Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Economy into Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Joseph Wilck IV, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

Approach for Engineering Curriculum Integration in Capstone Design Courses,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 14(3), 197-203, 1998.6. Ana Vila-Parrish, Dianne Raubenheimer, “Integrating Project Management & Lean-Six Sigma Methodologies in an Industrial Engineering Capstone Course,” Proceedings of the 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.7. John Lamancusa, Jens Jorgensen, Jose Zayas-Castro, Julie Ratner, “THE LEARNING FACTORY – A new approach to integrating design and manufacturing into engineering curricula,” Proceedings of the 1995 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.8. R.S. Sawhney, S. Maleki, J.H. Wilck, P

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Economy into Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Wilck IV, East Carolina University; Paul C. Lynch, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

initiativesthroughout the country and to the growing technical demand of the country’s workforce.High School Initiatives and Inadequacy of the Common CoreMany states are looking closely at the specific learning outcomes of high school courses and anengineering economics course in college general education integrates well with these efforts.For example, Virginia has a policy for all public high school students to pass a Financial Literacycourse prior to high school graduation33. The topical coverage of this course links directly to acollege course in engineering economics due to an emphasis on decision making with the timevalue of money concept for individual decisions (e.g., obtaining a loan, developing a personalbudget, implications of a simple contract). The