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Author:

Lee, Yooneun

Title:

Robust planning and execution

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data Envelopment Analysis
Productivity index
Feedback algorithm
Prevention programs
Healthcare engineering
Operating room scheduling
Robust optimization

File:

Download YooneunLEE_dissertation_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V. Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vittaldas V. Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Mort D. Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Ji Eun

Title:

MODELING, ESTIMATION, AND OPERATIONAL POLICIES FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE WITH TEMPORAL MOTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Time-pressure reactivity
time management
human factors
temporal motivation

File:

Download Diss_JieunKim_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Gul E. Kremer, Committee Member
Stanley Gully, Outside Member

Author:

Srinivas, Sharan

Title:

Analytics-Driven Design of Multi-Phase Multi-Provider Appointment System for Patient Scheduling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

patient scheduling
open access
multi-phase multi-provider
scheduling rules
appointment system design
hybrid appointment system
data analytics
machine learning
patient no-shows

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_SharanS.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. A. Ravi Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. A. Ravi Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. M. Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Dr. Vittal Prabhu, Committee Member
Dr. Dennis K. J. Lin, Outside Member

Author:

Sung, Yi Shan

Title:

NETWORK ANALYTICS AND MACHINE LEARNING: APPLICATIONS TO ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

network analytics
machine learning
healthcare analytics
online social networks
dominance attribute
community detection
provider order recommendation system
length of stay
remaining length of stay
classification
prediction

File:

Download phd_thesis_yishan.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Member
LiYing Cui, Special Member

Author:

Sung, Kiseok

Title:

MODELING ONE-HANDED THUMB TOUCH PERFORMANCE FOR MOBILE DEVICES: Extending Fitts’ Law by Incorporating Grip Span and Hand Anthropometry

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Human Performance Modeling
Fitts' Law
User Experience
Human Computer Interaction
Human Factors

File:

Download Kiseok_Sung_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Frank Edward Ritter, Outside Member

Author:

Kweon, Sang Jin

Title:

LOCATION OF ALTERNATIVE-FUEL REFUELING STATIONS ON TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS CONSIDERING VEHICLE DEVIATIONS AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Alternative-fuel vehicles
bi-criteria optimization
GHG emission reduction
Facility location
Refueling station
Tree network
Deviation-flow
Polynomial-time algorithm

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_-_Sang_Jin_Kweon_-_Submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose A. Ventura, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose A. Ventura, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vittaldas V. Prabhu, Committee Member
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member
Venky N. Shankar, Outside Member

Author:

Agrawal, Deepak

Title:

ESSAYS IN HEALTHCARE MODELING AND ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

appointment scheduling
healthcare analytics
preference based scheduling
markov decision process
no-show
multi-priority
network model
risk prediction
physician scheduling

File:

Download Deepak_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rajendran, Suchithra

Title:

Platelet Inventory Management in Blood Supply Chains

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Platelet wastage
stochastic integer programming
heuristic ordering policies
blood supply chain
genetic algorithm

File:

Download Suchi_Rajendran_Dissertation_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

A. Ravi Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Ravi Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vittal Prabhu, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Jeanne Lumadue, Outside Member

Author:

Xiao, Xinyi

Title:

AUTOMATIC TOOLPATH GENERATION FOR HETEROGENEOUS OBJECTS MANUFACTURED BY DIRECTED ENERGY DEPOSITION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneous material Object
Toolpath
Directed Energy Deposition process

File:

Download Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay B Joshi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yovanoff, Mary A

Title:

The Development and Validation of a Dynamic Haptic Robotic Trainer for Central Venous Catheterization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Surgical Training
Haptic Feedback
Internal Jugular Catheterization
Self Efficacy
Medical Education
Robotic Training

File:

Download Yovanoff_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nadig, Adithya

Title:

