1 Table of Contents: “...Exercises2 Statistical background for engineering design; 2.1 Expectation; 2.2 Statistical...”

2 Table of Contents: “... -- Preliminaries on renewal theory; 1.3 -- Preliminaries on semi-Markov processes with arbitrary phase space...”

3 Table of Contents: “...: A Real-World Application; 2.1 Introduction and Learning Objectives; 2.2 Background and Theory; Key...”

4 Table of Contents: “... Flexibility at Front-End Strategizing; 2.2 -- Real Options: Theory and Practice; 2.3 -- Final Considerations...”

5 Table of Contents: “... materials; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Phenomenological failure theories; 2.3 Mechanisms-based failure analysis...”

6 Table of Contents: “... to Gas-Liquid Interfaces; 2.1 The Reduction in Gibbs Free Energy upon Adsorption; 2.2 Equilibrium between...”

7 Table of Contents: “... An introduction to modern software quality assurance; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Requirement Conformance Versus...”