QuantitativeQuantitative MethodsMethods forfor DDecisionecision-
                                     Making Under Uncertainty 
                                                  Sankaran Mahadevan
                                            Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
                Email:Email:                   sankaran.mahadevan@vanderbilt.edusankaran.mahadevan@vanderbilt.edu
                Website:                       www.reliability-studies.vanderbilt.edu
               Vanderbilt University                                                                reliability-studies.vanderbilt.edu
             Reliability and Risk Engineering, Analysis, and Management
         NSFNSF--IGERTIGERT GraduateGraduate ProgramProgram atat VVaanderbiltnderbilt
        EducationalEducational andand ResearchResearch ThemesThemes
        y  Multidisciplinary integration               Large                     Devices, 
        y  Large, complex systems                     Systems                  Components
        y  Modeling and simulation                                   ModelModel
        y  Economic, legal, regulatory,                             Integration
           and social perspectives
        Cross-cuttinggg methodologies                             UncertaintyUncertainty 
        y   Uncertainty quantification, propagation                 & Risk
        y   Risk quantification                                    Methods
        y   Decision-making under uncertainty
         Participants
         • 42 graduate students (34 Ph.D., 8 M.S.) 
         • 30 professors Æ Engineering, Math, Economics, Business, Psychology, 
           Medicine
         • Summer researchers (undergraduates, high school teachers)
         Vanderbilt University                                                                reliability-studies.vanderbilt.edu
                    Reliability and Risk Engineering, Analysis, and Management
                             Multipple Resources at Vanderbilt
                                                                                Structural/Mechanical
                                                                                  Systems Reliability
                         CRESP --Multi-university                                    (S(S. MMahhaddevan))                     Institute for Space and
                             Nuclear Waste Risk                                                                                 Defense Electronics
                         Assessment Consortium                                                                                       (R. Schrimpf)
                                    (D. Kosson)
               ACCREACCRE HighHigh PerformancePerformance                 Multidisciplinary Doctoral                                        Institute for Software
                    Computing Network                                    Program in Reliability/Risk                                         IntegratedIntegrated SySystemsstems
                                                                        Engineering & Management                                                    (G. Karsai)
                                 Business systems                                                                                 Vanderbilt Center for
                               Risk Assessment and                                                                          Environmental Management
                                      Management                               VECTOR Transportation                                Systems (VCEMS)
                                        (B(B. Cooil)Cooil)                           ResearchResearch CenterCenter                      (M(M. Abkowitz)Abkowitz)
                                                                                        (M. Abkowitz)
                 Vanderbilt University                                                                reliability-studies.vanderbilt.edu
                  Reliability and Risk Engineering, Analysis, and Management
                          Industryyp & Government Suppport
             INDUSTRY                                                GOVERNMENT
             y Boeing                                                y U. S. DOD ((AFRL,, Army,y, Navy,y, AFOSR))
             y Kellogg, Brown & Root                                 y U. S. DOE (EM)
             y Fedex                                                 y U. S. DOT (FHWA) 
             y General Motors                                        yy  NASANASA ((LaRCLaRC, MSFCMSFC, GRCGRC, ARCARC, JPL)JPL)
             y Chrysler                                              y DOE Labs (SNL, LANL, INL, SRNL)
             y General Electric                                      y Nuclear Regulatory Commission
             y PrattPratt andand WhitneyWhitney                      y Federal Aviation Administration
             y Bell Helicopter
             y Medtronic                                                             Nature of support
             yy  UnionUnion PacificPacific                                           SiSummer intternshhiips
             y Xerox                                                                 Collaborative research projects
             Laboratories                                                            Advisory committee membership
             • StSouthhwestt RResearchh IInsttititutte                               Seminar sppeakers
             • Transportation Technology Center                                      Student recruitment
             Vanderbilt University                                                                reliability-studies.vanderbilt.edu