Book Review: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Systems Engineering Perspective (Kaczmarek Review)

Mark Kaczmarek reviews Dr. Howard Eisner’s new book, “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Systems Engineering Perspective” This latest book by Dr. Eisner spans the 5+ decades of his experience: 30 years in business as president or working for companies, and 24 years in academia at GWU – George Washington University. This is the 12th book he has written.

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Opportunity to engage with Idaho National Laboratory

Idaho National Laboratory’s Resilience Optimization Center (INL ROC), in collaboration with the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Society of Automation (ISA), is inviting anyone interested to “Brew with the Crew,” a virtual after-work event that takes place every third Thursday of the month, 4:00-5:00 MST via Microsoft Teams.

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2022-01-25: Months to Minutes - Command and Control (C2) of Control Systems (Scalco)

Ms. Aleksandra Scalco, CSEP, explains how disagreements exist among professionals about remediation of control system vulnerability, mainly due to discrepancies in engineering practice, paradigms, processes, and culture. Her presentation introduces a new model and methodology for measuring multi-concern assurance through statistical uncertainty analysis of Likert semantic differential scales.

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