ME 443 ENGINEERING ECONOMY AND
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(SPRING 2013)
COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Prof. Dr. Mustafa İlhan GÖKLER
(Mech.Eng. Dept.F-202 and METU-BİLTİR CENTER Main Building)
COURSE ASSISTANT
Araş. Gör. Mehmet YALILI
(Mech.Eng. G Blok No 116/Fluid Mechanics Lab)
COURSE GRADING
Midterm (35%), Final (40%), (*)Term Project (20%), (**)Attendance (5%).
*TERM PROJECT
The students who have taken a grade less than 65/100 from the term project, will not be
able to take the final exam according to METU Undergraduate Education Regulation
Articles 23 and 24.
**ATTENDANCE
Attendance is compulsory. The students who will have not attended at least 70% of the
lectures, will not be able to take the final exam according to METU Undergraduate
Education Regulation Articles 23 and 24.
REGULAR EXAMINATIONS
Examination dates, hours, and places will be announced later. All examinations will be
closed book and notes. The midterm and the final exam will be of multiple-choice type.
The students, who miss the midterm examination without valid excuses approved by the
related departments or have the midterm exam result less than 40/100, will not be able to
take the final exam according to METU Undergraduate Education Regulation Articles 23
and 24.
TEXTBOOK
John A. White, David B. Pratt and Kenneth E. Case, "Principles of Engineering Economic
Analysis", 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons.
REFERENCES
1. Chan S. Park, "Contemporary Engineering Economics", Prentice Hall.
2. William G. Sullivan, E.L. Wicks, Luxhoj J.T., "Engineering Economics", Prentice Hall.
3. Blank and Tarquin, "Engineering Economy", Mc Graw-Hill.
4. E. Paul Degarmo, John R. Canada, William G. Sullivan, "Engineering Economy", Collier
MacMillian.
5. Joseph C. Hartman, “Engineering Economy and the Decision Making Process”,
Prentice Hall.
6. Bierman, Bonini and Hausman, "Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions", Irwin.
7. Levin and Kirkpartrick,"Quantitative Approaches to Management", McGraw Hill.
8. Benjamin W. Niebel and Alan B. Drapper, "Production Design and Process
Engineering", McGraw Hill.
9. Raymond R. Mayer, "Production Management", McGraw Hill.
10. Ray Wild, "The Techniques of Production Management", Holt Rinekort Winston.
11. A.H. Taha, "Operations Research: An Introduction", Macmillan.