CIVL 314 - Engineering Economy

Credit Hours: 2

Required of all Civil and Environmental Engineering juniors. Topics include the time value of m1y, equivalence, simple and compound interest, nominal and effective interest rates, present worth and capitalized cost evaluation, equivalent uniform annual worth evaluation, rate of return evaluation, benefit/cost ratio evaluation, depreciation, corporate and individual income tax, after-tax economic analysis, and engineering ethics as applied by practicing engineers.
Lecture: 2 hours