Distributed Control of a Parcel Delivery System through Crowdsourcing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Crowdsourcing
Parcel Delivery System
Auction
Genetic Algorithm
Distributed Algorithm
Distributed Arrival Time Controller

File:

Download Nadig_Thesis_Crdsrcing_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Dinda, Shantanab

Title:

Designing a Mobile Application for Evaluating Manufacturability of Parts Using Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

3D printing
Additive Manufacturing
Mobile Application
Manufacturability Analysis
Voxel-based Models
Voxelization
Build Time Estimation
Cost Estimation

File:

Download Shantanab_Dinda_MSIE_SU17_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Handayani, Dika

Title:

THE MACHINABILITY OF AUSTEMPERED DUCTILE IRONS (ADI)

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

ADI
Austempered Ductile Iron
Machining
Machinability

File:

Download Dissertation_8-10-17.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Robert Voigt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Robert Voigt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Edward De Meter, Committee Member
Dr. Jingjing Li, Committee Member
Dr. Guha Manogharan, Outside Member
Dr. Kathy Hayrynen, Special Member

Author:

Zhou, Yuhang

Title:

FUNCTIONAL LIMIT THEOREMS FOR SHOT NOISE PROCESSES WITH DEPENDENCE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Shot noise process;
functional weak law of large numbers;
functional central limit theorems;
dependent shot noise

File:

Download YZhou-MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Guodong Pang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Jae Hyun

Title:

The Biomechanical, Physiological, and Cognitive Effects of Active Workstations and Utilizing Anthropometric Data to Improve the Usability

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Anthropometry
Biomechanics
Physiology
Active Workstations
Sedentary Behavior
Office-Related Task Performance

File:

Download JayCho-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
David Nembhard, Committee Member
Melissa Jean Bopp, Outside Member
Liza S Rovniak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

He, Xiao

Title:

Modeling and Analysis of Cross-Docking using Queuing Theory

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Cross-dock; Warehouse
Synchronization; Fork/join Queuing Model; MVA

File:

Download Thesis_Xiao_He_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pang Guodong, Committee Member
Janis P. Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Roh, Byeong Min

Title:

Ontology-based Metamodeling and Data Mining for Metal Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
ontology
thermal model
visualization
network

File:

Download Master_thesis_Byeong-Min_Roh_Dec._2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy W. Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Jing

Title:

SIMULATION ABOUT RESILIENCE OF THE TEAM IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

team resilience
efficiency of teams
emergency department
perturbation

File:

Download Jing_Wang_thesis_21.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yiqi Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Latorella, Marc Duane

Title:

Evolving Intelligent Control Rules For A Collaborative Multi-Agent Manufacturing Cell

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-Agent Systems
Collaborative
Evolutionary Learning
Intelligent Control

File:

Download 120417-Latorella-EvolvingICMAS.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodon Pang, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Michael Saunders, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yuqin

Title:

Lattice Structure: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Lattice structure
Homogeneous
Safety Factor
Truss

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Joshi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mohan, Tharun

Title:

Improve Food Supply Chain Traceability using Blockchain

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

food supply chain
food tracebility systems
blockchain

File:

Download Improve_Food_Supply_Chain_Traceability_using_Blockchain.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Harrison, Committee Member
Janis Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yiou

Title:

OPTIMAL CONTROL, DIFFERENTIAL VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO TRAFFIC SCIENCE, REVENUE MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY CHAINS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Control
DVI
DTA
Revenue Management
Supply Chain

File:

Download Yiou_Wang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Terry L. Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry L. Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member
Alberto Bressan, Outside Member

Author:

Kan, Chen

Title:

Dynamic Network Modeling and Analysis of Large-scale Internet of Things with Manufacturing and Healthcare Applications

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Internet of Things
Process monitoring
Dynamic network
Cardiovascular diseases
Parallel computing
Control chart
Statistical process control
ultraprecision machining
Medical automation
Smart and connected health

File:

Download Dissertation_ChenKan_20180105.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Jingjing Li, Committee Member
Lin Lin, Outside Member

