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Author:

Thorsen, Andreas Holger

Title:

Robust Optimization Models for Inventory Control Under Demand and Lead Time Uncertainty

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

robust optimization
inventory control
lead time uncertainty
demand uncertainty

File:

Download AndreasThorsen-Thesis-FINALVERSION.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Ventura, Committee Member
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Member
Terry Paul Harrison, Committee Member

Author:

Pazhani, Subramanian

Title:

design of closed loop supply chain networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

closed loop supply chains
refurbishing
recycling
network design
mathematical modeling

File:

Download Thesis_Final__Subramanian_Pazhani_.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Akhil Kumar, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Yuncheol

Title:

Information And Decision-making In Health Care: Modeling And Analysis

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

information theory
decision-making
Markov Decision Process
Data mining
healthcare
information theory

File:

Download Dissertation_YuncheolKang.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Ann Marie Kolanowski, Committee Member
Donna Marie Fick, Committee Member
Amy M Sawyer, Committee Member

Author:

Macht, Gretchen A

Title:

Modeling Psychometrics for Team Performance: Personality & Emotional Intelligence

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Team Performance
Psychometrics
Personality
Emotional Intelligence
Performance Modeling

File:

Download gamacht_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Arthur Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Michael Leicht, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Yuexi

Title:

Multiple Sourcing Effects in the Expansion of Panama Canal

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Multiple Sourcing

File:

Download Yuexi_Chen_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chang, Joonho

Title:

Biomechanical Analysis of the Index Finger Motion for Optimal Trigger Design Using Cadaver Experiments.

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Cadaver study
Trigger grip design
Triggering force
Trigger grip span
Handle grip span
and FDP to FDS tendon force ratio

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Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Sharkey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Neil Sharkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Cannon, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Hyun Min Mike Kim, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Jinkun

Title:

Development of a Model-free Hamiltonian Tracking Optimal Control Algorithm

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal control
Hamiltonian Tracking
Model-free algorithm

File:

Download Dissertation_JinkunLee.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Chia Yu Chang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member

Author:

Anand, Vidyuth

Title:

Energy-aware Models for Warehousing Operations

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Energy control
Queueing
Warehousing
Forklifts

File:

Download Vidyuth_Energy-aware_Models_for_Warehousing_Operations.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sim, Jaehun

Title:

Managing Supply Chain Sustainability through Microfinance and Recycling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Microfinance
Sustainable Supply Chain
Carbon Emission
and Energy

File:

Download Jaehun_Sim_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Douglas J Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Hui

Title:

User Centered Design of Visual Analytics and its Applications in Healthcare

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

User Centered Design
Visual Analytics
Information Visualization
Healthcare Informatics

File:

Download Dissertation-Hui_Yang.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Committee Member
Ravi Singareddy, Special Member

Author:

Gosnell, Christopher Andrew

Title:

Toward the development of methods to support creative concept selection in engineering design

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Engineering Design
Creativity
Concept Selection
Product Design
Engineering Education

File:

Download IE_Thesis_Gosnell_12_7.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Choi, Sung Hee

Title:

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) In Blood Supply Chain Management

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Bar-code
Radio Frequency Identification(RFID)
Blood Supply Chain

File:

Download MS-THESIS-FINAL-20141201.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Wonmo

Title:

A Framework for Set-based Manufacturing Analysis and Visual Feedback

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

manufacturing analysis
design for manufacturing
visual manufacturing feedback
set-based approach

File:

Download dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Member
Christopher J Saldana, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Daniel Antion Finke, Special Member

Author:

Kannan, Aswin

Title:

Distributed Algorithms for Optimization and variational Inequality Problems: Addressing competition, Uncertainty, And Misspecification

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Variational inequalities
distributed algorithm
stochastic approximation
pseudomonotone.

File:

Download Aswin-Kannan-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Member
Paul M Griffin, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Angelia Nedich, Special Member

Author:

Chi, Cheng

Title:

Mathematical Programming Approaches to Home Healthcare Nurse Routing Problem and Truckload Transportation Procurement via Combinatorial Auctions

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Mathematical Programming
Home Healthcare
Nurse Routing Problem
Truckload
Transportation Procurement
Combinatorial Auctions

File:

Download Dissertation_Cheng_Chi2.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Paul Griffin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Robert Alexander Novack, Committee Member
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Hyo Jung

Title:

Redesigning a Healthcare Delivery System: Integrated Analysis from Service Processes to System Structures

