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5. Implications for Engineering Design Education and Research
Pages 44-46

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... Research to enhance existing theories or develop new ones tliat could be broadly applied is highly desirable, and the theories must be applicable in the real world, sphere design time and cost are as critical as product features. This increasing demand and limited supply c~l:~equate tools warrants research to improve the process of making design decisions.
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... differential equations, is required. Statistics, alc>~ig with linear algebra, numerical methods, and Lanced calculus, is "encouraged." Only industrial engineering undergraduates have a formal statistics ~quirement.-[ust one-fifth of the specialized program requirements give further emphasis to the importance of statistics, but none require statistics.
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... Interdisciplinary- soapstone courses that include legal, social, and economic issues, as well as team building skillet can be particularly useful teaching tools and should be included in this undertaking. Although the committee tried to reach a consensus and the entire committee did generally support most of the recommendations some menibers held dissenting views that they expressed as follows: It is not wise to interest more money in developing theoretical foundations for decision making in design, firstly' because, as the report indicates, the developments to date are fragmented and not in any way unified.
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