TOPIC 12: ESTIMATING COSTS

 How cost estimates are made

 Unit method
 Cost Indexes
 Cost- estimating relationships: Cost –capacity Equations
 Cost-estimating relationships: Factor Method
 Cost-estimating relationships: learning curve
 Indirect cost(overhead) estimation and allocation

 Describe different approaches to cost estimation

 Use a unit cost factor to estimate preliminary cost.

 Use a cost index to estimate present cost based on historic data.

 Estimate the cost of a component, system, or plant by using a cost-capacity equation.

 Estimate total plant cost using the factor method

 Estimate time and cost using the learning curve relationship.

 Allocate indirect cost using traditional indirect cost rate sand the Activity-based costing
(ABC) method.

TOPIC 13: KINEMATICS OF A PARTICLE: FORCE AND ACCELERATION

 Depreciation Terminology
 Straight line (SL) Depreciation
 Declining balance depreciation
 Modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS)
 Switching between classical methods, relation to MACRS rates
 Depletion Methods
 Using spreadsheets for depreciation computations

 Understand and use the basic terminology of depreciation.

 Apply the straight line method.

 Apply the declining balance method.

 Apply the Modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS)

 Switch form one classical method to another, explain how MACRS uses switching.
  Utilize percentage depletion and cost depletion methods for natural resource
investments.

 Use various Excel functions to determine depreciation and book value schedules

TOPIC 14: AFTER-TAX ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

 Income tax terminology and relations

 Before-tax and after tax alternative evaluation
 How depreciation can affect an after-tax study
 Capital funds and the cost of Capital
 Using spreadsheets for after-tax evaluation
 After-tax value-added analysis
 Tax considerations for international projects

 Correctly use the basic terminology and income tax rates.

 Calculate after-tax cash flow and evaluate alternatives.

 Demonstrate the tax impact of depreciation recapture, accelerated depreciation, and a

shortened recovery period.

 Evaluate a defender and challenger in an after-tax replacement study.

 Determine the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and its relation to MARR.

 Use a spreadsheet to perform an after-tax PW, AW, or ROR analysis.

 Evaluate alternatives using after-tax economic value-added analysis (EVA).

 Understand the tax impact of selected tax laws in countries outside the United States.

BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

 To serve as an introductory professional course for engineering students taking up

electrical engineering.
 To develop the student’s logical thinking in solving linear circuit analysis problems using
modern engineering techniques.
 Apply the sinusoidal function force response of RLC circuits.
 Determine the application of the steady state frequency of domain analysis of RLC circuit
driven by sinusoidal voltage/current source.
 Define the basic electrical quantities; system units; circuits components.
 Identify the electric charge and electric current and learn what their basic formulas are.
 Differentiate the kinds of currents and voltages and learn how to compute and solve their
values using basic formulas.
 Define what is electromotive force (emf)
 Define electrical resistance and resistivity
 Identify the common types of resistors
 Identify the different factors that affects the resistance such as temperature, size and
types of materials used.
 Learn how to apply ohm’s and network theorems and laws in solving electric circuits.
 Define electric and heat energy
 Learn how to measure the current, voltage and electric power.
 Analyze series, parallel, series-parallel and parallel-series electrical circuits.
 Identify the sources of supply in series or parallel
 Learn the general aspects of cells and batteries.

 Familiarize the general types of measuring instruments.

 Learn the uses of the measuring instruments

 Learn the resistance bridge circuits.

 Define magnetism and magnetic fields

 Learn the concept of electromagnetism

 Learn the general magnetic circuit law

 Know the tractive force of an electromagnet

 Define leakage flux

 Learn the demagnetizing procedure

 Identify a sinusoidal waveform characteristics and measures.

 Mathematically analyse a sinusoidal wave form
 Use a phrasor to represent a sine wave
 Express complex numbers in rectangukar and polar forms
 Determine voltages and currents in simple AC circuits
 Determine impedance for R, L and C circuit elements.
 Determine voltages and currents in simple AC circuits using impedance concept.
  Determine the resonant frequency and bandwidth of a simple series or parallel circuit.

 Determine the voltages currents and power of elements in a resonant circuit.

 Sketch the impedance, current and power response curves of a series resonant circuit.

 Find the quality factors Q of a resonant circuit and use Q to determine the bandwidth for
a given set of conditions.

 Explain dependence of bandwidth on the L/C ratio and on R for both a series and a
parallel resonant circuit.

 Design a resonant circuit for a given set of parameters.

 Convert a series RL networks into an equivalent parallel network for a given frequency.

TOPIC 2

 Basic electrical ideas and units

 Electric charge and electric current
 Kinds of current
 Kinds of voltage
 Electromotive force
 Electrical resistance and resistivity
 Common types of resistors
 Factor affecting
 Ohm’s law and Networks theorems and laws
 Electric and heat energy
 Current, voltage and electric power measurement
 Circuit connections
 Source connections
 General aspect of cell and batteries.

 General types of measuring instruments

 Uses of measuring instruments
 Resistance Bridge circuits
 Magnetism and magnetic fields
 Natural and artificial magnets
 Magnetic poles and magnetic fields
 Electromagnetism
 Magnetic circuit
 Tractive force of an electromagnet
 Leakage Flux
 Demagnetising procedure

 The sinusoidal waveform

 Sinusoidal voltage sources
 Sinusoidal voltage and current values
 Angular Measurement of a sine wav
 The sine wave
 The impedance concept

 Series resonance
 Quality factor, Q
 Impedance of a series resonant circuit
 Power, bandwidth and electricity of a series resonant circuit.
 Series to parallel RL and RC conversion.
 Parallel Resonance
 Circuit analysis using computers