Decisions made in an engineering company were recorded and analysed to show how elementary techniques of decision-making can aid the planning and control of decisions in engineering design.
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This gap between practice and theory is seen in two ways:.
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papers on engineering advances and innovations rarely report how decisions were planned and controlled;.
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meetings on design methods are not well supported by engineers responsible for design in industry.
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For books on how engineering design should be planned and controlled see for instance:.
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