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Statistics in Engineering Problem Solving

Statistics plays an important role in the engineering problem-solving process by helping engineers account for variability in data, design experiments to collect data, and develop both empirical and mechanistic models. The engineering method involves clearly defining a problem, identifying factors that may influence solutions, proposing a model, testing the model through experimentation, refining the model based on data, and using the model to solve the problem and confirm the solution works. Statistics helps engineers at multiple steps of this process through experimental design, data collection and analysis techniques.

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Statistics in Engineering Problem Solving

Statistics plays an important role in the engineering problem-solving process by helping engineers account for variability in data, design experiments to collect data, and develop both empirical and mechanistic models. The engineering method involves clearly defining a problem, identifying factors that may influence solutions, proposing a model, testing the model through experimentation, refining the model based on data, and using the model to solve the problem and confirm the solution works. Statistics helps engineers at multiple steps of this process through experimental design, data collection and analysis techniques.

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THE ROLE OF STATISTICS IN ENGINEERING

Learning objectives:
1. Identify the role that statistics can play in the engineering problem-solving
process.
2. Discuss how variability affects the data collected and used for making
engineering decisions.
3. Explain the difference between enumerative and analytical studies.
4. Discuss the different methods that engineers use to collect data.
5. Identify the advantage that designed experiments have in comparison to
other methods of collecting engineering data.
6. Explain the difference between mechanistic and empirical models.
7. Discuss how probability and probability models are used in engineering
and science.

Engineering Method and Statistical Thinking


Engineer is a person who solves problems for interest to society by the efficient
application of scientific principles. The engineering, or scientific, method is the approach to
formulating and solving problems. The following steps in engineering method:

1. Develop a clear and concise description of the problem.


2. Identify, at least tentatively, the important factor that affect the problem or that may play
a role in its solution.
3. Propose a model for the problem, using scientific or engineering knowledge of the
phenomenon being studied. State any limitations or assumptions of the model.
4. Conduct appropriate experiments and collect data to test or validate the tentative model
or conclusion from steps 1 and 2.
5. Refine the model on the basis of the observed data.
6. Manipulate the model to assist in developing a solution to the problem.
7. Conduct an appropriate experiment to confirm that the proposed solution to the problem
is both effective and efficient.
8. Draw conclusion or make recommendation based on the problem solution.
T h e f i g u r e s h
the factors that may influence the solution, a model of the phenomenon, and experimentation to
verify the adequacy of the model and the proposed solution to the problem. Steps two to four
enclosed in the box, indicating that several cycles or iterations of these steps may be required to
obtain the final solution. Engineers must know how to efficiently plan experiments, collect data,
analyse and interpret the data, and understand how the observed data relate to the model they
have proposed for the problem under study.
The field of statistics deals with the collection, presentation, analysis, and use of data to
make decisions, solve problems, and design products and process. Statistics is the science of data
because many aspects of engineering practice involve working with data that statistics is just as
important to engineering sciences.

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