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

Description:: 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:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy
Resource Type:: 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:: Pricing, Purchasing Structure, Ferrous Scrap, Quantitative, Recycled Steel, and Chemistry of Ferrous Scrap
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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

Description:: 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:: k-NN, Optimization, Cloud computing, Multivariate, Time series, and Machine Learning
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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

Description:: 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:: DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

General Aviation Accident Modeling and Causal Determination of Pilot Loss of Aircraft Control

Description:: Abstract of PraxisGeneral Aviation Accident Modeling and Causal Determination: Pilot Loss of Aircraft Control General Aviation (GA), a subset of the aviation industry, is currently facing a crisis of pilots losing control aircraft while inflight. The crisis is significant enough to warrant a...
Author:: Kenyi, Likambo
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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

Description:: 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...
Author:: Brady, Joseph F.
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A System Dynamics Approach to Planning Systems-of-Systems Modernization: A Wireless Telecommunications Interface Standard Case Study

Description:: For decades, the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD) has developed, deployed, and operated hundreds of different types of systems as components of systems-of-systems. Achieving and maintaining joint systems-of-systems interoperability as new systems are added is a constant problem....
Author:: Robinson, Brian E.
Keyword:: modernization, planning, system life cycle, system dynamics, systems-of-systems, and decision making
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein H
Committee Member(s):: Malalla, Ebrahim, Greenfield, Thomas F, and Etemadi, Amirhossein H
Resource Type:: 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:: Electric Power System, Togo, GDP, Restructuring, Shortage of Electric Power, and Electricity
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: 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:: Technology Forecasting, Hybrid Similarity Measure, Patent Analysis, and K-means Clustering
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H.
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amir H.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Interdependency of Criteria Impacts on TOPSIS

Description:: Many federal government agencies and commercial industries are utilizing multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods such as Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), Analytic Network Process (ANP), and The Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal...
Author:: Ahn, Jong G.
Keyword:: MCDA, Criteria, dependency, MCDM, TOPSIS, and Interdependency
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Blackburn, TImothy
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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

Description:: 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:: Engineering management, Technology Risk, Program management, Complex Systems, Schedule, and Systems engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Improved Federal IT Project Schedule Performance Prediction Model

Description:: 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:: Project Performance, Schedule Performance, Prediction Model, Federal Government, and Information Technology
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: 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:: outage management systems, Disaster Response, IntelliGrid, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), multi agent system (MAS), and Electric Grid
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Development of Resilient Safety-Critical Systems in Healthcare Using Interdependency Analysis and Resilience Design Patterns

Description:: In the U.S. medical sector, software failures in safety-critical systems in healthcare have led to serious adverse health problems, including patient deaths and recalls of medical systems. Despite the efforts in developing techniques to build resilient systems, there is a lack of consensus...
Author:: Farag, Mohamed S
Keyword:: Bayesian analysis, resilience design pattern, healthcare, Safety-critical system, fault tree analysis, and interdependency analysis
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy D
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Machine Learning Model for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Cargo Systems Program Directorate’s Sprint Effort Capacity Estimation

Description:: Agile methodology has been widely adopted by both commercial and government software development projects since 2001. Agile methodology promotes product delivery by executing multiple small iterations that are also known as sprints. Each sprint is a small software development project with own...
Author:: Lee, Scott J
Keyword:: Agile, Sprint, MARS, Yesterday's Weather, Velocity, and Estimation
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

An Investigation of Anomaly-based Ensemble Models for Multi-Domain Intrusion Detection

Description:: Although the traditional intrusion detection problem has been well studied with the release of the KDD’99 and NSL-KDD datasets, recent intrusion detection has expanded to include wireless 802.11 networks and Industrial Control Systems & Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (ICS/SCADA)...
Author:: Mikhail, Joseph
Keyword:: Cybersecurity, Intrusion Detection System, ICS/SCADA, 802.11 Wireless Security, and Machine Learning
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

US Knowledge Worker Augmentation versus Replacement with AI Software: Impact on Organizational Returns, Innovation, and Resistance

