Engineering design involves information acquisition decisions such as selecting designs in
the design space for testing, selecting information sources, and deciding when to stop …

Many decisions within engineering systems design are typically made by humans. These
decisions significantly affect the design outcomes and the resources used within design …

An important type of process-level decisions in design is information acquisition decisions
which includes deciding whether to acquire information about a concept, which concepts to …

Exploration of design spaces is an important step in decision-based design. In consumer
product development, precise design specifications are not known at the beginning of the …

The primary motivation in this paper is to understand decision-making in design under
competition from both prescriptive and descriptive perspectives. Engineering design is often …

Factors such as a student's knowledge of the design problem and their deviation from a
design process impact the achievement of their design problem objective. Typically, an …

This paper develops and explores the interface between two related concepts in design
decision making. First, design decision making is a process of simultaneously constructing …

In an emerging paradigm, design is viewed as a sequential decision process (SDP) in which
mathematical models of increasing fidelity are used in a sequence to systematically contract …

The decision sciences have emerged over the past 300 years with contributions from many
highly recognized individuals. Yet, by and large, these results have not been incorporated …

Design is a sequential decision process that increases the detail of modeling and analysis
while simultaneously decreasing the space of alternatives considered. In a decision …