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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) 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 MOOCs (massive open online courses) is really picking up, and is an effective form of SDL. We are still grading exams and SDL reports. It is probably safe to expect grades to be available on Avenue around 28 or 29 December. Because uploading grades into Avenue is such a painful process, we will upload everything in a single batch.

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