Spring 2027

Engineering Economic Analysis

Engineering Economic Analysis covers financial accounting, cost systems, and the use of accounting reports for economic decision-making, including DCF, CVP, and capital budgeting.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Tina Xu

Homeworks were straightforward and the group project was mostly graded on completion. Exams were open note, allowing students to refer to materials during testing.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply discounted cash-flow analysis to evaluate proposed capital investments

  • Recognize, formulate, and analyze cash-flow models

  • Explain model results to managers and other non-specialist decision makers

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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(MATH 217, 221, or concurrent enrollment), graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

ISYE 313 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

HANNAH SILBER is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JOHN LEE is recorded teaching in Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SINAN TAS is recorded teaching in Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2012, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TERRY MANN is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

VICKI BIER is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 510
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 170
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 170
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 170

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Tina Xu

Tina Xu’s lectures were described as well-organized and containing all the information needed to complete homework and perform well on exams.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 62.3% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.29 GPA, 55.3% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.61 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=60 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Tina Xu

Homeworks were straightforward and the group project was mostly graded on completion. Exams were open note, allowing students to refer to materials during testing.

Past student reviews · Tina Xu

A student criticized Tina Xu for reading directly off slides, being unable to clarify questions, and testing on terminology and concepts never covered in class.

Topics

  • Financial accounting principles and cost systems
  • Interpretation of accounting reports for engineering economics
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis, DCF, flexible budgeting, transfer pricing, and capital budgeting

Skills

  • Applying discounted cash-flow analysis to evaluate capital investments
  • Formulating and analyzing cash-flow models
  • Explaining financial model results to non-specialists
  • Conducting cost-volume-profit analyses, flexible budgeting, and transfer pricing

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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ISYE 313 · Spring 2027

Engineering Economic Analysis

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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