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Healthcare systems engineering
operations research in healthcare
patient flow
emergency department performance measure

File:

Download Dissertation___Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Harriet Black Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul M Griffin, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Kyoungrae Jung, Committee Member
Colleen M Rafferty, Special Member

Author:

Bober, Cynthia A

Title:

Modeling Student Satisfaction and Implementation of the I-C-D Method to Improve the Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Course Experience

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Engineering Education
Industrial Engineering
Student Satisfaction
I-C-D Method
Statistical Modeling

File:

Download CynthiaBober_MS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Carl Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet Black Nembhard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ma, Yu

Title:

Development of an Improved Algorithm for workpiece Localization of Raw Material

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Workpiece localization
machining allowance
point cloud

File:

Download Final_paper_Yu_Ma.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Sanjay Joshi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Choi, Sung Hee

Title:

BLOOD SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT BY AGENT BASED SIMULATION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Blood Supply Chain
Agent-Based Simulation modeling

File:

Download FinalThesis-Sung_Hee_Choi.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member

Author:

Gopinath Bharathi, Ajay

Title:

Knowledge Discovery of Gamification Features Relevant to Immersive Virtual Reality Environments

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Virtual Reality
Virtual Learning Environments
Immersive Virtual Reality Systems
Gamification
Game Design Elements

File:

Download Ajay_2015_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hanson, Thor Kristofer

Title:

Application of Trade Space Exploration and Sequential Decision-Making to Portfolio Management to Inform Army Equipping and Modernization Strategies

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Trade Space Exploration
Portfolio Management
Decision Making
Portfolio Decision Making

File:

Download Hanson_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Torres, Aineth

Title:

Multi-objective Decision Support System for Sustainable Supplier Management

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Supply Chain
Green Supply Chain
Procurement
Supplier
Sustainability
Eco-efficiency
Portfolio Management
Supply Risk

File:

Download PhDThesis_ATorres_Spring2015_eTDversion.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
Charles David Ray Sr., Committee Member
Paul M Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xuan

Title:

Inventory refill policies analysis models for two-echelon supply chain

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Inventory policy
supply chain
simulation

File:

Download Xuan_Li_Thesis_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zope, Saurabh Avinash

Title:

Multicriteria Approach to Spare Parts Inventory Problem with Obsolescence

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Inventory Management
Multicriteria Optimization
Continuous Review Policy
Compromise Programming
Efficient Frontier

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Saurabh_Zope.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wan, Wendian

Title:

Interior point schemes for mixed-binary quadratic programs: Computational investigations and applications to unit commitment problems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Interior point method
quadratic programming
mixed integer programming

File:

Download Wendian-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kominami, Masahito

Title:

Development of Optimization Method for Reheating Furnace Operation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Dynamic Programming
Optimization
Furnace control
Simulation
Heat transmission
Difference method

File:

Download Codes_of_billet_temperature_simulation__3D_.pdfDownload Codes_of_billet_temperature_simulation__2D_.pdfDownload Example_data_for_simulation.pdfDownload MS_Thesis__Masahito_Kominami__Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pathak, Abhishek Sanjay

Title:

Impact Of Hot Isostatic Pressing On Aluminum Casting Alloy E357

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Hot Isostatic Pressing
E357
Cast alloy
microporsity
size of silicon particle

File:

Download Thesis-Abhishek_Pathak.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Xue

Title:

SPARSE RECOVERY OF TIME-VARING STREAMING DATA USING HOMOTOPY METHOD

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

sparse recovery
regularation
online updating
homotopy

File:

Download xue_wang_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hu, Xiaocheng

Title:

DATA MINING ON CORPORATE FILLING BASED ON BAYESIAN LEARNING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

data mining
text analysis
Perl

File:

Download finalthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Hongcheng

Title:

nonsmooth optimization with applications in network design and machine learning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Nonsmooth optimization
machine learning
network design
folded concave penalty
sparse recovery

File:

Download HongchengLiu_new-Dissertation-copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Jeon, Hyun Woo

Title:

Manufacturing Energy Models based on Probabilistic Approaches

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

manufacturing energy
queueing energy models
probabilistic manufacturing energy

File:

Download Dissertation__Hyun_Woo_Jeon_.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Yishan

Title:

A MULTI-PERIOD MULTI-CRITERIA SUPPLIER SELECTION AND ORDER ALLOCATION MODEL UNDER DEMAND UNCERTAINTY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

order allocation
supplier selection
multi-period
multi-objective
shortage

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Munoz Soto, David Andres

Title:

