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6. MULTI-OBJECTIVE, INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN AND OPERATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY

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Author:
Solo, Christopher James
Title:
MULTI-OBJECTIVE, INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN AND OPERATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
supply chain
uncertainty
stochastic optimization
robust optimization
chance-constrained goal programming
File:
Download Solo--dissertation--3_Jun_09.pdf
Committee Members:
Arunachalam Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Susan H Xu, Committee Member

9. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND ROBUST PARAMETER DESIGN IN MULTIPLE STAGE MANUFACTURING FOR NANO-ENABLED SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS

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Author:
Yuangyai, Chumpol
Title:
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND ROBUST PARAMETER DESIGN IN MULTIPLE STAGE MANUFACTURING FOR NANO-ENABLED SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
two-level fractional factorial design
split plot
split block
multistage experiments
minimum aberration
File:
Download Dissertation_Chumpol_Yuangyai.pdf
Committee Members:
Harriet Black Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

11. An Evolutionary Game Model of Self-Deception and the Effect of Belief on Performance

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Author:
Achampong, Christina
Title:
An Evolutionary Game Model of Self-Deception and the Effect of Belief on Performance
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
collaboration
competition
hawk-dove
evolutionary dynamics
game theory
self-deception
File:
Download Christina__Achampong_MSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Eli Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

14. COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEM FOR PIPE WELDING

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Author:
Aquilina, Edward Osbourne
Title:
COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEM FOR PIPE WELDING
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
mechanized equipment
pipe welding
Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP)
sequencing operations
machine selection
File:
Download FINAL-Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Medeiros, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Jean Medeiros, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Thomas Traband, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

15. EXTENSION OF ISO 14001 ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE METAL CASTING INDUSTRY TO INCLUDE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

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Author:
Macht, Gretchen A
Title:
EXTENSION OF ISO 14001 ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE METAL CASTING INDUSTRY TO INCLUDE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
GHG
greenhouse gases
metal casting
foundry
environmental management system
ISO 14000
greenhouse gas emissions
GHG emissions
OPCAT
object-process methodology
OPM
File:
Download MS_IE_Thesis_Final_gam201.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

16. AN EVALUATION AND ECONOMIC STUDY OF ALTERNATIVE JET FUEL FROM JATROPHA CURCAS OIL

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Author:
Belot, Gaelle Teresa
Title:
AN EVALUATION AND ECONOMIC STUDY OF ALTERNATIVE JET FUEL FROM JATROPHA CURCAS OIL
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
hydrocracking
jatropha
alternative jet fuel
biojet fuel
File:
Download Master_Thesis_May_09.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andre Louis Boehman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

17. SOLVING THE SPLIT DELIVERY VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM

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Author:
Wilck, IV, Joseph Hubert
Title:
SOLVING THE SPLIT DELIVERY VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Applied Optimization
Mathematical Programming
Vehicle Routing
Split Delivery
File:
Download Wilck.pdf
Committee Members:
Tom Michael Cavalier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Michael Cavalier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Marc Eric Mcdill, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

19. A procedural validation for Affordance-based Finite State Automata (FSA) in Human-involved Complex Systems.

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Author:
Ransikarbum, Kasin
Title:
A procedural validation for Affordance-based Finite State Automata (FSA) in Human-involved Complex Systems.
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Affordance
Finite State Automata
Human-involved Complex Systems
Validation
File:
Download Thesis_Final_Kasin_Ransikarbum.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Donovan Koubek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

21. CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT METALCASTING GREEN SAND SYSTEM CONTROL AND MONITORING PROCESSES

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Open Access
Author:
Green, Melinda E
Title:
CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT METALCASTING GREEN SAND SYSTEM CONTROL AND MONITORING PROCESSES
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Metalcasting
Foundry
Green Sand
Statistical Process Control
Green Sand Control
Quality Control
File:
Download melinda_green_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

22. The Development of a Physiological Based Sampling Pump for Exposure Assessment

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Author:
Lin, Ming-I
Title:
The Development of a Physiological Based Sampling Pump for Exposure Assessment
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
artificial neural network
sampling pump
ergonomic
ventilation
exposure assessment
File:
Download Dissertation_ML_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Andris Frievlads, William A Groves, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Arthur Groves, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Henry Challis, Committee Member
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

23. DATA MINING AND NETWORK MINING APPROACH FOR SIGNIFICANT PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION IN GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY

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Author:
Madireddy, Manini
Title:
DATA MINING AND NETWORK MINING APPROACH FOR SIGNIFICANT PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION IN GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Mass Spectrometry
Diabetes
Gene Filtering
Complex Networks
Systems Biology
Biological Networks
Protein Interaction Network
Bariatric Surgery
File:
Download Madireddy_Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

27. THE FORMALISM OF AFFORDANCE IN HUMAN-MACHINE COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS USING FINITE STATE AUTOMATA (FSA)

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Author:
Kim, Nam Hun
Title:
THE FORMALISM OF AFFORDANCE IN HUMAN-MACHINE COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS USING FINITE STATE AUTOMATA (FSA)
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
affordance
finite state automata
human-machine systems
formalism
File:
Download final_draft_print.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard Allen Wysk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Drs Richard A Wysk And Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Member
David J Hall, Committee Member
Dongmin Shin, Committee Member

29. A Nonlinear Queueing-Based Planning and Scheduling Framework for Multi-Product Supply Networks

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Author:
Caliz Ospino, Rodrigo Alberto
Title:
A Nonlinear Queueing-Based Planning and Scheduling Framework for Multi-Product Supply Networks
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Production Planning
Robust Scheduling
Multi-class Stochastic Networks
Optimal Control
File:
Download Rodrigo_Caliz-PhD_Dissertation_Final_Version.pdf
Committee Members:
Soundar Kumara, Constatino Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alberto Bressan, Committee Member
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

