Probability Foundations for Engineers
暫譯: 工程師的機率基礎

這本教科書將繼續是專為工業工程和運營管理學生設計的概率論入門課程的最佳教材。它以易於理解的方式提供理論，並包含許多基於工程應用的實際範例。

Joel Nachlas is an Associate Professor Emeritus of the faculty of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He served on that faculty from 1974 until 2016. During his tenure in that department, he served as the coordinator for the department's Operations Research faculty and curricula and was also the coordinator of the department's international program. The foci of Dr. Nachlas research were the application of probability theory to reliability analysis and maintenance planning and of statistical methods to quality control. He earned the B.E.S. from at Johns Hopkins University in 1970 and the M.S. and Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1974 and 1976 respectively. All three of his degrees are in Industrial Engineering with a concentration in Operations Research. Dr. Nachlas has received numerous awards for his research including the 1991 P. K. McElroy Award and the 2004 Golomski Award. He continues to serve as the editor of the Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. He was a member of INFORMS and IISE and he is a Fellow of the Society of Reliability Engineers and a Fellow of the American Society for Quality. During his tenure at VT, Dr. Nachlas served for twenty years as a visiting professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Nice in France. While on the VT faculty, he served for 35 seasons as head coach of the Virginia Tech men's lacrosse team and was selected in 2001 as the US Lacrosse MDIA national coach of the year.

喬爾·納克拉斯（Joel Nachlas）是維吉尼亞理工大學工業與系統工程系的名譽副教授。他自1974年起至2016年在該系任教。在他任職期間，他擔任該系運籌學（Operations Research）教員及課程的協調員，並且也是該系國際項目的協調員。納克拉斯博士的研究重點是將機率論應用於可靠性分析和維護規劃，以及將統計方法應用於品質控制。他於1970年在約翰霍普金斯大學獲得工業工程學士學位（B.E.S.），並於1974年和1976年分別在匹茲堡大學獲得碩士（M.S.）和博士（Ph.D.）學位。他的三個學位均為工業工程，專注於運籌學。納克拉斯博士因其研究獲得了多項獎項，包括1991年的P. K. McElroy獎和2004年的Golomski獎。他持續擔任年度可靠性與維護研討會論文集的編輯。他是INFORMS和IISE的成員，並且是可靠性工程學會的會士（Fellow）以及美國品質學會的會士。在維吉尼亞理工大學任職期間，納克拉斯博士在法國尼斯高等工藝學院（Ecole Polytechnique de Nice）擔任了二十年的客座教授。在維吉尼亞理工大學任教期間，他擔任維吉尼亞理工男子曲棍球隊的主教練35個賽季，並於2001年被選為美國曲棍球MDIA年度國家教練。