Date/Time: April 20,2023, 6-7:30 PM

Format: Zoom Meeting ID 604-353-3501

Title:  A Normative Model for Decision Making

Abstract:  Most decisions have two requirements: They should be “good”, and secondly when others are involved, they should be agreed to.  The normative decision model provides a decision tree with 8 critical factors that determine, not what a decision should be, but how the decision should be made.  This talk use a common, relevant scenario – whether or not to require a team to terminate remote work and return to the office – to walk through the model. The talk will end with a discussion on how the model generalizes and provides alternatives for anyone faced with the challenge of making a good decision.

Speaker:  Karl Arunski, Life Senior Member, IEEE TEMS VP of Education

Bio:  Karl Arunski is a retired systems engineer and director of engineering and mission assurance in the defense industry.  In parallel with his professional career, he developed and taught graduate-level systems engineering, management, and leadership courses at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a MS-EE degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He currently serves as the Vice President of Education for the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.

Registration: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/353808

Video of meeting: https://youtu.be/nT39_tS8g8g