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CVEN 322 – Systems 2020

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Abigail Stason

Lectures and Notes – 2020a

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Class 1
Monday
1/13

SORRY, BUT VIDEOS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE THIS SEMESTER.  TAKE NOTES DURING CLASS AS IN ALL YOUR OTHER CLASSES.

MP4

Class 1.pdf Introduction to course
Display of cash transactions – tables and cash flow diagrams
How interest works as time progresses
Examples of interest earned and paid over time
Class 2
Wednesday 1/15

MP4
Class 2.pdf Economic shorthand notations
Use of economic equations and tables
Present, Future, Annual, Gradient
F = P[F/P,i,n] P = F[P/F,i,n] A = P[A/P,i,n] True, actual, effective, real yearly interest rate calculation vs. Nominal interest rate
Equivalence
Class 3
Friday 1/17

MP4
Class 3.pdf Rule of 72,
Loans, payments, how to solve general economic problems, non-standard cash flows, effective interest rates, annual payment cash flows, gradients.
Class 4
Wednesday
1/22
MP4 Class 4.pdf More solutions to various economic problems.
Class 5
Friday
1/22
MP4 Class 5.pdf Internal rate of return.  Capitalization.  Old quiz problems.  Summaries of what can be asked and found in equivalence problems.  Comparisons of projects using Present Worth Analysis and Equivalent Annual Worth Analysis.
Class 6
Monday
1/24
MP4 Class 6.pdf Comparison of projects with unequal lives.  Comparisons using annual benefits/costs.  When Annual Worth Analysis SHOULD be used.  Demonstration when Present Value Analysis gives wrong results when comparing two projects.
Class 7
Wednesday
1/27
MP4 Class 7.pdf Internal Rate of Return.  Minimum Attractive Rate of Return.  Various problem solutions (solve for A, P, non-standard cash flows, etc.)  Comparison of projects with equal lives.  Comparing projects with unequal lives.  Benefit to cost ratio analysis.  Internal rate of return analysis.  Minimum attractive rate of return.  Interest saved if pay back a loan early.  Should you refinance your project?
Class 8
Friday
1/29
MP4 Class 8.pdf Break-even analysis.
Class 9
Monday
2/3
MP4 Class 9.pdf Payback Period. Depreciation. Straight line, Sum-of-the-year’s-digits, MACRS depreciation.
Class 10
Wednesday
2/5
MP4 Class 10.pdf More MACRS depreciation.
Corporate and individual taxes.
Class 11
Friday
2/7
MP4 Class 11.pdf Before and after-tax rate of return.
Real property depreciation. Before and after inflation rate of return, Bonds, intermediate values of financial instruments, sell/buy prices, IRR for bonds, refinancing,
Class 12
Monday
2/10
MP4 Class 12.pdf Tools for optimization of engineering problems, bolted plate problem, solution by EXCEL, EES
Optimization by EES and EXCEL
Class 13
Wednesday 2/12
MP4 Class 13
Footing
IRR
Manholes
Bolted plate solution using Excel, using EES solution in class.
Other solutions for your consideration:  Footing solution.  Internal rate of return solution and use of EES for integration, Number of manholes solution.
Class 14
Friday
2/14
MP4 Class 14 Notes Review of use of EES and Excel solver.  Solution for optimum depth for which to install a footing.
Class 15
Monday
2/17
MP4 Class 15 Notes Introduction to Linear Programming. Graphical solutions to linear programming problems.Steps to problem solving of all kinds!
Optimization by Linear Programming
Class 16
Wednesday
2/19
MP4 Class 16 Notes See notes
Class 17
Friday
2/21
MP4 Class Notes See notes
Class 18
Monday
2/24
MP4 Class Notes See notes
Class 19
Wednesday
2/26
MP4 Class Notes See notes
Class 20
Friday
2/28
MP4 Class Notes See notes
Class 21
Monday
3/2
MP4 Class Notes See notes
Class 22
Wednesday
3/4
Quiz A Quiz A Quiz A covers nothing but engineering economics, no liner programming, Excel, or EES..
Class 23
Friday
3/6
MP4 Class Notes Hauling dirt and gravel.  Sample solution using MOR.  Balanced and unbalanced supply and demand problems.
Class 24
Monday
3/16
MP4 Class Notes Engineering job assignments – balanced, excess jobs, excess workers.  Time dependent manufacturing problem.
Class 25
Wednesday
3/18
MP4 Class Notes Mining problem. Where to situate ambulances.
Class 26
Friday
3/20
MP4 Class Notes Where to build McDonald’s Burger joints.  Where to take solid waste through network.  How many outlets to build and where to site them for maximum profit.
The day our world changed
Class 27
Monday
3/23
Zoom class 27
Starts 17 minutes into the video.
Class Notes On 3/23/20, class 27, we started using Zoom for classes.  I was tinkering with it when class started at 17 minutes into the video.  I have no idea how to get rid of the 0 to 17 minutes on front of their recording, so just go to 17 minutes into the video where class began and play it from there.  This covers transportation networks and assigning jobs to people and review of a couple of other problems we worked before the world ended..
Class 28
Wednesday
3/25
MP4 Class Notes
Class 29
Friday
3/27
Quiz B Quiz B
Class 30
Monday
3/30
Zoom class 30
Starts at 31 minutes into the video.
Class 30 Notes
Class 31
Wednesday
4/1
Zoom class 31
Starts 18 minutes into the video
Class Notes Interarrival times for students.  How to get interarrival times.  How to get interarrival times in BOSS.  Hand solution for hauling dirt.  BOSS solution for hauling dirt 1.
Class 32
Friday
4/3
Zoom class 32 Class Notes BOSS solution for hauling dirt 2.
Class 33
Monday
4/6
MP4 Class Notes Simulation of Hamburger Shoppe
Week 12
Class 34
Wednesday
4/8
MP4 Class Notes Finish simulation of Hamburger Shoppe
Class 35
Monday
4/13
MP4 Class Notes Traffic intersection.
Class 36
Wednesday
4/15
MP4 Class Notes Finish traffic intersection
Class 37
Friday  4/17
MP4 Class Notes Dredging. Oil tankers.
Week 13
Class 38
Monday  4/20
MP4 Class Notes Dredging – finish
Class 39
Wednesday
4/22
MP4 Class Notes Oil tankers
Class 40
Friday  4/24
MP4 Class Notes Racing track
Week 14
Class 41
Monday
4/17
MP4 Class Notes Spray water on new subdivision roads
Class 42
Tuesday  4/28
MP4 Class Notes Pop quiz on what some code does.  Dig out a dozen or so errors in some code.  Shooting at an enemy sub.

The above links will be dead until we actually generate the notes and I get them posted.
Please email me if I forget to post a set: Lowery@tamu.edu

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