About the Author

Francis J. Hopcroft has been teaching environmental and civil engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, since January 1994. Prof. Hopcroft has taught engineering economics for over 10 years and has taught numerous professional registration preparatory classes on the same subject. He has developed a concise way of looking at equations and factors and setting up economic problems to make the solutions, and the ultimate decision between options, fast and easy.