Like many STEM-savvy Huskies, John Ruf came to Michigan Tech to study mechanical engineering. When he arrived on campus from the Chicago suburb of Orland Park back in 2016, Ruf’s passion for economics ...

What caused the Industrial Revolution? It’s a perennial question that economic historians love to debate, with answers varying from geographic to institutional to ideological explanations. And a new ...

When Jeanne Knight's husband was recently interviewing for a mechanical engineering job, he was asked what the letters "E" and "I" stood for in a bending equation for a structural beam. Once he ...

THE study of economics is of great importance to everyone. We should all know something about capital and interest, and sinking funds and depreciation. The question is whether we should be taught this ...

Introduces engineering cost concepts, financial statements and the corporate economic environment. Includes concepts and methods of analysis of the time value of money, project cost estimation, cash ...

THIS was the title of a paper presented on March 25 before a joint meeting of the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers by Sir Frank Gill, who explained that his purpose was to ...