TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY – KINGSVILLE

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering

CEEN 3317: Engineering Economy
Fall 2019
Engineering Economy Term Project – Instructions
• Students will form into teams of up to SIX (6). A list of your team members with selected
topic must be submitted to the instructor before October 10, 2019.
• Each team will identify an engineering economics problem in which they are interested.
It is desirable that the teams select a topic related to one of your engineering courses. The
project can be from a wide range of topics—including service improvement, equipment
or process selection, investment desirability, a new product or service, or cost reduction.
• Each team will implement the decision-making steps outlined in section 1.1.1 of the
textbook. These steps are:
1. Recognize a decision problem.
2. Define the goals or objectives.
3. Collect all the relevant information.
4. Identify a set of feasible decision alternatives.
5. Select the decision criterion to use.
6. Select the best alternative, using the methods covered in the course.
• Each team will develop a PowerPoint presentation to explain the case and discuss
questions/issues that it raises. Each team has 10 minutes to give this presentation—and all
team members must participate in the presentation. Electronic files of all PowerPoint
slides must be sent to the instructor prior to 8:00 AM on the date of the presentation, at
xiaoyu.liu@tamuk.edu.
• After the presentations, the rest of the students in the class will ask constructive questions
to help the teams complete the case that they presented.
• In addition to the oral presentation, the teams will submit a final written report. The
report (maximum 10 pages) should cover the content presented by the team as well as the
issues and questions raised by the class after the team’s presentation. This report is due
on December 12, 2019. Reports must be submitted as an electronic file to the
Blackboard. The name of the file should be [Project Name].doc. A hard copy of the
report must also be submitted in class.
• The teams will be evaluated on the quality and completeness of their presentations, their
application of knowledge gained in the course, and their insight into the issues of the
case.
• Each team member will individually complete and submit a “Peer Evaluation Form.”
 Recommended Topics
1. Parking Garage
2. Electric Cars
3. Apartment Complex
4. Nuclear Power Plant
5. Construction Equipment
6. Heavy Lifting Mobile Suit
7. Green Homes
8. Wind Turbine
9. Cell Phone
If you want to select a topic which is not listed above, please highlight it when you submit the
list of team members. Please make sure your topic should be related to one of your engineering
courses.