Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division (EED) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ted Eschenbach, University of Alaska ; Neal A. Lewis, University of Nebraska

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Engineering Economy Division (EED)

typically include some level of personal finance rangingfrom loans and savings up to complexities of investing for retirement, insurance, social security,stocks and bonds, and annuities. Class testing has demonstrated that students have a keen interestin personal finance examples [1].In earlier work [2] and again here, we assert that with the opportunity to teach engineeringeconomy students about retirement planning comes with the responsibility to do so. Engineerswho fail to plan and invest for retirement will face additional challenges when it comes to theethical challenges of engineering practice.This paper is an introductory case study of how FICA taxes and social security benefits can bedetermined and linked together to calculate an internal

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division (EED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara R. Etmannski, University of British Columbia

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy Division (EED)

learning, team-projects and writing-based assignments, with special focus on learning through real-world applications ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Creation of Open-Source Course Materials for Engineering Economics Course with Help from a Team of Students - Lessons Learned Tamara R. Etmannski Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada tamara.etmannski@ubc.ca1. IntroductionIn accordance with program accreditation prerequisites [1], engineering students across Canadaare mandated to undertake an Engineering