University of Iowa

57:022 Principles of Design II
Spring Semester 2002

Textbook

No textbook is required. A set of class notes will be available from Zephyr Copy Center (or downloaded as pdf files from the web), and several reference materials (see attached list) are in Engineering Library.

References
 

• Benjamin and Cornell, Probability, Statistics, and Decision-Making for Civil Engineers, McGraw-Hill, 1970. (ENGINEERING Library TA340 .B45)
• Bertsekas, D. P. and J. N. Tsitsiklis, Introduction to Probability. Athena Scientific, 2002
  • Chapter 1: Sample Space and Probability
  • Chapter 2: Discrete Random Variables
  • Chapter 3: General Random Variables
  • Chapter 4: Further Topics on Random Variables and Expectations
  • Chapter 5: The Bernoulli and Poisson Processes
  • Chapter 6: Markov Chains
  • Chapter 7: Limit Theorems
• Billington, Roy and Allan, Ronald, Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems(2nd edition), Plenum Press, 1992. (ENGINEERING Library TA169 .B54)
• Elsayed, E. A., Reliability Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1996. (Includes Relest & Accelife software.) (ENGINEERING Library TA169 .E52)
• Siddall, James N., Probabilistic Engineering Design: Principles and Applications, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1983. (ENGINEERING Library TA174 .S5734)
• Winston, Wayne, Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, 3rd edition, PWS-Kent Publishing. Reference chapters:
  • 8.4 (PERT),
  • 11.4-7 (Probability review)
  • 22 (Queueing theory),
  • 23 (Simulation),
  • 24.6-8 (Regression)

    Note: this is the text used in 56:171 Operations Research

Tables of Gamma Function

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