Cases in Engineering Economy [Paperback]

Designed to bring real-world complexity into the classroom,Cases in Engineering Economyprovides 54 unique case studies in engineering economy. An ideal supplement to your engineering economic text, this casebook helps students to hone their analytical, logical, and communicative skills. The cases are authored by Ted Eschenbach and William Peterson, with contributions from engineering economy professors from ten different universities.

1. New Office Equipment:Student develops requirements with little given data for activities to be supported by new copier machines. Organizational thinking required.
2. Budgeting Issues:Strategies for a group's operating budget request. One focus is ethics.
3. Wildcat Oil in Kasakstan:Rough order of magnitude estimation of total facility cost and annual revenue. Option for NPV and different size facility.
4. Balder-Dash Inc.:Standard cost and allocated costs vs. true marginal cost (IE's).
5. Can Crusher:Basic time value of money, costs, and breakeven analysis.
6. Lease a Lot:Compares leasing and ownership. Results show importance of separating financing and investing decisions.
7. The Board Looks to You:Bond valuation with realistic business details including early-call premium. Medium difficulty. Good example of employer taking a small fact and making big assumptions about individual talents--why engineering students must keep learning.
8. Picking a Price:Simplified real estate analysis. Demonstrates analysis to screen before acquiring more data and further decision-making.
9. Recycling?:Financial analysis supports recycling cardboard and selling unusable pallets to recycler.
10. The Cutting Edge:Make vs. buy and machine selection.
11. Harbor Delivery Service:Annual comparison of diesel vs. gasoline enginelÃ+