1. An Introduction to Cost Engineering. 2. Defining the Engineering Problem. 3.Planning for the Future. 4. Capital Cost Estimates. 5. Operating Costs. 6. Cost Indexes. 7. Economy of Scale. 8. The Time Value of Money. 9. Depreciation and Asset Valuation. 10.Financing Capital Costs. 11. Financial Management for Operations. 12. Utility Service Revenues and Rate Making. 13. Financial Management for Engineering Projects.14.Optimization of Linear Models. 15. Optimization of Nonlinear Problems. 16. Building and Fitting Statistical Models. 17. Experimental Methods for Engineering Optimization.18. Designing under Uncertainty. 19. Monte Carlo Simulation. 20. Designing for Safety and Reliability. 21. References and Recommended Reading. 22. Appendix A- Staged Construction for Linear Growth. 23. Appendix B – Economy of Scale Factors. 24. Appendix C - Factors for Economic Calculation. 25. Appendix D - Interpreting the LINGO Solution Report. 26. Appendix E – Generating Random Numbers in Excel. Index.
Paul Mac Berthouex is Emeritus Professor of civil and environmental
engineering at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked
for 29 years. Awards and honors include the Rudolph Hering Medal
(1975 and 1995) from ASCE, and Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal (1971)
from the WPCF, and the Radebaugh Award (189 and 1991) from the
Central States WPCA. He is a member of the University of Iowa
Distinguished Alumni Academy. Work experience includes Chief
Research Engineer for GKW Consult, (Mannheim. Germany), consultant
to UNDP, UNESCO, WHO, and TVA, project manager of Asian Development
Bank Projects in Korea and Indonesia, treatment plant design in
Nigeria and Samoa, visiting professor in England, Denmark, New
Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, India, and Indonesia. He is co-author
of eight books, 200 papers and technical reports, and was graduate
advisor to almost 100 graduate students.
Linfield C. Brown is Emeritus Professor and former chairman of
civil and environmental engineering at Tufts University. He taught
courses on water quality modeling, water and wastewater chemistry,
industrial waste treatment, and engineering statistics, and was the
recipient of the prestigious Lillian Liebner and Seymour Simches
Awards for excellence in teaching and advising. He has served as
consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement. He is the author
or co-author of over 60 technical papers and reports, has offered
over two dozen workshops in the US, Spain, Poland, England, and
Hungary on water quality modeling with QUAL2E, and is the co-author
of five books on statistics and pollution prevention and control.
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