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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

Session 3286 Graphic Claymation – Visualization Through Sight And Touch Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Michael Lobaugh Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeIntroduction:“Introduction to Graphics and Solids Modeling” (METBD 110) is a first semester freshmen classfor all students enrolled in the Plastics Engineering Technology (PLET) and MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) programs in both the associate and bachelors programs offeredat Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. This class is a three-credit course, which meets fivehours per week for 14 weeks in a supervised lab setting. Since it is a

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

Session 2561 Engineers as Poets The Need for Poetry Contests in Colleges of Engineering Craig James Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MIABET’s new requirements for accreditation give a clear indication that written communication isof tantamount importance in the education of undergraduate engineers. It is interesting to notethat previous to EC 2000, communication in all its forms did not merit more than a few

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nancy Tuana; John Wisw; John Christman; Andy Lau; Thomas Litzinger

Session 2793 Learning and Teaching Ethics in Engineering: Preparing Engineering Faculty to Teach Ethics Thomas Litzinger, John Christman, Andy Lau, Nancy Tuana, and John Wise Penn StateAbstractThrough assessment processes recently put into place, many engineering departments at PennState identified a need to enhance the ethics components of their curricula. To supportdepartments in their enhancement processes, the College of Engineering worked with the Collegeof the Liberal Arts to create a faculty development program to

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

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Harry Franz

FIELD BUS INSTRUMENTATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AT HOUSTON, TEXAS AREA UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. Prof. Harry Franz, P.E. 1 University of Houston-Downtown Member ASEE, IEEE, ISA, NSPEAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the Fieldbus foundation grant and developmentat Lee College, Baytown, Texas and the dissemination of this Fieldbus bus instrumentationtechnology to the University of Houston-Downtown, Brazosport College, San Jacinto Collegeand other instrumentation technology programs.Lee College in Baytown Texas has received a National Science Foundation grant tostudy Fieldbus instrumentation technology and

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 3260 MEGATRENDS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D., James Madison University and Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E., World Expertise LLCAbstractIn 1982 John Naisbitt introduced a new technique of gleaning trends in our society in hisbest-selling book Megatrends – content analysis. He based his futurist predictions on adetailed analysis of what the news media were reporting, by taking time to connectindividual events to begin to understand larger patterns. His

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norb Delatte

profession – the Quebec Bridge, the Kansas City Hyatt Regency, and others• With appropriate course materials, these cases can be integrated into a number of civil engineering and engineering mechanics courses• Most faculty do not have the time to develop case studies themselves, and would welcome a web-based source of case materials. Survey respondents asked in particular for a thorough online bibliography.In response to the survey results, the National Science Foundation has funded a researchproject at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) entitled “Developing CaseStudies in Failures and Ethics for Engineering Educators,” as project number DUE0127419. The two-year project began 1 March 2002. The project is being carried outwith the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Carr

creation of new things thatpeople want", then young women and men who aspire to advance mankind's well beingneed exactly this kind of holistic thinking. Most engineering freshmen have littleaccurate knowledge about what distinguishes an engineering education from one in, say,science, but today's college students actually become energized by getting intoengineering academic work as soon as they enter college.Implementation of a significant revision of the freshman engineering curriculum hasrequired the usual mix of patience, vision, diligence, and attention to details. The processhere at Northwestern started by engaging leading faculty to drive this enterprise. Usingtheir collective wisdom they crafted two new course sequences that encompassed

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Smith; Angela Quick

organizers hope to repeat annually andexpand with goals including joint and French participation in science and engineeringcompetitions.The US School (Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology)The Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology (RMSST, www.rockdale.gatech.edu)was founded in 2000. This magnet high school provides a unique combination of requiredresearch classes and projects, an international research partnership, and direct liaison withcollege engineering personnel. Specialized AP and magnet school science, mathematics, andresearch classes are taught to the participating 130 magnet students by magnet school teachers,while non-magnet school classes are taken with the general population and their teachers in a1400 student