Author:

Lim, Sunghoon

Title:

EVENT DETECTION AND PREDICTION USING ONLINE USER GENERATED DATA

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Text Mining
Social Media Analytics
Online Data Analytics
Event Detection
Event Prediction

File:

Download Dissertation_SunghoonLim_IEPHD.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Nilam Ram, Outside Member

Author:

Zhou, Yuhang

Title:

FUNCTIONAL LIMIT THEOREMS FOR NON-STATIONARY STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Functional limit theorems
Maximal inequalities
Infinite-server queue
Non-stationarity

File:

Download YZ-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Outside Member

Author:

Dalvi, Sourabh Prabhakar

Title:

THE VALUE OF FLEXIBILITY IN ELECTRICITY MARKETS FROM GAS TURBINE UPGRADES: A STOCHASTIC MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Stochastic Optimization
Power System
Electricity Markets
Unit Commitment
Flexibility

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Sourabh.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Kaul, Chaitanya

Title:

An agent based and ant colony metaheuristic approach to the last mile logistics problem

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Antcolony
agentbasedmodelling
metaheuristics
optimization
simulation
lastmilelogistics

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Chaitanya.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Antion Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dong, Yi

Title:

Generalized method of moments approach for hyperparameter estimation for Gaussian Markov random fields

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Generalized method of moments
Gaussian Markov Random Field
Discrete Optimization via Simulation
Maximum Likelihood Estimation

File:

Download Yi_Dong_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eunhye Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Golhar, Abhijeet Dagdu

Title:

PRODUCIBILITY OF COMPOSITE POSITION TOLERANCE SPECIFICATIONS FOR PATTERNS OF HOLES AND EVALUATION OF MACHINE ACCURACY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Composite position tolerance
Producibility of composite position tolerance variants
Machine Accuracy

File:

Download Abhijeet_Golhar_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

El-Amine Lehtihet, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Demeter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ansaripour, Afrooz

Title:

Multi-leader-follower games of freight service pricing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Freight service pricing
Oligopoly
Stackelberg game
bi-level optimization
revenue management
equilibrium problem with equilibrium constraints

File:

Download Afrooz-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Terry L. Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member
Terry L. Friesz, Committee Member
Mort D. Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Ruimin

Title:

Heterogeneous Recurrence Analysis of Vectorcardiogram Signals

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneous recurrence analysis
Vectorcardiogram
Processing monitoring and control

File:

Download MSThesis_RuiminChen_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Charania, Rahim Karim

Title:

PREDICTING AND MODELLING THE STATISTICAL LIKELIHOOD OF CARDIAC INCIDENTS USING THE COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Survival Analysis
Cox Regression Models
Kaplan-Meier Curves
Cardiac Events
Heart Disease
Prediction
Statistical Modelling
Reliability Engineering
Survival Analysis
Cox Regression Models
Kaplan-Meier Curves
Cardiac Events
Heart Disease
Prediction
Statistical Modelling
Reliability Engineering

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Rahim.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dhamodharan, Aswin

Title:

Product Life Cycle Optimization Models for Closed Loop Supply Chains

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

closed loop supply chains
network design
optimization models
pricing strategy
product life cycle
bass model
capacity planning

File:

Download Dissertation_AswinDhamodharan.pdf

Committee Members:

A Ravi Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A Ravi Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Member
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Eunsik

Title:

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GAMIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ENGINEERING LAB ACTIVITIES BASED ON USER CENTERED DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

gamification
engineering education
self-determination theory
structural equation modeling

File:

Download Dissertation_Draft_Eunsik_Kim_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Starkey, Elizabeth Marie

Title:

Formalizing the Role of Product Dissection on Creativity and Learning in Engineering Education

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product dissection
creativity
learning
engineering education
design fixation
fixation
eye tracking

File:

