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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