The Treatment Of Engineering Economy In Other Engineering Texts

This paper looks at how engineering economy subjects are treated in non-engineering-economy texts. Over the years, the author of this paper has taught an eclectic variety of both engineering and non-engineering courses and has often been surprised by the treatment of engineering economy in the texts used in these courses. When asked to review an otherwise good text in cost estimation, this author was surprised by the treatment of one engineering economy topic in an area so essential to the development of the inputs to the economic analysis at the core of engineering economy. This paper discusses these treatments and their implications for the engineering economy discipline.