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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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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