30. Disruption and Operational Risk Quantification and Mitigation Models for Outsourcing Operations

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Author:
Bilsel, Ragip Ufuk
Title:
Disruption and Operational Risk Quantification and Mitigation Models for Outsourcing Operations
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
chance constraints
multicriteria optimization
Supply chain risk
extreme vale distributions
File:
Download RUB-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Arunachalam Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Douglas J Thomas, Committee Member

31. A MULTIPLE-ITEM MULTIPLE-CONSTRAINT INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION AND SUPPLIER SELECTION MODEL UNDER LEAD TIME DEMAND UNCERTAINTY

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Author:
Zhu, Rongjia
Title:
A MULTIPLE-ITEM MULTIPLE-CONSTRAINT INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION AND SUPPLIER SELECTION MODEL UNDER LEAD TIME DEMAND UNCERTAINTY
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
supplier selection
Inventory control
uncertainty
File:
Download Master_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

32. The Implementation of Statistical and Forecasting Techniques in the Assessment of Safety Intervention Effectiveness and Optimization of Resource Allocation

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Author:
Oyewole, Samuel Adekunle
Title:
The Implementation of Statistical and Forecasting Techniques in the Assessment of Safety Intervention Effectiveness and Optimization of Resource Allocation
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
incident rate forecasting
safety factors
intervention effectiveness
resource allocation
incident rates
safety intervention
File:
Download Samuel_Oyewole_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joel B Haight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Cannon, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
R Larry Grayson, Committee Member

33. SIMULATION BASED COMPARISON OF PUSH VERSUS PULL PRODUCTION IN A HARDWOOD DIMENSION MILL

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Author:
Gill, Satinder S
Title:
SIMULATION BASED COMPARISON OF PUSH VERSUS PULL PRODUCTION IN A HARDWOOD DIMENSION MILL
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Hardwood Dimension Mill
Manufacturing
Simulation
Push-Pull System
File:
Download Satinder_S_Gill_IE_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Deborah Jean Medeiros, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Jean Medeiros, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Ray Sr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

35. BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF HAND GRIP MOTION FOR OPTIMAL HANDLE DESIGN USING A CADAVER MODEL

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Author:
Park, Shihyun
Title:
BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF HAND GRIP MOTION FOR OPTIMAL HANDLE DESIGN USING A CADAVER MODEL
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Hand tool design
Flexor tendon force
Grip force
Hand Biomechanics
File:
Download PARK_PhD_Diss_eTD.pdf
Committee Members:
Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Cannon, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Neil Sharkey, Committee Member

36. COMPUTER-AIDED GENERATION OF MODULARIZED CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS WITH ASSEMBLY AND VARIETY CONSIDERATIONS

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Author:
Gupta, Saraj
Title:
COMPUTER-AIDED GENERATION OF MODULARIZED CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS WITH ASSEMBLY AND VARIETY CONSIDERATIONS
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Modularity
Conceptual Design
Design for Assembly
Design for Variety
Computer-aided Design
Functional Basis of Design
Design Repository
File:
Download SarajGupta_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Gul Kremer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

37. Improved Heat Treatment Process Control For Fuel Efficiency And Cycle Time Reduction

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Author:
Karnezos, Thomas C.P.
Title:
Improved Heat Treatment Process Control For Fuel Efficiency And Cycle Time Reduction
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
heat transfer modeling
heat treatment
process control
fuel efficiency
infrared sensor
gas flow
File:
Download Tom_Karnezos_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

38. THE MODELING OF A SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM INDUSTRIAL ROBOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF EFFICIENT PATH PLANNING

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Author:
Carter, Tyler James
Title:
THE MODELING OF A SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM INDUSTRIAL ROBOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF EFFICIENT PATH PLANNING
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
industrial robot
path efficiency
energy consumption
travel distance
process time
File:
Download Tyler_Carter_-_Thesis_-_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

39. THE EFFECTS OF NON-CONTACT ACOUSTIC VIBRATIONS ON THE SOLIDIFICATION AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF DUCTILE AND GRAY CAST IRON

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Author:
Grenko, Timothy Michael
Title:
THE EFFECTS OF NON-CONTACT ACOUSTIC VIBRATIONS ON THE SOLIDIFICATION AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF DUCTILE AND GRAY CAST IRON
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
vibration
ultrasonic treatment
cast iron
solidification
File:
Download Timothy_Grenko_Thesis_eTD.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

40. An Investigation on the Importance of Design form and Function: Market Success and Consumer Preference

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Author:
Kim, Taehyun
Title:
An Investigation on the Importance of Design form and Function: Market Success and Consumer Preference
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
design
form
function
market success
consumer preference
File:
Download PSU_Thesis-Taehyun_8_4_09.pdf
Committee Members:
GÜL E Okudan Kremer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gul Kremer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

42. Multi-Objective Decision Support System for Global Supplier Selection

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Open Access
Author:
Wadhwa, Vijay
Title:
Multi-Objective Decision Support System for Global Supplier Selection
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Multi-objective Optimization
Supplier Selection
Outsourcing
File:
Download vijay_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Charles David Ray Sr., Committee Member

44. OPERATION READINESS LEVEL (ORL) ASSESSMENT USING MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING (MCDM) METHODS

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Open Access
Author:
Kocaman, Veysel
Title:
OPERATION READINESS LEVEL (ORL) ASSESSMENT USING MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING (MCDM) METHODS
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
ORL
MCDM
AHP
LINMAP
DEA
Lp Metrics
Borda Count
Readiness
Ranking
Scaling
Normalization
File:
Download Kocaman_thesis_ORL_Assessment.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor