Transforming Engineering Economy into a Two-Credit Course

Engineering Economy has been part of many American engineering university core curriculums for decades. It is considered vital to the Professional Engineer and has remained about 3 to 8% of the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam for decades. However, engineering curriculums are getting packed with new topics and over the decades there have been changes to what faculty consider important. As such, Stevens Institute of Technology recently modified its curriculum from a 4 credit engineering economics course to a 2 credit engineering economics course, which must also instruct Project Management. This new 2 credit course will be taught for the first time in the 23-24 academic year. This article discusses the modifications undertaken to make this new course a reality.