Download Starkey_Dissertation_August_6_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Samuel Todd Hunter, Outside Member

Author:

Smith, William Thomas

Title:

Scheduling Analysis of Stored Combat Load Retrieval Using Monte Carlo Sampling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Scheduling
Monte Carlo
Ammunition
Stored Combat Load
Parallel Machine Scheduling
Army
Military

File:

Download Smith_William__IndEng_PhDV2_August2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Michael Andrew Yukish, Special Member

Author:

Li, Jingwen

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF VISUAL CUE USAGE IN A MULTIPLE-POINT TIME-TO-CONTACT TASK

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Time-to-contact
Search Strategy
Visual cue usage
Scanpath
Machine Learning

File:

Download Jingwen_Li_-Dissertation_V2.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Outside Member

Author:

Thirumurugan, Pragadeesh Selvam

Title:

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF TEAM COMMUNICATION AND SUPPLY CHAIN INTERACTIONS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Social Network Analysis
Network Analysis
Network Theory
Supply Chain Interactions
Team Communication
Team Work
Team Communication in Manufacturing Industry
Organizational Behavior
Supply Chain Communication
SNA

File:

Download Pragadeesh_Selvam_Thirumurugan_SNA.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kakarlamudi, Sai Phanindra

Title:

DEADSTOCK INVENTORY IDENTIFICATION AND DISPOSITION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Dead Stock
inventory management software
SAP

File:

Download Deadstock_Inventory_Identification_and_Disposition.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr.Vittal Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr.Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Dr.Robert Voigt, Committee Member

Author:

Xie, Yue

Title:

On addressing nonconvexity, stochasticity and complementarity in mathematical optimization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

nonconvex optimization
stochastic optimization
statistical learning
algorithm
variational inequality
robust optimization

File:

Download Yue_Xie-Disseration_finalsubmitted_.pdf

Committee Members:

Uday V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Uday V Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member
Ethan Fang, Committee Member

Author:

Jennings, Connor Patrick

Title:

Forecasting Technical and Functional Obsolescence for Improved Business Processes

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

obsolescence
life cycle
obsolete
DMSMS
machine learning
obsolescence risk
ROC
Receiver operating characteristic
cell phone
camera
screens

File:

Download Connor_Jennings_-_Penn_State_Dissertation_2018__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Janis P Terpenny, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member

Author:

Hoffman, Michael L

Title:

Condition-based Maintenance Policy Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms and Gaussian Markov Improvement Algorithm

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

condition-based maintenance
maintenance optimization
genetic algorithm
gaussian markov improvement algorithm

File:

Download Hoffman_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eunhye Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Brundage, Committee Member

Author:

Chumongkhon, Visanu

Title:

ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEW ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text Classification
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modeling
Online Review Analytics
Support Vector Machine
Convolutional Neural Network
VADER

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Visanu_Chumongkhon.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Duan, Lisha

Title:

Coordinated Supplier Selection, Inventory Replenishment, and Pricing Decisions in Supply Chain Management

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Supply chain management
Supplier selection
Integrated inventory planning
Length of time period
Price-sensitive demand
Logit demand function
Decentralized supply chain
Game theory

File:

Download Disseration_Lisha_Duan.pdf

Committee Members:

José A. Ventura, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
José A. Ventura, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Huanan Zhang, Committee Member
Saurabh Bansal, Outside Member

Author:

Sheth, Sureel Shreyas

Title:

Identifying and Mitigating Maverick Spend at Penn State Purchasing Services

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Maverick Spend
Purchasing Services
P-card
SRFC
Mitigation Strategies

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Harrison, Committee Member

Author:

Heininger, Katie Julia

Title:

Individual Differences and Creativity in the Engineering Design Process

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Creativity
Engineering Design
Industrial Engineering
Idea Generation
Concept Screening
KAI
PCS
Problem Solving

File:

Download Heininger_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Jablokow, Committee Member

Author:

