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Engineering Economics and Problem Solving: CHE 4N4

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Course outline Course videos from 2012 Copyright and other legal stuff Comments, questions, feedback? Don't wait for official course evaluations. Announcements (previous ones) A note about the final exam and also be aware that I will be in Toronto for meetings until 1pm on Monday, so I will only be present at the very end of the exam, depending on traffic. This emphasizes the advice you will see on the exam: If any part of the question seems ambiguous, please make a clear and reasonable assumption, and continue your answer. New: After the 4N exam, please feel free to join your colleagues and friends at The Phoenix to celebrate the end of term. There's a reservation for 30 people, under the name Chem Eng 4N from 15:45 onwards on Monday, 17 December. See you there. A short memo from Dr. T. Marlin follows below. Please email Dr. Marlin directly if you discover any other errors in his material, or wish to provide him with feedback on this excellent resource he is working on. Chemical Engineering 4N04 Date: December 14, 2012 To: Students in 4N04 From: T. Marlin cc: K. Dunn Subject: Troubleshooting Chapter Professor Dunn has shared with me some of your successes during the course. I expect that you are exhausted but proud of your accomplishments. I am writing you concerning the Troubleshooting chapter. It was a first draft that I hurried to make available to you for this semester. After review, it is apparent that I hurried too much and did not catch some errors. The error that might confuse you as you prepare for the final involves the major example that is used throughout the first half of the chapter - The Drooping Temperature. The text references to some instruments are not consistent with the drawing in Figure 9.6. (I wrote the chapter; then, I decided that the figure was not adequate, so I redrew the figure with much more detail, inadvertently changing instrument numbers.) To help you study, please consider the following guidance on the instrument naming. Temperature control In Fig 9.6 = TC30 In the text = TC1 Feed Flow In Fig 9.6 = FC3 In the text = FC1 Fuel Flow In Fig 9.6 = F1 In the text = F2 Thanks to Professor Dunn for pointing out these errors. Sorry that they remain in the version that you have available. Best wishes on the exam. Many of you found the Personal Finance part of the course interesting. May I suggest you look into a longer free course being offered online from Coursera. For those of you not familiar with Coursera, please read their website, as this emerging trend of MOOC's (massive open online courses) is really picking up, and is an effective form of SDL.

Course overview Group work and chairperson skills Engineering economics Process safety Life-long and self-directed learning Process troubleshooting Dealing with uncertainty (reference only) Process operability Enrichment topics Course pack for 2012 Course wrap-up for 2012

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Assignments/Tutorials Assignment questions will be available here. Parts of the assignments will be covered in the tutorial period. Personal finance SDL assignment/tutorial (solutions covered in tutorial) Assignment 2: Time value of money (with solutions) Assignment 3: Profitability measures, depreciation, taxes and TVM (with solutions) Assignment 4: Sensitivity analysis, depreciation and taxes (with solutions) Assignment 5: Capital and operating cost estimation (with solutions) Assignment 6: Safety workshop (solutions covered in class on 23 Oct) Assignment 7: Process drawings and engineering operability (solutions covered in tutorial) Assignment 8: Troubleshooting (solutions covered in tutorial) Please follow these instructions when submitting electronically. Tests, exams and project Written midterm (with solutions) Self-directed learning project Final exam Practice questions for tests and exams Cover letter guidelines for written submissions Course reflection