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Primus Tillman

Session 1991 Partnerships in Streaming Media Technology Primus J. Tillman Assistant Professor, Department of Technology East Tennessee State UniversitySeveral years ago, when computers were a rarity and few people were familiar and comfortablewith the technology, a major computer vendor identified the potential for using computers as aneducational tool and established a mutually beneficial relationship between education andtechnology. Apple Computers donated its computers and operating system to educationalinstitutions, at no cost to

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REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Bird; Mark D'Avila; Penny Hirsch

Session 2309 Enriching the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs) in Biomedical Engineering Penny L. Hirsch1, Stephanie J. Bird2, Mark D’Avila3 1 Engineering Design and Communication, Northwestern University/ 2 Office of the Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ 3 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and TechnologyAbstractResearchers in VaNTH--a National Science Foundation (NSF) consortium of schools with strongbioengineering departments, namely Vanderbilt

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Brader; Jed Lyons

communication skills of 11 engineering graduatestudents, enhanced the ability of 51 elementary school teachers to use engineering applications toteach science, and inspired hundreds of elementary children. This cohort of Fellows included 4PhD, 5 MS and 2 BS/MS students from the departments of mechanical, chemical, civil, andenvironmental engineering. The Fall 2001 cohort of 11 teacher partners were from schools thatare part of USC’s Professional Development School network. The spring 2002 cohort ofteachers were from schools that have not traditionally benefited from a relationship with theuniversity. In addition, 29 elementary teachers from across the state participated in the GK-12Summer Institute for Teachers. During the institute, the Fellows

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

long-term results are inadequate responses to immediate needs. But in orderto insure that this aid is not wasted, the population of these countries must be prepared toact in partnership with the donor nations in monitoring funds distribution and assessingtheir impact on the economic welfare of their countries.This paper argues two points. First, foreign aid in the US and other developed countriesmust be raised to a minimum of .7% of the combined GDP of the developed countries.Second, 10% of that foreign aid must be earmarked for higher learning in engineering andtechnology in order to increase economic development and its concomitant result,alleviation of poverty. With an adequately educated and trained indigenous workforce tohelp implement

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

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Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Session 1333 Teaching the Design of Energy Conversion in Propulsion Systems Craig W. Somerton, Laura Genik, Todd Jammer, Dean Hagler, and Tomohiro Hamada Michigan State University/University of Portland/Michigan State UniversityIntroductionA design project has been developed and implemented in a senior-level thermal design coursethat addresses energy conversion as it applies to land-based propulsion systems. The sameproject has been used in similar courses at both the University of Portland and Michigan StateUniversity. An in-house computer program, TeachPiston, is utilized which allows the students toinvestigate several operating

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bill Tollner

2003-1381 Thermodynamics – where does it fit? Ernest W. Tollner Biol. & Agr. Engineering Dept. University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 btollner@engr.uga.eduAbstractWith the advent of biological engineering and with the changing of emphasis in manyagricultural engineering programs around the country, it is time for a fresh look into howsome of our engineering science courses are structured. The ongoing shrinkage in thenumber of hours available in the typical undergraduate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

Session 2793 The Diversity Programs' Graduate Bridge Program Robert LaFarge and Chaouki T. Abdallah University of New MexicoIntroductionThis country needs more female and underrepresented minority graduate students in STEMfields. According to the National Science Foundation, 1 a citizenry informed in science andengineering is critical to maintaining and improving our nation’s current standard of living.Higher education, particularly graduate education, is essential to meeting this goal;unfortunately, graduation rates for some minorities and women are underrepresented

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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E. Perry Deess; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori; John Carpinelli

the retention rate of EOP sophomores; 422 students wereserved by this program. One of the objectives was to develop a special treatment which included,but was not limited to, the assignment of role model peers to work closely with the EOP residentsand commuter sophomores to provide tutoring, peer counseling, and academic supportworkshops.This paper analyzes the performance of students in this program to gauge its effectiveness.The study is a quasi-experimental design: ELA students were included in the experimental group,and sophomores with similar gender/ethnic distribution, SAT and placement test scores wereincluded in the comparison group. The study analyzed such learning outcomes as retention,graduation and passing rates of students in the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Smith; Angela Quick