Quality Improvement to Assess and Audit Complexity in Translational Research

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

quality improvement
translational research
analytic hierarchy process
goal programming
social network analysis

File:

Download Dissertation_vSubmitted_GradSchool_Final_v7.11.2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Harriet Black Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Deirdre Mccaughey, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Xijia

Title:

Analysis of Supply Chain Risk Vulnerability and Mitigation Strageties

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

supply chain vulnerability
mitigation strategy
goal programming

File:

Download master_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Iyer, Karthik Thyagarajan

Title:

Computational complexity of data mining algorithms used in fraud detection

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data mining
Complexity
Big O

File:

Download Thesis-Final_Karthik_Iyer.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yao, Luqi

Title:

Study On Bipartite Network In Collaborative Filtering Recommender System

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

recommender system; bipartite network; collaborative filtering;

File:

Download THESIS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Yuan

Title:

Markowitz Portfolio Optimization with Misspecified Covariance Matrices

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Markowitz Portfolio Optimization
ADMM
Machine Learning

File:

Download Yuan_Wang_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Necdet S Aybat, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Thiyagarajan, Rushmitha

Title:

Modelling Energy and Dairy Supply Chains

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Electricity and water trends
Energy Supply Chain
Dairy Supply chain
Distribution Network design
Greenhouse gas emissions

File:

Download Thesis_report.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Sai

Title:

cost-effectiveness of health care interventions

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

health care
cost-effectiveness
breast cancer
sofosbuvir

File:

Download Dissertation_Sai.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Griffin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member

Author:

Guo, Yuecheng

Title:

Unit Commitment with Electrochemical Storage: an Investigation of Dynamic Programming Schemes

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Unit Commitment
Electrochemical Storage
Dynamic Programming
Approximate Dynamic Programming

File:

Download Yuecheng-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Yunhang

Title:

Matrix Factorization Method For Lagre Recommendation System

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Recommendation system
Matrix Factorization

File:

Download Factorization_Matrix_for_Recommendation_Systems_-Yunhang_Li-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhao, Xiujie

Title:

Bayesian Two-stage Accelerated Life Tests under Distribution Misspecification

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Accelerated life testing
Bayesian ALT
Two-Stage Bayesian Design
Accelerated life testing
Bayesian ALT
Two-Stage Bayesian Design

File:

Download 1-Xiujie_Zhao_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Del Castillo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hutchison, Kenneth M

Title:

Spectral Top-n:a Computationally Efficient Top-n Algorithm for Big Data Analytics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Big Data
Statistics
Computer Science
Top-N
Recommender Systems
Spectral Analysis

File:

Download psuthesis710.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Daniel Antion Finke, Special Member

Author:

Guo, Sijia

Title:

Predictive Analytics of Patient Hospital Adverse Events after Colorectal Surgery

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Regression
Readmission
Mortality
Length of Stay
Complication

File:

Download Sijia_Guo_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vaghela, Saloni-dharmeshkumar

Title:

Walksafe: College Campus Safety App Incorporating Pebble Smartwatch

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Emergent Design
Safety
Location-based
WalkSafe
Emergecny notification
Wearable technology

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Saloni_Vaghela.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Patrick C Shih, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tuarob, Suppawong

Title:

Predicting Emotions from Temporal Physical and Behavioral Information

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Emotion Prediction
Forecasting
Machine Learning

File:

Download Tuarob-MSIE-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Inki

Title:

Preemptive Interventions to Increase Patient Safety by Using Behavior-based Feedback

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Surgical Training
Simulation-based Training
Skill Acquisition
Text Mining
Motion Analysis

File:

Download DISSERTATION_Submission_InkiKim.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member

Author:

Hatim, Qais Yahya

Title:

Integrating Sustainability in Manufacturing Process Planning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Sustainability
Process Planning
Simulation
Optimization
Methodology

File:

Download Qais_Hatim_Dissertation_July2015_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Saldana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
David R Riley Ii, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Sudarsan Rachuri, Special Member

Author:

Bastian, Nathaniel Drew

Title:

Multiple Criteria Decision Engineering to Support Management in Military Healthcare and Logistics Operations

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

multi-criteria decision engineering
resource allocation under uncertainty
performance measurement
healthcare
logistics

File:

Download Bastian_ND_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul M Griffin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet Black Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul M Griffin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Terry Paul Harrison, Committee Member
Lawrence V Fulton, Special Member

Author:

Davanloo Tajbakhsh, Sam

Title:

On Convex Optimization Methods for Fitting Spatial Statistical Models to Large Data Sets

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Convex Optimization
Gaussian Random Field
Spatial Statistics
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
ADMM.