Sharedalal, Rutvik

Title:

AMAZON FINE FOOD REVIEWS - DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text mining
Text classification
Online consumer reviews
Review helpfulness
Word embedding

File:

Download MS_Thesis_rns26.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere: A Novel Distribution Manufacturing Framework

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Manufacturing process
Shape descriptor
Do-It-Yourself

File:

Download Liu_Meng_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Peck, William

Title:

PLANNING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION: A MODEL BASED SIMULATED ANNEALING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Simulated Annealing
Systems Dynamic Modeling
Integer Programming
Resource Allocation Problem
Simulation Modeling
Metaheuristics
Mathematical Programming
Job Shop

File:

Download Peck_MS_Thesis_Final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel A. Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ilgun Guler, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member

Author:

Titus, Richard

Title:

An Integrated Supplier Selection Model with Product Life Cycle Considerations

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Supplier Selection
MCDM
Product Life Cycle
Goal Programming
Math Programming
case study

File:

Download Titus_Thesis_3_20_19_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

A. Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
El-Amine Lehtihet, Committee Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Committee Member
Felisa Preciado Higgins, Outside Member

Author:

Lopez Bencosme, Christian Enmanuel

Title:

PERSONALIZED ADAPTIVE GAMIFICATION SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE AND MOTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Gamification
Machine Learning
Player type
Perzonalization

File:

Download Dissertation_IME_PhD_ChristianLopez.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S. Tucker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Freivalds Andris, Committee Member
Conrad S. Tucker, Committee Member
Thomas A. Litzinger, Outside Member

Author:

Matenga, Zvikomborero

Title:

The design of electricity markets in developing economies: A Differential Games and Optimal control methods application

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Electricity Markets
Developing Economies
Differential Games
Optimal Control Methods

File:

Download Zvikomborero_Matenga_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Janis P Terpenny, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Qiushi Chen, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member
Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Xue

Title:

HIGH DIMENSIONAL STATISTICAL LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

High Dimensional Learning
Statistical Learning
Decision Making
Optimization

File:

Download Xue_Wang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member

Author:

Cui, Shisheng

Title:

STOCHASTIC VARIATIONAL & HIERARCHICAL PROBLEMS: MODELS, ALGORITHMS, AND APPLICATIONS TO TRANSMISSION EXPANSION PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

variational inequality
generalized equations
transmission expansion
stochastic optimization

File:

Download Shisheng_Cui-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Uday V. Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mort D. Webster, Committee Member
Huanan Zhang, Committee Member
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Member
Benjamin F. Hobbs, Special Member

Author:

Yao, Bing

Title:

Physical-Statistical Modeling and Optimization of Complex Systems - Healthcare and Manufacturing Applications

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Physical-statistical modeling and optimization
Spatiotemporal regularization
Sequential decision making
Energy-efficient mobile sensing
Multifractal analysis
Quality control
Additive Manufacturing
Inverse ECG modeling

File:

Download BingYao_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member
Soraya M Samii, Special Member

Author:

Na, Hyeong Suk

Title:

STUDIES IN LARGE-SCALE EVACUATION NETWORK FLOW STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION UNDER SOCIAL INFLUENCE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Cell transmission model
departure time choice model
social influence
large-scale hurricane evacuation
joint chance constrained program
sample average approximation
Large-scale evacuation network flow model
Cell Transmission Model
Joint chance constrained program
Sample average approximation
Departure time choice model
Social influence
Capacity drop
Hurricane evacuation strategy

File:

Download HyeongSukNa_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet Serhat Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Outside Member

Author:

Zheng, Xuan

Title:

Towards A Theoretical Understanding of Creative Concept Screening in Engineering Design Industry

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Concept Screening
Risk-Taking
Ownership Bias
Engineering Design Industry
Creativity
Creative Climate

File:

Download Xuan_Zheng_Dissertation_0712_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Kathryn Jablokow, Outside Member

