Text for a one-term course on Probability and Statistics intended primarily for civil engineering majors. Most often taught out of the Civil Engineering Department. Covers the key concepts and statistical techniques for assessing the reliability of structures and the risk factors in their design.

The book Systems analysis and design methods continues to react to changes and expected changes in the information technology domain including Year 2000 (Y2K) compatibility, client/server computing, the Internet, intranets, and extranets. Finally, there are exciting systems analysis and design challenges with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications (such as SAP), systems integration, and business process redesign.

Preliminary considerations: The selection of a Research Approach; Review of the Literature; The Use of Theory; Writing Strategies and Ethical Considerations; Designing research: The Introduction, The Purpose Statement, Research Questions and Hypotheses, Quantitative Methods, Quatitative Methods, Mixed Methods Procedures

This book advances a framework, a process and compositional approaches for designing a proposal or research in the human, health and social sciences. The ascendency of qualitative research, the emergence of mixed methods approaches and the growth of quantitative designs have created a need for this book's unique comparison of the three approaches to inquiry.