About this issue

This Special Issue of this TRANSACTIONS is directed to the subject of Administrative Experimentation, which may be described as the use of the methods of scientific experimentation by the administrator (manager) in evaluating changes he has made or is planning to make to obtain improvements in performance. The origin of this issue may be traced to the long-term interest of the Administrative Committee and the Editor in obtaining more papers by working managers for this TRANSACTIONS. It is hoped that the description of the method of administrative experimentation which is provided, and the examples, will encourage engineering managers to report the results of their own, often informal, experiments.