Engineering Economics Lesson Contents

  • Introduction to Economics: Supply and demand theory, supply and demand equilibrium, micro-and macro-economic analysis
  • Engineering Economics: Principles of engineering economy, engineering economy methodology, steps in an engineering economic analysis
  • Cost and Value Concepts: Sunk and opportunity costs, fixed, variable and incremental costs, recurring and non- recurring costs, direct, indirect, and overhead costs, standard costs, cash versus book costs, life cycle costs, value, market value, use value, fair value, book value, salvage value, value addition.
  • Product Costing: Sources of costing information: labor material, overheads, fixed cost, variable cost, absorption costing marginal costing standard costing. Inventory Valuation Methods.
  • Comparing alternatives: Net present value, net present cost, Cost Benefit analysis, internal rate of return, payback period, levelized costs, break-even analysis applicable to capital investment.

  • Margin of safety application in Master Production Scheduling.
  • Depreciation: Types of depreciation, methods of computing depreciation.

  • Economic life of equipment and replacement decisions.

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