WORKSHOP: Decision Analysis in Engineering; Irvine, California, October 2001

这项资助为一个将向工程设计学院介绍决策理论的研讨会提供支持。研讨会的目标是让工程学院的教师熟悉决策理论的数学，为他们奠定正确地将决策理论应用于工程设计和其他工程决策过程所必需的数学基础，并提供一个可导出的研讨会版本，使研讨会能够产生更广泛的影响，而不仅仅是为可以参加的教师。研讨会将以导师制的方式进行，邀请数学、经济学和决策科学领域的专家，并为与会教师和专家之间的互动提供充足的时间。课程涵盖的主题包括不确定性下的决策制定、决策程序、博弈论、概率论以及适用于工程设计的工程微观经济学要素。预计这次研讨会的结果将是提高对决策理论原理及其在工程中的应用的认识。这可能会影响整个工程教育和实践，并最终导致所有工程领域的决策改进。

This grant provides support for a workshop that will introduce decision theory to engineering design faculty. The goals of the workshop are to acquaint engineering faculty with the mathematics of decision theory, to ground them in the mathematics necessary to correctly apply decision theory to engineering design and other decision making processes in engineering, and to provide an exportable version of the workshop that will enable the workshop to have a broader impact than just for the faculty who can attend. The workshop will be conducted in a tutorial fashion, with invited experts representing mathematics, economics and the decision sciences, and will provide ample time for interaction between the attending faculty and the experts. Topics that will be covered include decision making under uncertainty, decision procedures, game theory, probability theory and elements of engineering microeconomics appropriate to engineering design.It is expected that the outcome of this workshop will be a heightened awareness of the principles of decision theory and its applications to engineering. This will likely affect the entirety of engineering education and practice, and will ultimately result in improved decision making across all engineering fields.