Author:

Davaasuren, Dolzodmaa

Title:

Analysis of Opioid Related Adverse Events and Signal Detection with Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Opioid drugs
Adverse Drug Events
Adverse Drug Reactions
Drug-Drug Interaction

File:

Download FInal_thesis_DD.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Voigt, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Ning

Title:

DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data-Driven Modeling
Interpretable Machine Learning
Healthcare Analytics
Drug-Drug Interactions
Patient Satisfaction

File:

Download NingLiu-Dissertation-FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Hong En

Title:

Towards Optimized Feedback and Performance Metrics for Simulation-Based Needle Insertion Training

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

surgical training
eye-tracking
needle insertion
simulation-based training
haptic feedback
skill acquisition

File:

Download Hong-En_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Carson Mccomb, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Outside Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
David C Han, Special Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wan, Wendian

Title:

ALGORITHMS FOR OPERATION OF POWER SYSTEMS: RISK, UNCERTAINTY, DISCRETENESS, AND NONCONVEXITY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

stochastic programming
economic dispatch
power system optimization
nonconvex optimization

File:

Download Wendian-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Mort D Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Chen, Cheng Bang

Title:

RECURRENCE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE AND MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Recurrence Analysis
Nonlinear Dynamics
Pattern-Frequency Tree
Network Science
Space-Filling Curve
Complex system
Healthcare
Manufacturing

File:

Download phd_thesis_chengbang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member
Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khan, Haris Ali

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICRO FRICTION STIR BLIND RIVETING FOR MULTILAYER THIN DISSIMILAR MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

multilayer thin sheets joining
mechanical behavior
microstructure characterization
process-structure-property linkage
online quality monitoring
grain boundary engineering

File:

Download Dissertation_draft_Haris_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jingjing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingjing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Jing Du, Outside Member
Scott Miller, Special Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alamoudi, Hassan

Title:

Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare: A cardiovascular case

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Healthcare
Cardiovascular

File:

Download Hassan_Alamoudi-MS_Thesis_Dec_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Special Signatory

Author:

Mahmoud, Line

Title:

A Mean-Field Game With Customer Admission Control

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Queueing Theory
Game Theory
Mean Field Games
Admission Control
Threshold Policy
Stochastic Processes
Simulation

File:

Download LineMahmoud-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guodong Pang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Runsang

Title:

Self-organizing network modelling of 3D objects

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Computer-aided design
Shape matching
Network modelling
object recognition

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Haizhou

Title:

Explore the Potential of Reinforcement Learning: Dosing Control and Sketch Generation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Reinfocement Learning
Heparin Dosing Control
Sketch Generation
Data-Driven Method
Q-Learning
Continuous Action Space
Attribute Selection

File:

Download Wang_Thesis_Final_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair
Hui Zhao, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Wei, Yupeng

Title:

Data Fusion for Quality Monitoring and Degradation Modeling of Complex Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

data fusion
additive manufacturing
degradation modeling
fault detection
deep learning

File:

Download Dissertation_Yupeng_Wei.pdf

Committee Members:

Janis Terpenny, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janis Terpenny, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Outside Member
Dazhong Wu, Special Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Mutong

Title:

Dynamic Physician-patient Matching in the Healthcare System

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

waiting time
matching theory
dynamic
demand-supply ratio

File:

Download MSThesis_MutongChen_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shi, Xiaochen

Title:

Correlation between NASA-TLX, Task Performance and Physiological Measurements in MATB-II

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Mental Workload
NASA-TLX
Physiological measurements
Task Performance

File:

Download Xiaochen_Shi_Thesis_v4.0.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Yiqi Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Qiu, Zihang

Title:

markov decision-making process for risk reduction strategies in breast cancer

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Markov Chain
Markov Decision Making Process
Breast Cancer
Hierarchical Gaussian Process
Missing Data Imputation
Treatment Policy
Transition Probability

File:

