Gerald W. Smith
American engineer
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Gerald W. Smith's Degrees
- Masters Aerospace Engineering Stanford University
- Bachelors Electrical Engineering California Institute of Technology
Why Is Gerald W. Smith Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerald W. Smith was the American author of "Engineering Economy: Analysis of Capital Expenditures" the textbook used by several generations of Industrial Engineering college students from around the world. He is an Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa where he was a Professor of Industrial Engineering from 1956 to 1988. He received degrees in Engineering from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science in 1952, Masters of Science in 1958, P.H.D. in 1961. His 1958 masters theses was entitled "The Obsolescence Allowance in Equipment Replacement Decisions" and his 1961 P.H.D. dissertation "Regulatory Policies on Liberalized Depreciation and Their Effects Upon Public Utilities."
Gerald W. Smith's Published Works
Published Works
- Can Violence Be Predicted? (1972) (131)
- Engineering economy: Analysis of capital expenditures (1979) (58)
- Using Feature Films as the Primary Instructional Medium to Teach Organizational Behavior (2009) (56)
- Development of Leadership Capacities in Children (1981) (8)
- Illinois Junior-Community College Development, 1946-1980. (1980) (7)
- Mateism: Simulating Decision Making in Marriage Formation. (1979) (6)
- Comparing the Effectiveness of Ten Capital Investment Ranking Criteria (1986) (6)
- Computer automated marriage analysis (1979) (5)
- Mass producing intelligence for a rational world (1983) (4)
- Evaluating the New “Investment Tax Credit/Depreciable Basis” Options (1983) (3)
- Payoff Period : An Inverted Rate of Return? A Note (1962) (3)
- The Value of Life (1977) (3)
- Automating University Teaching by the Year 2000 (1993) (3)
- MATESIM: Computer Assisted Marriage Analysis for Family Therapists (1985) (2)
- The Personal Computer as Marriage Counselor (1985) (2)
- What Are the Functions of a Community College? (1950) (1)
- Sound an Alarm (1968) (1)
- "Crimesim": A Computer Simulation Model (1979) (1)
- Reader's Forum A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GRADIENT SERIES USED IN ENGINEERING ECONOMY STUDIES (1979) (1)
- A Review Of “AN EVALUATION OF INVESTMENT CRITERIA” By S. Scott Sutton The George Washington University 1968 229 pp. (1969) (0)
- Hidden meanings: A psychological dictionary (1975) (0)
- Design for Economy: Must It Be For Longer Product Life? (1961) (0)
- A review of: “ENGINEERING ECONOMY, 4th. Ed.” By E. Paul DeGarmo The Macmillan Company 1967 532 pp. $10.95. (1968) (0)
- APPLYING THE TECHNIQUES OF ENGINEERING ECONOMY to the SELECTION OF LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES (1959) (0)
- A Review of: INTRODUCTORY ECONOMICS (Student Manual) by N. TOWNSHEND-ZELLER and J. A. Portney: Cognitive Systems Incorporated, Beverly Hills, Cal (1971) (0)
- Decreasing Utility for Money and Optimal Corporate Debt Ratio (1968) (0)
- BENEFIT-COST RATIOS: A WORD OF CAUTION /AND DISCUSSION/ (1963) (0)
- Regulatory policies on liberalized depreciation and their effects upon public utilities (1961) (0)
- THE SCORE AT TWENTY (1975) (0)
- PREPAYMENT OF INCOME TAX: A “SPREADSHEET” ANALYSIS (1986) (0)
- ENGINEERING ECONOMY CASE STUDIES (1975) (0)
- A Review of: “Economics. Dell'Ingegneria” by Dino Zanobetti, Casa Editrice Patron, 40127 Bologna, Quarto Inferiore, 19 76, 8500 Lira; Third Edition, 482 pages. (1977) (0)
- 20 CQ 4 U (1972) (0)
- What Is the Role of the State Principals' Associations and Other State Professional and Lay Organizations in Promoting Life Adjustment Education? (1953) (0)
- Analogies of Cash Flow Concepts (1968) (0)
- Teacher's manual for engineering economy : analysis of capital expenditures (1987) (0)
- A review of: “Because of space and other considerations the books listed next are not being reviewed for The Engineering Economist.” They nonetheless warrant the attention of our readers. (1972) (0)
- Experienced Teachers and New Methods (1950) (0)
- What the Community College Is Doing about the Program of Life-Adjustment Education (1951) (0)
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