Quality in design and execution of engineering practice / Lex A. van Gunsteren ; in collaboration with Jonathan Barzilai, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and Rudd Binnekamp, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Classification of seven categories of quality -- 3. A typology of rules and regulations -- An opinion poll on quality rules and regulations -- A typology of rules and regulations -- Usefulness of rules and regulations -- 4. Quality and the business unit's identity -- License Giver -- License Taker -- Jobber -- Consultant -- 5. Engineering design quality -- What is a good engineering design? -- The dynamic nature of engineering design -- Wing nozzle -- Contra-rotating propeller design -- The multi-purpose pitfall -- Mathematical modelling in engineering design -- 6. Measuring fitness for purpose: preference measurement -- Tetra software for multi-criteria decision-making -- Example: Buying a house -- An application of preference measurement in the construction industry -- 7. Use of the quality classification in the construction industry -- Prerequisite for the implementation of any new concept: the product champion -- The use of the quality circles -- Trade-offs between quality, costs, and schedule -- 8. Quality in architecture -- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam -- The new office for the broadcasting organization VPRO -- The Øresund Link -- 9. The essence -- Appendices I Strategic classification of business units -- Exploitation of R & D output: Four typical cases -- Classification of strategy -- The multi-business corporation -- Discussion of four typical cases.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (IOS Press, viewed Oct. 3, 2013).

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