Download Zihang_Qiu-Thesis45.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member

Author:

Xie, Jingyi

Title:

Using Metamodeling to Approximate Cost-Effectiveness Acceptability Curves of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Metamodeling
Cost-effectiveness Acceptability Curve
Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis
Cost-effectiveness Analysis

File:

Download Jingyi_Xie_thesis_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiushi Chen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
John M. Carroll, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kore, Rugved

Title:

Development and Evaluation of Anti-Vibration Toolkit for a Pneumatic Blueberry Handheld Harvester

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Ergonomics
Vibration
Reduction
Human Factors
Evaluation
dosimeter
AV
AV handle
AV gloves
Agriculture
Blueberry Harvester
Hand-arm
HAVS
Hand arm vibration syndrome

File:

Download RK_thesis_03_13.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Sida

Title:

Sepsis Data Analytics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Machine learning
Deep learning
Sepsis
Healthcare
Unsupervised Learning
Data Mining

File:

Download Thesis_Sida_Shen_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member

Author:

Sabbineni, Navya

Title:

Understanding Employee Attrition Using Explainable AI

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Explainable AI

File:

Download Navya_Thesis_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Shi, Chao

Title:

Eye-Tracking and Situation Awareness Predicting the Malfunctions in Dynamic Control Tasks with a Mathematical Model for Different Age Groups and Interactive Devices

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Eye-tracking
Mathematical Modeling
Human Factors

File:

Download Shi_dissertation__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yazdandoost Hamedani, Erfan

Title:

Primal-Dual Methods for Saddle-Point Problems with Applications to Decentralized Constrained Convex Optimization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

saddle-point problem
primal-dual algorithm
decentralized optimization
convex optimization
time-varying network

File:

Download Dissertation_Manuscript_Erfan.pdf

Committee Members:

Necdet S Aybat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jalilzadeh, Afrooz

Title:

Variance-reduced First-Order Methods for Convex Stochastic Optimization and Monotone Stochastic Variational Inequality Problems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Stochastic Optimization
Convex Optimization
Stochastic Approximation
Nonsmooth Optimization
Stochastic Variational Inequality

File:

Download Afrooz_Jalilzadeh_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Imani, Farhad

Title:

Sensor-based Modeling and Analysis of Advanced Manufacturing Systems for Quality Improvements

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence
Smart Manufacturing
Machine Learning
Process Monitoring and Control
Quality Control

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Farhad_Imani.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zokaeinikoo, Maryam

Title:

Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Models to Detect Chronic and Infectious Diseases

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Interpretable
Deep learning
Alzheimer's
COVID-19
Attention mechanism

File:

Download Interpretable_Artificial_Intelligence_Models_to_Detect_Chronic_and_Infectious_Diseases_FINAL_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Qiushi Chen, Committee Member
Akhil Kumar, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Pei, Shenli

Title:

Data-driven learning and modeling of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite
micro X-ray Computed Tomography
microstructure informatics
mechanical property

File:

Download Dissertaion_SP_Final_2020_Summer.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Outside Member
Danielle Zeng, Special Member
Jingjing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jingjing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Cong

Title:

Understanding the Effects of Automated Vehicles on Commuter’s Acceptance of Commute Time

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Automated Vehicles
Commute Time

File:

Download Cong_Zhang_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yiqi Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bukenberger, Jesse

Title:

Latent Factor Approximating Models for Stochastic Optimization: Applications to Power System Planning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Transmission Planning
Stochastic Optimization
Principal Components Analysis
Large-Scale Optimization
Discrete Optimization
Approximation Methods
Clustering Methods
Energy Systems
Planning

File:

Download Bukenberger_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Steven J Greybush, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shin, Hyunjong

Title:

ANALYTICAL AND EMPIRICAL MODELS FOR PROCESS TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS SMARTER MAINTENANCE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Smart Maintenance
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
System Interaction
Business Process
Business Process Transformation
Human Centered System

