Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Harriet Black Nembhard and Mehmet Aktan -- Real options in practice / Johnathan Mun -- Origins of real options in engineering / Harriet Black Nembhard and Mehmet Aktan -- Real options in manufacturing operations / Harriet Black Nembhard and Mehmet Aktan, and Leyuan Shi -- Real options valuation for quality improvement / Harriet Black Nembhard and Mehmet Aktan -- Real options in outsourcing / Mehmet Aktan, Harriet Black Nembhard, and Leyuan Shi -- Barriers to real options adoption and use in architecture, engineering, and construction project management practice / David N. Ford and Michael J. Garvin -- Identifying real options to improve the design of engineering systems / Richard de Neufville ... [et al.] -- Real options in underground mining systems planning and design / Vassilios Kazakidis and Zachary Mayer.

Real options in engineering systems design / Konstantinos Kalligeros -- Real options model for workforce cross-training / David A. Nembhard, Harriet Black Nembhard, and Ruwen Qin -- Real options design for sustainable product quality / Julie Ann Stuart Williams, Mehmet Aktan, and Harriet Black Nembhard -- Real options in nanotechnology R&D / Antench Ayanso and Hemantha Herath -- Real options-based analysis in pharmaceutical partnerships for research and development / Minjung Kim -- Hands-on applications : real option super lattice solver software.