Cordial Road Landfill

Peter L. Jackson

School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

Cornell University

Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation Synthesis Coalition for Engineering Education.

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Cordial Road Problem Statement

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Abstract

Cordial Road Landfill is a case study in the economic analysis of an landfill investment decision. The name of the company has been disguised.

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Related Topics

Cash Flow Analysis
Risk Analysis
Conditional Probability Trees
Expected Net Present Value
Multi-Attribute Decision Making
Environmental Concerns

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Background Assumed

Net present value analysis

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Duration of Exercise

Exercise can be conducted in a 2 hour microcomputer laboratory session. Typically, two students per microcomputer team.

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Supplementary Lecture

Teaching assistants usually explain conditional probability trees as part of laboratory exercise.

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Software Requirements

Microsoft Windows 3.1
Toolbook Runtime v.1.5

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Copyright

Public domain. Modify as you wish.

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Assessment

Student reviews have been mixed. Some students found the exercise to be too simple-minded.

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Files

To download the zip file, click here: cordial.zip (84789 bytes). Contents:

cordhand.doc
Handout for students to fill in answers to exercise. (Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 format)
cordial.tbk
Tutorial exercise describing case study and student exercise. (Asymmetrix Toolbook v. 1.5)
cordwork.xls
Simple spreadsheet to aid in computing cash flow (use is optional) (Microsoft Excel v. 2.1d)
cordial.txt
This note. (ASCII text)

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Peter L. Jackson /March 18, 1996 / pj16@cornell.edu