File:

Download HJSHIN_Dissertation_04132021.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Paul Marshal Griffin, Committee Member
Suvrat Saurabh Dhanorkar, Outside Member
Felisa Preciado Higgins, Special Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jo, Jihyun

Title:

Vehicle Routing Problems in a Megacity

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Vehicle routing problem
Markov Decision Process
Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
Genetic Algorithm
Approximate Backward Induction
Heuristics
Megacity logistics

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sharma, Pallavi

Title:

OPTIMIZING TRUCK SCHEDULING MODEL FOR OFFICE OF PHYSICAL PLANT (OPP)

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Truck scheduling
Association Rule Mining
Apriori Algorithm
Optimization
Truck-sharing

File:

Download MSThesis_Sharma_Pallavi.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven James Landry, Committee Member
Olga Pak, Committee Member

Author:

Xiao, Xinyi

Title:

Automatic Process Planning For a Five-Axis Additive Hybrid Manufacturing System

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Hybrid Manufacturing
Process Planning
Automation
Additive Manufacturing

File:

Download Automatic_Process_Planning_For_a_Five-Axis_Additive_Hybrid_Manufacturing_System_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Joshi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Joshi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mojahed Yazdi, Reza

Title:

A HYBRID DEEP LEARNING MODEL OF PROCESS-BUILD INTERACTIONS IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Wavelet Analysis
Process Monitoring
Texture Analysis
Additive Manufacturing
Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Data Analysis
Machine Learning

File:

Download Reza_Mojahed_Yazdi_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Alzayed, Mohammad Khaled

Title:

An exploration of the role of empathy in engineering design education

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

empathy
engineering education
design
creativity
teams

File:

Download Alzayed_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jessica Dolores Menold, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Outside Member
Christopher Carson Mccomb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Carson Mccomb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Peng

Title:

Confidence Regions for Response Surface Optima based on Parametric and Nonparametric Models

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Response Surface Methodology
Regression
Random Processes
Optimization
Statistical Inference

File:

Download Dissertation_Peng_Chen_08252020.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Del Castillo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member
Wen Shen, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shu, Xianhao

Title:

Using Eye Tracking Metrics To Estimate Mental Workload : A Pilot Study Based on MATB-II Tasks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

mental workload
pupil
fixation
saccade
MATB-II

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yiqi Zhang, Committee Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bauer, Denise Helen

Title:

A Recommendation for the Backpack Load Limit of Middle School Students Based on Physiological and Psychophysical Measurements

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

children and backpacks
backpack load limits

File:

Download DeniseHelenBauer.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leah C Newman, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Richard J. Koubek, Committee Member
John Henry Challis, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Wenjing

Title:

Statistical learning of dynamic transportation models

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Statistical learning
Kriging
Dynamic traffic assignment
Dynamic network loading
Dynamic user equilibrium
Big data

File:

Download Dissertation_final-Wenjing_Song.pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Terry Lee Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Vikash V. Gayah, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Vinayak Uday Shanbhag, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Hang

Title:

On Active Learning Methods for Manifold Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Active Learning
Manifold Learning
Design of Experiment
High-Dimensional Data Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation_Final__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Del Castillo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Qiushi Chen, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Garza, Angela

Title:

INTEGRATING OPTIMIZATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - AGENT BASED MODELING FOR OPTIMAL WORKFORCE PLANNING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

agent-based modeling
workforce planning
system dynamics
multi-objective mathematical programming
artificial intelligence
optimization

File:

Download Garza_Final_Dissertation_20191205.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jay Dean Martin, Special Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Akhil Kumar, Outside Member
Daniel A. Finke, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Julaiti, Juxihong

Title:

Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

stochastic scheduling
job shop scheduling
optimal control
reinforcement learning

File:

Download Dissertation_Juxihong_Julaiti.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Outside Member
Bicheng Chen, Special Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor