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An Easy-to-Implement Model to Determine the Percentage of Wake Energy from a Vessel Reaching the Shoreline

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An Easy-to-Implement Model to Determine the Percentage of Wake Energy from a Vessel Reaching the Shoreline Across the country, cities are considering implementing or have implemented ferry service as a method of transportation. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, there were...

Author:

Blackford, Joseph P.

Keyword:

ship wake

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy

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Thesis or Dissertation
Quantitative Purchasing Structure for Ferrous Scrap

Description:

The majority of steel manufacturers within the United States have employed electric arc furnaces (EAFs), which melt raw materials, for the production of steel. The raw material used in EAFs is referred to as steel, or ferrous, scrap. There are many different grades of ferrous scrap, which are...

Author:

Stefanek, Andrew Barry

Keyword:

Purchasing Structure, Chemistry of Ferrous Scrap, Quantitative, Ferrous Scrap, Pricing, and Recycled Steel

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy

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Thesis or Dissertation
Forecasting Optimality in Resource Utilization for Cloud Computing Systems to Maximize Quality of Service

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Forecasting of resource utilization in large cloud computing systems is essential to maintain high-quality service and fulfill service level agreements to ensure cost-effectiveness and profitability. Accurately forecasting long-term resource utilization can be challenging, as it is dynamic and...

Author:

Seevaratnam, Niranjan

Keyword:

Machine Learning, Optimization, Cloud computing, Multivariate, Time series, and k-NN

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amirhossein

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A Quantitative Performance-Oriented Capability Model for Better Adoption of DevOps in Software Product Organizations

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This research study presents the concept of DevOps (or development and operations) performance clusters to measure DevOps teams performance, based on three metrics, two agility metrics (delivery lead time and deployment frequency) and a stability metric (mean time to recover). It uses a...

Author:

Gomaa, Taher

Keyword:

Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, and DevOps

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amir

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Thesis or Dissertation
Maintenance reliability analysis for increasing parts availability and reducing operations and maintenance costs

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The US Air Force (USAF)’s goal is to achieve aircraft availability (AA) rates similar to those of the commercial airline industry. Improving AA rates while reducing operations and maintenance (O&M;) costs is a major challenge for the USAF. This Praxis research identifies field-level components...

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Brady, Joseph F.

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GW Unit:

Engineering Management

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D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amir

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Thesis or Dissertation
Restructuring Electric Power System to Reduce Shortage of Electric Power and Increase GDP in Togo

Description:

Current management and technical structures of the electric power system in Togo have shown their limits. Togo continues to suffer from limited access to electric power and endemic electric power shortages resulting in the slow-down of the country’s socio-economic development. For over 43 years,...

Author:

Aboky, Norbert Edem

Keyword:

Restructuring, GDP, Shortage of Electric Power, Electricity, Electric Power System, and Togo

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amir

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Thesis or Dissertation
Improving the Forecast of Emerging Technologies Using Patent Analysis

Description:

The problem of forecasting emerging technologies (FET) has attracted the attention of researchers in the patent-analysis community because it provides a starting point for organizations to introduce radical technology change or a new product or engage in a merger and acquisition. Many FET methods...

Author:

Clouse, Raja L

Keyword:

Patent Analysis, Hybrid Similarity Measure, K-means Clustering, and Technology Forecasting

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Etemadi, Amir H. and Malalla, Ebrahim

Committee Member(s):

Etemadi, Amir H., Blackburn, Timothy, and Malalla, Ebrahim

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Thesis or Dissertation
Integrate or Innovate: Controlling Schedule Risk in Major Defense Acquisition Programs

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The last thirty years have seen multiple DoD acquisition programs with significant cost and schedule overruns. This paper posits that the primary driver of schedule overruns is the difficulty of “inventing on a schedule” by undertaking risky technology development efforts within a Major Defense...

Author:

Manuel, Daniel G.

Keyword:

Schedule, Technology Risk, Program management, Engineering management, Complex Systems, and Systems engineering

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amir

Resource Type:

Thesis or Dissertation
Improved Federal IT Project Schedule Performance Prediction Model

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The federal government currently collects information for the Information Technology (IT) Projects in which it invests, but it does not apply this information to more accurately predict the performance of these projects. As a result, project managers within the federal government are not...

Author:

Reese, Raymond

Keyword:

Information Technology, Project Performance, Schedule Performance, Prediction Model, and Federal Government

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amir

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Thesis or Dissertation
An Approach to Dynamic Resource Allocation for Electric Power Disaster Response Management

Description:

Electricity has become an invaluable commodity for the rest of humanity such that nations irrespective of their classification in the world economy will find it difficult to function without it’s reliable supply. For nations such as the United States and the rest of the developed world,...

Author:

Kargbo, Abdulai Hassan

Keyword:

Disaster Response, outage management systems, IntelliGrid, multi agent system (MAS), Electric Grid, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

GW Unit:

Engineering Management

Degree:

D.Engr.

Advisor:

Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir

Committee Member(s):

Blackburn, Timothy

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