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

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

Decision making is a central activity in the design of an engineered system and has a
significant impact on project outcomes. Although much research exists on engineering …

Solving any design problem involves planning and strategizing, where intermediate
processes are identified and then sequenced. This is an abstract skill that designers learn …

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 …

The cognitive challenges in the design of complex engineered systems include the scale
and scope of decision problems, nonlinearity of the trade space, subjectivity of the problem …

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 …

The basic premise of this dissertation was that a link existed between the question-asking
behavior of engineers and design performance in industry. The work explores several …

Research on decision making in engineering design has focused primarily on how to make
decisions using normative models given certain information. However, there exists a …

During the early stage design of large-scale engineering systems, design teams are
challenged to balance a complex set of considerations. The established structured …