Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingjing Tong, Southeast Missouri State University; Heather Nachtmann, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

consequences can be significant. Extensive data related to thedisrupted inland waterway needs to be collected and economically analyzed to support bestdisruption recovery practices. A section of the Mississippi River is selected as the study regionand supports a realistic case study to put engineering economic tools into practice. Commodityfreight, infrastructure, and terminal data within the selected study region are collected to providea real world information pool to support development of practical engineering economy skills inundergraduate engineering and engineering technology students. An instructor’s guide isprovided to support efficient adoption in the classroom. Successful completion of the case studywill give students an opportunity to