Class Meeting Times: Tuesday, Thursday 2:00 - 3:15.
Room: 2222 J.M. Patterson (JMP)
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 12:30 - 2:00, and by appointment.
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Instructor:
Professor Jeffrey W. Herrmann
Office: 0151B Martin Hall
Phone: 301-405-5433
email: jwh2@umd.edu
Web page:
http://www.isr.umd.edu/~jwh2/jwh2.html.
The objective of this course is for students to learn the key topics in engineering decision making and risk management so that they can improve decision making and reduce risk in their engineering activities and organizations.
Course Learning Objectives. At the completion of this course, students will be able to do the following:
In the course of engineering design, project management, and other functions, engineers have to make decisions, almost always under time and budget constraints. Managing risk requires making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This course will cover material on individual decision making, group decision making, and organizations of decision-makers. The course will present techniques for making better decisions, for understanding how decisions are related to each other, and for managing risk.
Course Outline
Ethical behavior is important to society, and it is the right thing to do. We are all expected to behave ethically.
Academic integrity is an important value for our community. Because of this, students are expected to have high standards for behavior in this course. All homework assignments must be done individually; students must do their own work on assignments and examinations. All work must be original; if information from other sources is used, those sources must be acknowledged appropriately. If you have any questions about what is acceptable, please ask the instructor.
The University of Maryland, College Park has a nationally recognized Code of Academic Integrity. This Code sets standards for academic integrity at Maryland for all undergraduate and graduate students. Every student is responsible for upholding these standards for this course and should be aware of the consequences of cheating, fabrication, facilitation, and plagiarism. For more information, see the website for the Office of Student Conduct.
To further exhibit your commitment to academic integrity, remember to sign the Honor Pledge on all examinations and assignments: I pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this assessment.
Student grades will be based upon two assignments and a series of examinations (including the final exam) that provide the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of the 40 course learning outcomes. For most of the learning outcomes (skills), students will have multiple opportunities to demonstrate mastery of those skills.
There are 40 learning outcomes, and the final grade is based on the number of learning outcomes that have been mastered. Each learning outcome is worth one point. Each letter grade (with a plus or minus) requires the following number of points.