Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

BAETE Accredited

ASSIGNMENT SHEET

Marks Assignment No 01

Allocated Obtained Course Code EEE 422

Ethics, Engineering Economics
Course Title
and Management
Course Instructor Md. Munir Hasan
10 Due Date 14 Nov 2021

Submission Date 14 Nov 2021

Student ID Student Name

Problem

The people of Bijli village are deprived of commercial grid electricity supply and they are solely
dependent on kerosene lamp for their lighting needs at night. Needless to say, that they can’t
use electric fans, oven or, air conditioner in their houses. There are 32 households in the village
and each household has got 3 rooms on an average. You are asked to implement a Solar Power
Project in the village Bijli for providing electricity to the villagers.

01. Please prepare the Project Charter and Work Break-down Structure (WBS) for the project
capturing all the major tasks in details and show the duration of each task, start and end
date of the tasks and type of human resources allocated for the tasks. The project will have 4
major tasks on a high level: 1) Solution Design, 2) Funding Arrangement, 3) Procurement, 4)
Implementation and 5) Commissioning and Project Closure.

02. For the procurement of the solar system, you will have to run a procurement process with 4
vendors and select a supplier for the solar system. You will have to prepare your own
weightage matrix following the given criteria. The following information is given, for you to
select the supplier and rank the suppliers:

Major Selection Criteria:

Sl# Criteria Relative Score Weight
1 Efficiency
2 Initial investment
3 Operating Cost
4 Reliability

Score/Rating for different values of the set criteria:

Criteria 1 2 3 4 5
Efficiency 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
>15k BDT>10k
Initial Investment >30k BDT>25k BDT >25k BDT>20k BDT >20k BDT>15k BDT BDT >10k BDT
Operating Cost >3K BDT>2.5k BDT >2.5k BDT>2k BDT >2k BDT>1.5k BDT >1.5k BDT>1k BDT >1k BDT
Reliability 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

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Score of the bidders as per their submitted offer:

Bidders Efficiency Initial Investment Operating Cost Reliability

South East Corp. 50% 22k BDT 1.2k BDT 80%
Bright Star Corp. 90% 26k BDT 2.2k BDT 60%
Rising Sun Corp. 70% 12k BDT 2.6k BDT 70%
Monsoon Corp. 40% 16k BDT 1.7k BDT 60%

Please select the supplier and rank all the suppliers.

Solution

(1) Defining design requirements

(2) Mathematical design

(3) Design verification using simulation

(4) Design modification, if any

(5) Performance analysis / investigation

(6) Addressing Complex Engineering Problems

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Attributes of Complex Addressing the complex engineering problems in the
Engineering Problems project
Depth of knowledge
WP1
required (WK3-WK5, WK8)
Range of conflicting
WP2
requirements
WP3 Depth of analysis required
WP4 Familiarity of issues
WP5 Extent of applicable codes
Extent of stakeholder
WP6
involvement
WP7 Interdependence

(7) Impact of outcome on the environment and sustainability

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