ECE/ENGR 531 Engineering Risk Analysis

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Other web pages and links

• Announcements (sorted by date)
• Project Management Institute website
• Article titled The 1% Panic (Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2008) about the current financial crisis.
• Another article about the current financial crisis, titled Risk Mismanagement (The new York Times, January 2, 2009).
• Article titled Perfect Models, Imperfect World (BusinessWeek, January 12, 2009) about the use of models.
• Another article about the use of models, titled In Plato's cave (The Economist, January 22, 2009).
• Article titled How Positive Thinking Wrecked the Economy (AlterNet, Posted September 26, 2008; Printed February 16, 2009).
• This article (Wired Magazine, March 2009) has an interesting interview with Dan diBartolomeo that is relevant to using rigorous analytical methods in risk management.
• Article on IDEO's credo, Fail early and often to succeed sooner (Management Today, 1 August 2005).

Professor Edwin Chong,