Statistics for Engineering Problem Solving (Pws Foundations in Engineering) - Hardcover

Vardeman, Stephen B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0780311183 ISBN 13: 9780780311183

Publisher: Inst of Electrical &, 1994

Synopsis

This innovative text uses real data and scenario examples and a chapter-length case study (Chapter 11) to teach students how apply statistical methods to the solution of engineering problems. Employing a practical, applied approach, the author encourages students to do statistics by carrying data collection and analysis projects all the way from problem formulation to preparation of professional technical reports. The authors goals in writing this text are to stress the engineering problem-solving implications of statistical references, and to foster development of scientific and statistical thought processes in the reader. Mathematical theory is not presented as an end in itself, but rather as a means to more effective engineering practice.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The past decade has been widespread recognition by educators and professionals that the methods and thought patterns of applied statistics are powerful tools for engineering problem solving. The purpose of this book is to present those tools in a way that both university engineering students and working engineers will find understandable and useful.

About the Author

Steve Vardeman is a Professor of Statistics and Industrial Engineering at Iowa
State University. He holds a 1975 Ph.D. in Statistics from Michigan State
University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from Iowa State. He is a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected Ordinary Member of
the International Statistical Institute, a Senior Member of the American
Society for Quality and is a member of both the American Society for
Engineering Education and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His book
Statistics for Engineering Problem Solving won the 1994 ASEE Meriam-Wiley
Distinguished Author Award for an outstanding new engineering textbook, he is
co-author of Statistical Quality Assurance Methods for Engineers, and the ISU
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recognized him for outstanding
teaching. He was Editor of Technometrics from 1993 to 1995 and both his
research and teaching interests revolve around the engineering applications of
statistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Inst of Electrical &
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0780311183
• ISBN 13: 9780780311183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 826