Covers the basic techniques and applications of engineering economy for all disciplines in the engineering profession. This title explains and demonstrates the principles and techniques of engineering economic analysis as applied in different fields of engineering.

Fundamentals of Engineering Economic Analysis offers a powerful, visually-rich approach to the subject—delivering streamlined yet rigorous coverage of the use of economic analysis techniques in engineering design. This award-winning textbook provides an impressive array of pedagogical tools to maximize student engagement and comprehension, including learning objectives, key term definitions, comprehensive case studies, classroom discussion questions, and challenging practice problems. Clear, topically—organized chapters guide students from fundamental concepts of borrowing, lending, investing, and time value of money, to more complex topics such as capitalized and future worth, external rate of return, deprecation, and after-tax economic analysis. This fully-updated second edition features substantial new and revised content that has been thoroughly re-designed to support different learning and teaching styles. Numerous real-world vignettes demonstrate how students will use economics as practicing engineers, while plentiful illustrations, such as cash flow diagrams, reinforce student understanding of underlying concepts. Extensive digital resources now provide an immersive interactive learning environment, enabling students to use integrated tools such as Excel. The addition of the WileyPLUS platform provides tutorials, videos, animations, a complete library of Excel video lessons, and much more.

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This work offers a concise, but in-depth coverage of all fundamental topics of engineering economics.

In today's rapidly changing global economy, business managers must have the tools and know-how to quickly evaluate the economic viability of potential solutions to engineering problems. An entire field of study has evolved to meet this need, yet there are few straightforward texts that outline the basics of engineering economics. Fundamentals of Engineering Economics is an accessible, comprehensive guide to the fundamental principles, concepts, and methods of engineering economics. Utilizing detailed case studies and exercises reflecting current trends and issues in economics, this book introduces students to a variety of key concepts, including estimation of the time value of money, evaluation of a single project, decision analysis, depreciation and taxes. This is an ideal textbook for Economic Analysis and Technical Applications students, or anyone seeking to gain an understanding of the core concepts of engineering economics. Fundamentals of Engineering Economics is organized into the following topical chapters: - Overview of Engineering Economy - Fixed and Variable Costs - Time Worth of Money - Five Methods for Evaluation of Capital Project - Comparison of Alternates and Decision Analysis - Depreciation and Replacement Analysis - Taxes, Tariffs, and Duties - Public Sector Initiatives and Benefit-to-Cost Ratio - Break-Even Analysis and Spider Plots Kal Renganathan Sharma serves as Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (1985, Chennai, India) and his MS and Ph.D degrees from West Virginia University (1987, 1990, Morgantown, WV). All three degrees are in chemical engineering. Dr. Sharma is the author of 10 books, 4 book chapters, 21 journal articles, 528 conference papers and 108 other presentations. He is the recipient of several prestigious honors and awards, including the Outstanding Student of the Penultimate Year from the Rev. Brothers of St. Gabriel at RSK Higher Secondary School (Trichy, India) and an Honorary Fellowship from the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials (Melbourne, Australia).

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The Basics of Engineering Economy is designed to assist students in understanding and using the fundamental concepts and methods of economic evaluation to materially enhance rational data-centered decision-making in all these dimensions. This text covers the basic techniques and applications of engineering economy for all disciplines in the engineering profession. The third edition concentrates on fundamental techniques and their applications, the efficient use of spreadsheets, and a rich coverage of personal financial situations in which engineering economy techniques can be applied easily and rapidly. The text presents the topics in condensed formats when compared to the larger text Engineering Economy.

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