Value Rational Engineering

Shuichi Fukuda is Advisor to the System Design and Management Research Institute of Keio University, Japan and Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology and Tokyo Metropolitan University. He was a Research Associate at University of Tokyo, Associate Professor at Osaka University, Japan, Professor, Dean of Engineering and Dean of Library and Information Systems, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Japan, and Director of Government, Industry and University Collaboration Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. He was a Consulting Professor, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University, a Visiting Professor at West Virginia University, Cranfield University, UK, Osaka University, Japan, The Open University, Japan, and a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Tokyo, Japan. He is the editor of many engineering books, in addition to his own numerous research publications. He served as President of ISPE (International Society for Productivity Enhancement), Vice President of IEEE Reliability Society, Deputy Group Leader of Systems and Design, ASME, and Division Chair of Computers and Information Engineering, ASME. He is a Member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, Honorary Member of JSME, Glory Member of REAJ, and a Fellow of ASME, IEICE, and ISPE.

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Big Shift in Engineering.- Value and Rationality: Traditional Engineering Definition.- Increasing Difficulty of Recognizing Product Quality Improvement.- Value and Rationality: Definitions in Other Fields.- Design--Another Form of Decision Making.- Importance of "Self".- Increasing Importance of Process Value.- Reliability to Trust.- Individual Products to Team Products--Individual Play to Team Play.- Strategy: Yesterday and Today.- Modularization: Product-Based to Process-Focused.- Sectors of the Economy.- Sharing Society.- The Connected Society.- New Horizons Are Emerging.- References.- Author's Biography.