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Book SynopsisEngineering for Business features teaching materials and case studies developed for senior undergraduate courses in engineering and business and graduate-level classes in Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Technology Management. This work surveys the more robust quantitative tools and techniques used to facilitate decision-making in business and uses case studies to illustrate their application. Where appropriate, the readers are provided with frameworks to enable application of the techniques covered and are directed to commercially available software developed to facilitate the deployment of these tools and techniques. Traditional industrial engineering and engineering management techniques related to Engineering Economy, Multi-Criteria Decision-making, Project Management, Management Science, and Facilities Planning are covered. These are complemented by a review of more topical areas, such as Applications Software for Business, Technology Commerciali
Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Engineering for Business—An Introduction Chapter 4 Financial & Economic Evaluation Chapter 5 Multi-Criteria Decision-making Chapter 6 Project Management Chapter 7 Applications Software for Business Chapter 8 Technology Commercialization Chapter 9 Management Science Techniques Chapter 10 Supply Chain Management Chapter 11 Facilities Planning Chapter 12 Contemporary Techniques Part 13 Index
