Engineering applications of equilibrium, centroids, moments of inertia. Additional instruction will be given on the integration between data manipulation, data presentation, and technical communication of results using word processing and presentation software. Techniques, including classical optimization, linear and nonlinear programming, network theory, critical path methods, simulation, decision theory, and dynamic programming, are applied with the aid of personal computers to a variety of civil engineering problems. Additional discussion and work will cover how the management of projects and programs can be influenced by various planning and design issues.
Emphasis is on the decision-making process followed by corporate financial managers.
Topics include the time value of money, financial planning, capital budgeting, and cost of capital. Basic techniques of decision analysis applied to problems in business and economics, with an emphasis on production problems. Techniques include modeling and optimization of deterministic and non-deterministic systems. Major topics will include safety, engineering responsibility and ethics, basic problem solving techniques, and teamwork. Use of optical level, theodolite, EDM, total station.