DEBRE TABOR UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY,
Department of mechanical engineering

Industrial Management and Engineering Economy (Meng 5322) Final exam

Program : Regular (5th Year Eeng.) Instructor: Mr. Solomon T. and Mr. Dinesh v.
Admission: Undergraduate Degree Date: June/13/2017
Total Time: 3: 00 Hours Total Mark: 35 Marks

Name: _______________________Section: ________ ID.No__________

General Directions

Write your name and ID on the top of each sheet you use for rough work &final answers.
Attempt all the questions.
Use both sides of the sheet for your answers.
Highlight all the needed results.
Any kind of cheating leads to score penalty.

For instructor use only

PART I (5%) PART II (30-%) Total (35%)
6% 13% 7% 4%
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PART-I Briefly Explain the following Questions
1. Assume you are assigned as a project manager for an Abay Dam, in order to provide better
management control,how you are going to divide this big project in to different phases of
project. What are the phases and explain briefly.(5 Marks)
PART-II work out

1. Debretabor university electrical engineering department receive students in every year after
completing their pre-engineering program. The table below has the data which shows the
number of studentsreceived in each year correspondingly. By using the data given below
to determine a) the least squares trend line, and b) predict the number of students for 2010
year. (6 Marks)
Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Number of Students 100 110 122 130 139 152 164
2. You and several friends are about to Assemble a CPU. The tasks to be performed, their
immediate predecessors, and their estimated durations are as follows:
Task Task description Task that must precede Time
A Hard disk ___ 30 minutes
B Ram & Rom A 5 minutes
C Graphics card ___ 2 minutes
D Operating system C 3 minutes
E Version of O.S ___ 7 minutes
F DVD/CD E 25 minutes
G Operating software ___ 15 minutes
H USB G 10 minutes
I Chip design 2D/3D H 2 minutes
J Connect the devices I,F,D,B 10 minutes
K Select the frame design ___ 15 minutes
L Assemble J,K 30 minutes
Based on the above data

a) Construct the project network for preparing this dinner(3Marks)

b) Find all the paths and path lengths through this project network. Which of these paths
is a critical path? (2Marks)
c) Find the earliest start time and earliest finish time for each activity(3 Marks)
 d) Find the latest start time and latest finish time for each activity(3 Marks)
e) Find the slack for each activity. Which of the paths is a critical path? (2Marks)
3. Engineer Daniel is planning to construct transformer manufacturing company project.
Daniel has determined that 10 tasks/activities would need to be performed to carry out the
project. Using the PERT three-estimate approach, Daniel has obtained the estimates in the
table below for how long these tasks/activities will take. Also shown are the precedence
relationships for these tasks.
Activity Immediate Time required
Predecessors Optimistic Most likely pessimistic
A ___ 4 week 6week 8week
B A 1 5 5
C A 3 3 3
D A 4 5 6
E B 1 1 2
F D 3 4 5
G C,E,F 1 2 5
H A 5 6 7
I H 3 3 5
J G,I 3 5 7
a) Construct the project network for this project. (2 Marks)
b) Find the estimate of the mean and variance of the duration of each activity. (2Marks)
c) Find the mean critical path.
d) Find the approximate probability of completing the project within 25 weeks.(3 Marks)
4. A person deposits a sum of $ 100,000 at the interest rate of 15% compounded annually
for 9 years. Find the maturity value after 9 years. And Constructing Cash Flow
Diagram. (4 Marks)

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