After my retirement from Sandia National Laboratories Vijay Nair, University of Michigan, invited me to teach an introductory course on experimental design at that campus. That experience and subsequent teaching opportunities at the University of Auckland, McMurry University, and the Naval Postgraduate School led to the development of class notes that evolved into this book. My wife, Susie, and I thoroughly enjoyed life as an itinerant Visiting Professor and greatly benefited from the stimulating environments provided by these universities.

I particularly want to thank the following authors for granting me permission to use examples from their texts: George Box and J. Stuart Hunter (Statistics for Experimenters); Johannes Ledolter, Arthur Swersey, and Gordon Bell (Testing 1-2-3: Experimental Design with Applications in Marketing and Service Operations); Douglas Montgomery (Design and Analysis of Experiments); Chris Triggs (Sample Surveys and Experimental Designs); and George Milliken and Dallas Johnson (Analysis of Messy Data, vol. I., Designed Experiments). Wiley’s reviewers provided insightful and helpful comments on the draft manuscript, and a review of the manuscript from a student’s perspective by Naveen Narisetty, University of Michigan, was especially valuable. Max Morris, Iowa State University, provided a very helpful sounding board throughout. I also am thankful to Prachi Sinha Sahay, Jo Taylor, and Kathryn Sharples of the editorial staff at John Wiley & Sons, and to Umamaheshwari Chelladurai and Prasanna Venkatakrishnan who shepherded this project through to publication.