Teaching assistant: CEE 504 Engineering Economic and Finance
Graduate course, University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Department, 2021
Engineering Economics and Finance — This course focuses on evolving financial decision making in engineering practice. Topics like accounting, public and private investment decision making, project management and risk and uncertainty are covered and linked to practical problems that are meaningful to (smart) infrastructure systems and the students’ professional futures. Quantitative techniques include time value of money, cash flow analysis, present and annual worth analysis, internal rates of return, depreciation, and financial accounting. Students learn to integrate financial considerations to engineering decision making and understand how project decisions are affected by tradeoffs, risk, and uncertainty.
Textbook: Principles of Engineering Economic Analysis, White, J.A., K.E. Case, and D.B. Pratt, 6th edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.