable to work with this timeline, since it is reasonably dependant on the budget and the type of commercial boat that is required by the client. This decision influenced the success of the company positively. Even though there were challenges such as client complaining over cut corners and a less complex commercial boat, such complaints had been reduced by a quite larger margin since the commercial…

Communication Before entering this course, I was quite unsure as to what concentration of undergraduate studies to focus on. Specifically, it was to either choose between civil and environmental engineering major of studies. I was at a crossroads. Yet, I wanted to evaluate the career path more in depth to make a decision that will correlate to my values and lifestyle objectives. I began to experience some anxiety about the major courses and confusion as to which career provided the most…

a wide variety of decision making aids. One such tool, classified as decisions support systems (DSS) is a “specific class of computerized information system that supports business and organizational decision-making activities” (Marin, 2008, p. 513). DSS has become a multifaceted term that belongs to an enormous environment with multidisciplinary foundations, including database research, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, simulation methods, software engineering and…

Civil engineering is the professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, and construction, and built something like rods, bridges, dam and building. It’s also called one of the oldest engineering disciplines. This discipline also gives an opportunity to educator to use knowledge of applied mathematics s and sciences in order to solve the complicate problems in the real world. Three years ago, my parent decided to build a property, so we need to hire some civil engineers to…

opportunity to chase my dream of becoming a physician. Being inclined to study medicine was not something I envisioned at a younger age or during my undergraduate career. Initially, my goal coming out of high school was to pursue a career in chemical engineering to work in the oil and gas industry. This career path, at the time, seemed like a perfect…