Session 2530 The Unique Research Curriculum, Motivations, and Results of the Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology William W. Smith, Jr / Angela Hinson Quick Georgia Tech / Rockdale Magnet School for Science and TechnologyIntroductionOpening in the 2000 academic year, the Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology isan alliance between the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering and theRockdale County (Georgia) Public Schools. This magnet high school provides a uniquecombination of required research classes and projects, an international research

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Krahe; David Loker

Session 2648 Visual C++ Applications in an EET Curriculum David R. Loker, P.E., Ronald P. Krahe, P.E. Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, Visual C++ applications are presented that utilize the Microsoft Visual Studio .NetIntegrated Development Environment (IDE). The Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)Baccalaureate program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, continues to expand to includecomputer technology elective courses. One of the courses proposed is an EET course in Windowssoftware development. This is consistent with a goal within

Conference Session

Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Efrat Strassberg; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

K. Schmidt Faculty Innovative Center College of Engineering University of Texas at AustinIntroduction One of the main needs for the US Department of Energy (DOE) is the training of studentswith advanced degrees in radiochemistry to maintain on going and new programs in radioactivewaste management, nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear medicine, non-proliferation, and the new areas ofhomeland security. In the past two decades, the number of students choosing radiochemistry hasdramatically fallen to the point where there is a dearth of qualified personnel to work in abovementioned areas. Traditionally nuclear and radiochemistry was taught in

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Blace Albert; Wayne Whiteman

compartmentalization. This paper presents a proposedoutline of an integrated two-semester course sequence in dynamic systems, vibration, and controlat the junior or senior level of the undergraduate experience. Selected topics could also bearranged to provide a one-semester course. Prerequisites for this proposed offering include abasic knowledge of linear algebra and calculus through differential equations, statics, dynamics,mechanics of materials, and basic electrical circuit theory and analysis. A graphical overview, ormind map, of the course is provided along with a detailed description of the various topicscovered and the sequencing of the material.IntroductionThis paper addresses the need for integrating topics within the mechanical

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dr. Maria Kreppel; Max Rabiee

Session 2625 University/Community Partnership through Senior Design Projects Maria Curro Kreppel, Max Rabiee University of CincinnatiAbstractThe College of Applied Science (CAS) at the University of Cincinnati (UC) offers a range ofengineering technology degrees at the baccalaureate level. Seniors are required to enroll in acapstone curriculum entitled “Senior Design.” Working individually or in small groups, theyexperience the project management process in its entirety—from concept development and designanalysis to prototype fabrication and testing.The senior design sequence

Conference Session

Teaching Styles and Peer Review

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2003 Annual Conference

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Malgorzata Zywno

Session 1122 Engineering Faculty Teaching Styles and Attitudes toward Student-Centered and Technology-Enabled Teaching Strategies Malgorzata S. Zywno Ryerson UniversityAbstractThis paper presents results of a survey assessing learning preferences and teaching strategies ofengineering faculty. Of particular interest were questions pertaining to technologyimplementations and to professional development. The survey pointed to lack of interest ineducational activities and low use of innovative instructional methods and instructionaltechnologies

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Session 1430 Engineering Students and Training in Teamwork: How Effective? Linda Schmidt, Janet Schmidt University of Maryland Carol Colbeck Pennsylvania State University David Bigio, Paige Smith, and Lee Harper University of MarylandAbstractThe motivating principle of the BESTEAMS (Building Engineering Student Team Effectivenessand Management Systems) project is to create a modular student team training program that canbe integrated into any

