Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ted Eschenbach P.E., TGE Consulting; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Neal A. Lewis, Fairfield University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

changing orrepealing MACRS. The corporate tax rate has not only been lowered dramatically, it has alsobeen changed to a flat tax rate rather than progressively increasing with taxable income. Inaddition, some of the significant changes in the tax law have been implemented as temporarywith scheduled phase-outs beginning in 5 years.With all of this in mind, the decisions of what we should and will cover are complicated by boththe near and long-term law changes. Laws can change faster than textbooks can keep up with, yetstudents need to leave our classrooms with accurate data and current understanding.Literature ReviewThe Engineering Economy Division of ASEE has a history of publishing conference works thatexplore how we teach engineering economics