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Engineering Economics and Problem Solving: CHE 4N4

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Course outline Course videos from 2012 and videos from 2013 Copyright and other legal stuff Comments, questions, feedback? Don't wait for official course evaluations. Announcements (previous ones) or Follow @4n4che 31 Oct: we have an external guest lecture coming up in November from a Praxair Project Manager/Cost Estimating Manager/Proposal Development Leader, on cost estimation and project management. 13 Nov: Tyler has volunteered to run a review session for 4N04 the day before the final exam, in JHE 342, on 12 December, from 5pm to 8pm. 13 Nov: a 4th (and final) memo has been posted, containing important details about the project reports. The memo answers questions that frequently came up during group meetings. 13 Nov: struggling with capital cost estimation: here's another university's slides on the topic, with good pictures to show what is being costed. 16 Nov: interested in entrepreneurial courses? A highly recommended program is starting in January right here in Hamilton. 18 Nov: because our guest speaker on Wednesday will be sharing confidential information, the class will not be video recorded. 19 Nov: a note from the guest speaker: It was really a pleasure being at McMaster today to share some thoughts with you and your students. They were a great audience and I hope they caught some good concepts from the session. And thank you so much for the Amazon gift....please extend my thanks to your students as well.

Course overview Engineering economics Process operability Process safety Process troubleshooting Engineering professionalism and ethics Wrap up class Course materials from 2013 Course materials from 2012 Resource materials (for SDL)

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Assignments/Tutorials Assignment questions will be available here. Parts of the assignments will be covered in the tutorial period. Assignment 1 Assignment 2 Assignment 3 Assignment 4 Assignment 5 Assignment 6 Assignment 7 Assignment 8 - due Friday, 21 November, 11:30 Assignment 9 Please follow these instructions when submitting electronically. Tests, exams and project Written midterm Self-directed learning project Final exam Practice questions for tests and exams Cover letter guidelines for written submissions Course reflection