You need to choose a "cool" technology that is relevant to your engineering degree. 

Examples:

• Buying a Tesla
• Upgrading from a gas furnace to a heat pump
• Installing an assembly robot
• Wind farm vs gas power plant

Make a PowerPoint presentation with the benefits and costs. The benefits and costs can be utilized with any of the concepts. For example: NPV uses the first costs and then the revenues so the benefits and costs are part of the analysis.

Make the presentation visually appealing (i.e. use pictures, graphs, color, etc).

Outline of the presentation:

1) Name and engineering degree

2) Summary of upgrade

3) Identification of key factors in benefit/cost analysis

4) State key assumptions based on some research (these will be estimates)

5) Perform benefit/cost analysis

6) Final recommendation on performing the upgrade

7) The last slide should be your sources

 

Grade will be based on student's use of analysis, critical thinking, use of technology, communication methods, and engineering economics content.