What Every Engineer Should Know About Risk Engineering and Management

Explains how to assess and handle technical risk, schedule risk, and cost risk, enabling engineering professionals to anticipate failures regardless of system complexity. Introduces the concept of risk engineering for controlling technical risk through identification, analysis, design, and process management, and reveals strategies for identifying flaws in engineering designs, estimating risk, and avoiding wasting scarce resources.

John X. Wang is Six-Sigma Quality Black Belt with GE Transportation Systems, General Electric Company, Erie, Pennsylvania. Dr. Wang is a Certified Reliability Engineer under the American Society for Quality, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Society for Mechanical Engineers. He received the B.A. (1985) and M.S. (1987) degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree (1995) from the University of Maryland at College Park. Marvin L. Roush is Professor of Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Roush is a member of the American Society for Quality and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Reliability Society. He received the B.S. degree (1956) from Ottawa University, Kansas, and the Ph.D. degree (1964) from the University of Maryland at College Park.