File:

Download SamDavanloo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Del Castillo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member

Author:

You, Fan

Title:

Unit Commitment Problems: A Comparison of Algorithms and Heuristics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Unit Commitment
Dynamic Programming
PCA
Neural Networks

File:

Download FanYou-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Antonio Ventura, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Di

Title:

validation of controlling batch muller by energy dose

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

green sand
mulling energy
sand properties
sand related scrap

File:

Download Di_Wang-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lu, Hongyuan

Title:

Heavy Traffic Limits for Fork-Join Networks with Synchronization Constraints

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

fork-join networks
non-exchangeable synchronization
generalized Kiefer process
multiparameter sequential empirical process

File:

Download Dissertation_HongyuanLu.pdf

Committee Members:

Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Manfred Heinz Denker, Committee Member
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Chenxi

Title:

A DYNAMIC SUPPLY CHAIN INVENTORY MODEL CONSIDERING SUPPLIER SELECTION, JOINT REPLENISHMENT AND TRANSPORTATION COST

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Serial Supply Chain Multi-product Joint Replenishment Integrated

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Chenxi_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Antonio Ventura, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jiang, Yiran

Title:

Evaluation on the Accuracy of Multiple Machines using Composite Position Tolerances

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Composite Position Tolerance
Producibility
Accuracy

File:

Download THESIS_-_YIRAN_JIANG.pdf

Committee Members:

El Amine Lehtihet, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cho, Jae Hyun

Title:

USING AN UNDER DESK BIKE IN THE OFFICE WORKPLACE: A PILOT STUDY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Active Workstation

File:

Download JaeHyunCho-MasterThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Xu, Bei

Title:

Optimization of A Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Vehicle Routing Problem
Backhauls
MILP

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Bei_Xu.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Alexander Novack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yu, Mengyi

Title:

Supplier Selection Problem in Cross Docking Cold Chain

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Supplier Selection
Cold Chain
Cross Docking

File:

Download Supplier_Selection_Problem_in_Cross_Docking_Cold_Chain_Mengyi_Yu_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Yuda

Title:

Multi-criteria Approaches to Supplier Selection and Order Allocation with Quqntity Discounts

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Supplier selection
Goal Programming
Allocation problem

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Yuda_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tsai, Yi-chuan

Title:

A Statistical Approach to Improve Cash Flow Forecasting Accuracy

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Cash Flow Forecast
Accounts Receivable Aging
Stochastic Analytics
Markov chain

File:

Download Final_v5.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Ray Sr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janis P Terpenny, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chonde, Seifu John

Title:

A Methodology of Machine Learning in Automated Entity Summarization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

text mining
network science
diversity
science of science
entity summarization

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Joey W Storer, Special Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Paul M, Griffin, Committee Member
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Yuqi

Title:

OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS IN TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL AND MACHINE LEARNING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

optimization
dynamic network loading
machine learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Woodruff, Matthew John

Title:

Many Objective Visual Analytics: Decision Aiding Tools for Conceptual Design

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Decision Aiding
Many Objective
Conceptual Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Sung Woo

Title:

Bisociative design: concept exploration by mining design associations across multiple products

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

engineering design
product design
new product development process
text mining

File:

Download dissertation_final_Kang_IEPHD.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Lu, Yang

Title:

Error Characterization of EOS M280 Additive Manufacturing Machine

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
GD&T
Metrology
Powder Bed Fusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Yang Lu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Jinwei

Title:

On Distributed Optimization Methods for Solving Optimal Power Flow Problem over Electricity Grids

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Power Flow
Multi-agent Consensus Model
Distributed Optimization
Composite Convex Function
linearized ADMM
augmented Lagrangian

File:

Download JinweiZhang-MS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Necedt Serhat Aybat, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Chenmu

Title:

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INSTRUCTION MEDIA AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE BASED ON ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Instructional Media
EEG
Instructional Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Chenmu Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ma, Junfeng

Title:

A Sustainable Modular Product Design Approach with Key Components and Uncertain End-of-life Options Consideration

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Modular Product Design
Sustainability
End-of-Life
Optimization
Key Components

File:

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Committee Members:

Gul Kremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Charles David Ray Sr., Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member

Author:

Gopala Krishna, Athul

Title:

