Conference Session

Engineering Economy: Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Remer, Harvey Mudd College; Karen Ahle, Raytheon; Kevin Alley, Southwest Research Institute; John Silny, Raytheon; Karen Hsin, Accenture; Elijah Kwitman, Harvey Mudd College; Allison Hutchings, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

cost estimation and related topics at Universities such as UCLA, Caltech, Page 12.411.5University of California at Riverside, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. These shortcourses have also been presented at over 25 companies, national laboratories, and governmentagencies. Many of these engineers and managers have strongly felt this topic should be introducedinto the engineering undergraduate curriculum. To prepare our graduates at Harvey MuddCollege for the challenges they will be facing in their careers in the complex global economy, wehave introduced an elective course on cost estimation for our engineering majors. This