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**PLACEHOLDER** - This is one of Phil Sisson's ideas. Having been a math major 20 years ago, published on article on the Simplex Method, taken EMSE 271 (B), PAD 201, EMSE 280 and now EMSE 271 a second time in preparing for my DQE, I believe that a statistics course aimed at the needs of Engineering (and perhaps other) managers would be useful.

I envision the course as review for OLDER students (like me - I am 63) whose education is dated. It might serve as (optional) pre-requesite for EMSE 271 for people aiming at an Engineering Mangement degree as opposed to a System Enginneering degree. It would be nice if it could substitute for one the three other DQE courses. There would, of course, be some overlap with EMSE 271, but I have a number of ideas where material could also be drawn from EMSE 280, etc. that would be very useful to Engineering Managers and for which, I think, the DQE questions would be different. This class, would, of course be concept versus math heavy. Design of Experiences - Simplified (from a suggestion background reading for EMSE 271 by Dr. Mazzuchi) and ___ in Dr. Ryan's EMSE 216 class, or books like them, might be the course reference books.

As I am preparing a DQE study wiki for EMSE 271, I am finding that I am pointing to a lot of pages we created for out ESME 280, Oral Exam review. I'm thinking about putting common concepts in this wiki and pointing both here for more information. Common topics would be identified.

I'd like to see a [|mind map] that ties things together, could be navigate and of course, a direct link to terms via the search feature. Perhaps the color scale for this mind map could be keyed from a manager's usefulness perspective.