Workforce Planning Models for Distribution Center Operations

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Distribution Center
Decision Model
Workforce Capacity
Simulation

File:

Download Workforce_Planning_Models_for_Distribution_Center_Operations_Gopala_Krishna_Athul.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Shushu

Title:

Additive Manufacturing Processes For Fabricating A Mini Robot - Computational Models And Experimental Results

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Personalization product
3D printing machines
3D printing parameters
accuracy
tensile test

File:

Download Master_Thesis-Shushu_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Yan

Title:

pattern discovery: a progressive visual analytic system design to support categorical data analysis

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

visual analytics; progressive visualization; pattern discovery;

File:

Download YanLiu_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ahmadi, Hesamoddin

Title:

On the Analysis of Data-driven and Distributed Algorithms for Convex Optimization Problems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimization and learning
distributed optimization in power system
convex optimization
augmented Lagrangian

File:

Download HesamAhmadi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Min

Title:

MULTI-CRITERIA SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK DESIGN FOR FRESH PRODUCE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-criteria
supply chain network design
fresh produce

File:

Download Min_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ananthakrishnan, Vivek

Title:

Analysis of hourly weather forecasts as an indicator of outage characteristics in an electric power service system

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Electric Power
Outage
Predictive Analytics
Weather

File:

Download 1-Vivek_Ananthakrishnan_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Goyal, Raghav

Title:

Predictive Analytics for Enhancing Customer Service In Electric Utility

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Power outage
Electric utility
customer service
prediction model
logistic regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Adeinat, Hamza

Title:

SUPPLY CHAIN INVENTORY MODELS CONSIDERING SUPPLIER SELECTION AND PRICE SENSITIVE DEMAND

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Price Sensitive Demand
Supplier Selection
Serial Inventory System
Heuristic Algorithm.

File:

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Committee Members:

Dissertation, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Abhinav S

Title:

Quantifying Product Feature Heterogeneity And Its impact On Product Design Decisions

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product features
text mining
sentiment analysis
customer preferences

File:

Download AbhinavSingh_SP2016_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Phansalkar, Swapnil Chintamani

Title:

A multi-product, multi-supplier, multi-period and multi- price discount levels supplier selection and order allocation model under demand uncertainty

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

normal distribution of demand
minimum cost
minimum defects
minimum weighted average lead time

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Swapnil_Phansalkar.pdf

Committee Members:

M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lin, Chen-Hsueh

Title:

A BIDDING DECISION MODEL FOR SMEs

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Competitive Bidding
Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)
Delay in Payment
Triangular Distribution

File:

Download thesis_20161102.pdf

Committee Members:

VITTALDAS PRABHU, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. RAVI RAVINDRAN, Committee Member
JANIS TERPENNY, Committee Member

Author:

Noah, Benjamin

Title:

Modeling Mental Workload with Eye Tracking Using Latent Profile Analysis

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Mental Workload
Eye Tracking
Process Control
Supervisory control
Cognitive workload

File:

Download Noah_Dissertation_v1.4.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Outside Member

Author:

Bezawada, Shruthi Reddy

Title:

A Machine Learning Approach to Automatically Capture Designers’ Affective States during Prototyping Activities

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

affective computing
engineering design
interest
comfort
engineering machines
intelligent monitoring systems

File:

Download Bezawada_MS_2016_ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member

Author:

Julaiti, Juxihong

Title:

Simplifying Large Scale-free Networks by Optimizing The Information Content and Incomprehensibility

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Scale-free Networks
Simplification
Shannon Entropy

File:

Download FINAL_MSTHESIS_JUXIHONG.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seifu Chonde, Committee Member
Janis Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Muthupandi, Sowmyasri

Title:

Legitimate or not – learning the status of online pharmacies

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Online pharmacies
Healthcare Analytics
Web mining

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_-_sum344.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Hui Zhao, Committee Member
Dr. Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Boyi

Title:

Bi-Objective Integrated Supply Chain Network Design Under Supply and Demand Uncertainties

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

uncertainty
stochastic demand
supplier disruption
Supply chain network design
multiple objectives
scenario analysis

File:

Download 160711_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Hwang, Seong wook

Title:

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FOR ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES ON A TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Transportation infrastructure
location of refueling stations
alternative fuel vehicles
directed transportation network
vehicle classes
portions of fuel remaining
multiple paths
0-1 linear programming model

File:

Download Dissertation_Seong_Wook_Hwang.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:

Toh, Christine

Title:

