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Session

NoTopics to be covered

No. of

HoursREMARKS

UNIT I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS1 Introduction to Economics- Flow in an economy. 1

2 Law of supply and demand 13 Concept of Engineering Economics 14 Engineering efficiency, Economic efficiency,

Scope of engineering economics1

5 Element of costs, Marginal cost, MarginalRevenue, Sunk cost, Opportunity cost,

16 Break-even analysis- P/V ratio, 17 Elementary economic Analysis. Material selection

for product Design, selection for a product,1

8 Process planning 19 Tutorial - 1 1

Total Hours : 9

UNIT II: VALUE ENGINEERING

10. Make or buy decision. - Value engineering 111. Value engineering - Function, aims, Value

engineering procedure.1

12. Interest formulae and their applications. Time value

of money1

13. Single payment compound amount factor, Single

payment present worth factor,

114. Equal payment series sinking fund factor 115. Equal payment series payment Present worth factor 116. Equal payment series capital recovery factor 117. Uniform gradient series annual equivalent factor 118. Effective interest rate, Examples in all the methods. 119. Tutorial - 2 1

Total Hours : 10

UNIT: III CASH FLOW

20. Methods of comparison of alternatives.Present worth method (Revenue dominated cash

flow diagram).

2

21. Future worth method (Revenue dominated cashflow diagram, cost dominated cash flow diagram),

2

22. Annual equivalent method (Revenue dominated

cash flow diagram, cost dominated cash flow

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diagram).

23. Rate of return method 124. Examples in all the methods. 125. Tutorial - 3 1

Total Hours : 9

UNIT: IV REPLACEMENT AND MAINTENANCE ANALYSIS

26. Replacement and Maintenance analysis. Types of

maintenance.

1

27. Types of replacement problem. 128. Determination of economic life of an asset, 129. Replacement of an asset with a new asset. 130. Types of maintenance capital recovery with return

and

Concept of challenger and defender.

231. Simple probabilistic model for items which fail

Completely.2

32. Tutorial - 4 1Total Hours : 9

UNIT: V DEPRECIATION

33. Depreciation- Introduction, Causes of Depreciation 1

34. Straight line method of depreciation, declining

balance method of depreciation

135. Sum of the years digits method of depreciation,

sinking fund method of depreciation/ Annuity

method ofDepreciation,

2

36. Service output method of depreciation 137. Evaluation of public alternatives- introduction,

Examples

138. Inflation adjusted decisions - procedure to adjust

inflation.1

39. Examples on comparison of alternatives anddetermination of economic life of asset. 1

40. Tutorial - 5 1Total Hours : 9

Total No. of Hours : 46