Informative Links

The following is a list of links with descriptions to help you choose the one most relevant to the kind of information you are looking for. Each of these sites has a close relevance to engineering economic analysis.

• Total Cash Flow Analysis
• Critical Path Methods for Project Scheduling and Resource Allocation
• Replacement Analysis Summary
• How to Make a "Taxes and Depreciation" Spreadsheet
• Internal ROR vs External ROR
• An Introduction to Engineering Economics: This site provides good introductions to some of the very basic concepts of engineering economics and features a sample problem involving economic decision making.
• POUND WISE: Engineering Economics, Part One: And Greed BEgat Recession: This site features an article from the newsletter of the--hold your breath-- Fuzzball Eater Society (FES) which in their own words is "A motley assortment of engineers sharing a common determination to come to grips with the issues which are so important to our well being at work...and otherwise undiscussable". The article which is the first in a series on 'Engineering Economics' talks about how recession is a result of human greed.
• IIE Engineering Economy Division Homepage: This site is the homepage of the Engineering Economy Division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. It provides good information for the different programs, workshops and publications of the division.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis Data and Methodology: This is the homepage of the Bureau of Economic Analysis which is part of the Department of Commerce. This is a site for someone who wants to take advantage of the huge amount of data that the bureau analyzes to get information on such key issues as economic growth, regional development, and the position of the US position in world economy.
• The Centre for Management of Industrial Reliability and Cost Effectiveness: This is the homepage of The Centre for Management of Industrial Reliability and Cost Effectiveness at University of Exeter in UK. The center promotes global collaboration with the industry and research/academic institutions in various fields of industrial engineering.
• Contemporary Engineering Economics: This site is the homepage for the book Contemporary Engineering Economics by Dr. Chan S. Park. Dr. Park provides interesting and valuable links to a whole range of engineering economics sites.

This page was created by Sameer Vishwanathan, Student in the Graduate Program in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, and updated by Valerie Tardif, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.