TOWARDS A THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CREATIVE CONCEPT SELECTION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Engineering Design
Creativity
Concept Selection
Engineering Education
Preferences for Creativity
Design Decision-Making
Decision-Making Biases
Psychometrics

File:

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Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Samuel Todd Hunter, Outside Member

Author:

Rigdon, Matthew Alden

Title:

Dual Time Scale Dynamic User Equilibria with Demand Growth: Formulation and a Convergent Algorithm

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

dynamic user equilibrium
dynamic games
traffic equilibria
algorithm

File:

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Committee Members:

Terry Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tom Cavalier, Committee Member
Venky Shankar, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

Author:

Ting, Pei Long

Title:

A STUDY OF THE TURNING OF AUSTEMPERED DUCTILE IRON (ADI) GRADES WITH COATED CARBIDE TOOLS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

ADI
Turning
Cutting speed
Surface finish
Chip formation
Tool life

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Demeter, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yuxi

Title:

Integration of Product Design and Supply Chain Performance for Multi-Market Conditions

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product design
supply chain
design for assembly
design for profit
mixed integer programming

File:

Download Thesis_YUXI_gk.pdf

Committee Members:

Gul Okudan Kremer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jianhua Chen, Committee Member
Xinli Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Sakpal, Aniket Sunil

Title:

IMAGE-GUIDED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Defects
Simulation
Multifractals
UMPCA

File:

Download FinalThesis_AniketSakpal.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Polim, Rico

Title:

Real-Time Supply Chain Analytics - Shipment Duration Prediction

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Logistics
Data Mining
Forecasting

File:

Download Thesis-Rico-Nov17.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Zhao, Committee Member
Robert Voight, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Zi

Title:

First-Order Methods for Large Scale Convex Optimization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

first-order methods
convex optimization
distributed optimization
convex regression
multi-agent consensus optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Necdet S Aybat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Enrique del Castillo, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Chellappa, Varun Sudhurshun

Title:

SPATIAL ACCESSIBILITY IN FOOD DESERTS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data Analytics
Data Mining
Spatial Accessibility
Big Data
Process Improvement

File:

Download Varun_S_Chellappa_-_MS_Thesis_-_Fall_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Swenson, Eric R

Title:

VALUE-BASED PAYMENT IN TOTAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY: A HEALTHCARE MARKET SEGMENTATION METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE VALUE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Healthcare Market Segmentation
Data Analytics
Total Joint Replacement
Value Based Payment

File:

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Committee Members:

Harriet B. Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet B. Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ravi Ravindran, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Committee Member
Naleef Fareed, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Yifeng

Title:

RISK-ADJUSTED MONITORING, COST-EFFECTIVENESS, AND META-ANALYSIS FOR DATA-DRIVEN HEALTHCARE FOR TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

total hip arthroplasty
risk-adjusted monitoring
meta-analysis
machine learning
statistical process control
cost-effectiveness
Markov simulation model

File:

Download Dissertation_Yifeng_Yu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Harriet Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Conrad Tucker, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Naleef Fareed, Outside Member
Andrea Yevchak-Sillner, Special Member

Author:

Singh, Inder Pratap

Title:

NETWORK MODELS OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROFILES FOR CHARACTERIZATION AND DETECTION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DEFECTS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

image analysis
process control
defect detection
quality control
additive manufacturing
wavelet analysis
network model

File:

Download Inder_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Ankem, Nikita Sudarshan

Title:

Models for Performance Analysis of a Cross-dock

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

AGV
Cross-dock
Computational Model
Max-Flow
Throughput
Mean Value Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Vittal Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sun, Yuzhi

Title:

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM DATA ANALYSIS ON E-LEARNING PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

E-learning Improvement
Instructional Forms
Electroencephalogram
Personality
Perceived Workload
Learning Performance.

File:

Download Thesis-Yuzhi_Sun-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Nembhard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Park, Kijung

Title:

Characterization and Modeling of Product Family Evolution

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product Family Evolution
Product Family Design
Product Family Architecture Network
Network Science
Network Characterization
Dynamic Network Modeling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_KijungPark_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar R. T. Kumara, Committee Member
Conrad S. Tucker, Committee Member
Réka Albert, Outside Member

Author:

Vidvans, Amey Narayan

Title:

A modified structure from motion framework based on smartphone imaging for 3D reconstruction of arbitrary shapes

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Reconstruction
Smartphone
Digital Image Correlation
Reverse Engineering

File:

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Committee Members:

Prof Saurabh Basu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor