Saturday 24 December 2011

On Engineering Economics

The subject of Engineering Economics covers the following topics:



  1. Basic notions in costing (see videos on Opportunity Cost; PPF and opportunity cost)
  2. Interest and Equivalence (including the concept of time value of money)
  3. Present Worth Analysis
  4. Future Worth Analysis
  5. Equivalent Annual Worth Analysis
  6. Rate of Return Analysis
  7. Benefit cost analysis
  8. Sensitivity Analysis
  9. Breakeven analysis
  10. Depreciation
  11. Income tax
  12. Replacement Analysis
  13. Inflation

References
  1. Panneerselvam, R. (2001) Engineering Economics, Prentic-Hall
  2. Riggs, J.L., Bedworth, D.D., and Randhawa, S.U. (1998) Engineering Economics, McGraw-Hill
  3. Lecture notes folder on Engin. Econ.: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150107684722090.319360.713727089&type=3
  4. On Economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics

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