Conference Session

Engineering Economics New Frontiers

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

administered on the assignedreadings and the homework assignments and students were provided with quick feedback. Onoccasion, clickers were employed to assess the understanding of concepts and create anenvironment to engage students and provide immediate feedback to both students andinstructors. Students worked problems in teams and each team submitted responses using aclicker. On other occasions, students were asked to take a position for or against ethically-oriented challenges confronted during benefit cost analyses and debate the issues. This activitynot only assisted the sensing and global learners by providing relevancy of the course material toreal-life issues, but also engaged students actively in thinking, analyzing, and