Conference Session

Multimedia Arena

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Meador; Amit Chourasia

implementing aprocess to animate and realistically render the approach, impact, and explosion of the plane, basedon an expert analysis of the crash and FEA data. One of the purposes of this project was todevelop a data pipeline from FEA simulations to 3D animation and rendering programs that canbe extended to other simulations thus bridging the gap between two non-coherent systemscreating scientifically accurate simulations.Introduction Shortly after the attack on the United States Pentagon on September 11, 2001 a team ofinspectors and analysts were called in to assess the damage to the structure and report on how itreacted to the impact of a Boeing 757. Dr. Mete Sozen, a structural engineer at PurdueUniversity, was one of the inspection team

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sue Scheff

#2793 Tackling the Engineering Resource Shortage in the South: How Can We Attract and Retain Women to Engineering? Suzanne Scheff University of KentuckyAbstract:How should universities handle the shrinking number of females entering their engineeringprograms? What are the obstacles unique to the South that face college administrators? Theseare important questions that need to be addressed.Recently, the Southeast Conference (SEC) universities have formed a coalition to establish adialog among the SEC engineering schools. One goal of this coalition is

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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H. David Smith; Cara Rieger; David Kanter; Robert Linsenmeier; Ann McKenna

SESSION 2230 Inquiry-based Laboratory Instruction Throws Out the “Cookbook” and Improves Learning David E. Kanter 1,2, H. David Smith 3, Ann McKenna 1,2, Cara Rieger 1, Robert A. Linsenmeier 1,4 1 Biomedical Engineering Department / 2 School of Education and Social Policy / 3 Searle Center for Teaching Excellence / 4 Department of Neurobiology and Physiology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL1.0 AbstractWe designed an inquiry-based pre-laboratory on energy metabolism, applying research on howpeople learn, toward

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rafiqul Islam

@nsula.eduAbstract'Going global' is a popular term in academia and industry today. In order to maintain leadership ininterdependent global economy United States must possess an adequate technically literateworkforce. Unfortunately there has been a substantial decline in enrollment in the engineering andtechnology programs in North American colleges and Universities since early ninety's. At this timeof phenomenon growth, sweeping changes of technologies and the economic globalization it isrewarding to focus our whole hearted effort to recruitment. That is why, the author has identifiedthe related target areas: to influence the students towards engineering and technology career inthe K-12 level, to change the admission criteria and standards, to explore the need

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paula Baty; Erdogan Sener

Session 1621 Green Design and Construction: An Example—Commercial “Green” Roofs Erdogan M. Sener 1 & Paula Baty2 Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Abstract“Green” design and construction refers to architectural design and construction practices that takeinto consideration a number of issues related to the environment, including, but not limited to, energysavings in heating and cooling, environmentally friendly construction materials, wastewater, andplacement on site. Despite the fact that only 3 % of new buildings in the U.S.A. have

Conference Session

Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

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Staci White; Paul Strykowski

2003-1397 CHARACTERIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SR-30 TURBOJET ENGINE T. Witkowski, S. White, C. Ortiz Dueñas, P. Strykowski, T. Simon University of MinnesotaIntroduction“What?!!” exclaimed one student. “Thermodynamics doesn’t work! Why am I even studyingthis stuff ?!” She was taking her senior lab – an engine lab with the SR-30 engine – and thenumbers didn’t work out… on purpose. The professor had set it up that way.The SR-30 is a small-scale, turbojet engine which sounds and smells like a real engine used tofly commercial aircraft. With an overall length of less than 2.0 feet

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gabriel Alungbe

professionallives. Unfortunately, the importance of this course is greatly undermined as some students’ havedifficulties with the course. This paper will present the approaches I have utilized in teachingengineering economy to engineering technology students in the past ten years.What is Engineering Economy?Engineering Economy, which is also commonly referred to as Engineering Economics orEngineering Economic Analysis by some, is a course classified by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) under their Convention Criteria as technical specialty.4 It isa required course for most engineering technology programs. It deals with the financial aspects ofinvestments to help engineers and managers make decisions that are beneficial to the