Role of engineers in business
Economic decisions v/s design decisions
Large scale engineering projects and types of strategic economic decisions
Fundamental principles of engineering economics
Interest: The Cost of Money
Economic Equivalence
Development of Formulas for Equivalence Calculation
Unconventional Equivalence Calculations
Nominal and Effective Interest Rates
Equivalence Calculations with Effective Interest Rates and with Continuous Payments
Changing Interest Rates
Debt Management
Investing in Financial Assets
Project Cash Flows
Initial Project Screening Methods: payback Screening and Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Variations of Present-Worth Analysis
Comparing Mutually Exclusive Alternatives
Annual Equivalent-Worth Criterion
Capital Costs versus Operating Costs
Applying Annual-Worth Analysis
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
Design Economics
Rate of Return and Methods of Finding It
Internal Rate-of-Return Criterion
Mutually Exclusive Alternatives
Lectures (audio/video aids), Written Assignments/ Quizzes, Tutorials, Case Studies relevant to engineering disciplines, Semester Project, Guest Speaker, Industrial/ Field Visits, Group discussion, Report Writing
Mid Term, Report writing/ Presentation, Assignments, Project Report, Quizzes, Final Term
P. C. Wren & H. Martin “High School English Grammar & Composition”.
Colin W. Davis & Andrew J. Watts New Expressway For English 1 (latest Edition)
Herta A. Murphy & Herbert William Hildebrandt. Effective Business Communications
Diana Hacker. A Writer’s Reference
Sadat Ali Shah. Exploring The World Of English
J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet. Practical English Grammar, “UniversityPhysics”, latest Edition
There are 133 total credit hours to complete the Software Engineering degree.