Description:: This praxis studies the effects on organizations of replacing US knowledge workers with artificial intelligence software (automation) and enhancing US knowledge workers with artificial intelligence software (augmentation). The effects on organizational innovation, resistance, and return on...
Author:: Boggan, Chad
Keyword:: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Innovation, Return on Investment (ROI), Automation, Resistance, and Augmentation
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy D., Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Percolation-Based Metrics to Quantify Resilience and Performance of Communication Systems

Description:: Resilience theory plays a vital role in the practical design of modern engineered resilient systems composed of cyber-physical systems and components having interdependencies intended to make the entire system robust. In this paper, the percolation-based metric is applied to measure the...
Author:: Benipayo, Caesar Sanosa
Keyword:: Percolation, Communication Systems, and Resilience
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Delivering Program Efficiency to Aerospace Testing Using Designed Experiments

Description:: Given the increasing complexity of systems and the cost associated with test and evaluation of aerospace systems, more efficient methods are sought. Randomized test designs for aviation developmental test activities and other complex systems may not enable safe test conduct and may be...
Author:: Fiorenza, Paul R.
Keyword:: Test and Evaluation, Design of Experiments, Non Parametric Statistics, Flight Test, Split Plot, and Simulation
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Committee Member(s):: Gray, Samuel
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Concept Feasibility Assessment with Uncertainty Using Expert Opinion and the Method of Paired Comparison

Description:: During exploratory research, solution concept approaches are considered with the intention of closing capability gaps between stakeholder business or mission needs and the available solutions portfolio. Increasingly, solution concept alternatives and capability requirements are advanced for...
Author:: Lantz, Gary
Keyword:: Decision Analysis, Expert Opinion, Paired Comparison, Feasibility Assessment, and Bradley–Terry
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amirhossein H
Committee Member(s):: Clark, Charles R
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

An Analysis into the Use of Various Systems Engineering Life Cycle Processes and their Influence on the Economic Growth of the Diversified Industrial Sector

Description:: Systems engineering rigor has been used successfully in the aerospace and defense industries where the development cycles tend to be rather long. However, the practice of using a traditional waterfall, spiral or V-model systems engineering life cycle framework, in other industries brings into...
Author:: Ashby, Dale Morris
Keyword:: life cycle models, economics, systems engineering, business growth, semi-structured interviewing, and diversified industrials
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H
Committee Member(s):: Rea, Peter J
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Identifying Areas of Competitive Advantage: Developing a Predictive Tool to Determine New Drug Approval Success

Description:: Healthcare costs are at an all-time high and there is no sign of ever relinquishing its upward trend or being controlled at the current level. The high cost of healthcare is partly attributed to the high cost of medicine. Research and development (R&D;) costs have been identified as a contributor...
Author:: Annan, Seth
Keyword:: Areas of, Competive Advantage, Approval Success, Develop, Predictive Tool, and Identify
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H
Committee Member(s):: Malalla, Ebrahim, Agbenyikey, Wilfred, and Etemadi, Amir H
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Application of System Maturity Level to Cost and Schedule Risk in Major DoD Programs

Description:: In an effort to control cost and schedule growth, the US Department of Defense mandates that defense acquisition programs perform Technology Readiness Acquisitions (TRAs) during the acquisition cycle. Technology maturity is widely believed to correlate with cost and schedule risk in complex...
Author:: Walan, Alexander M.G.
Keyword:: Technology Readiness, RISK Managment, Technology Readiness Level, and System Maturity Level
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H
Committee Member(s):: Walker, Amber
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Optimal Subset Selection for Causal Inference Using Machine Learning and Particle Swarm Optimization

Description:: There has been a notable rise in the availability of non-experimental observational data sets. Observational data sets include government survey data and “big data” from continuous monitoring. To date, most of this data has spurred correlational studies and there is interest in being able to draw...
Author:: Sharma, Dhruv
Keyword:: optimization, machine learning, and particle swarm optimization
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H.
Committee Member(s):: Belofsky, Michael
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Modeling Electrical Grid Resilience under Hurricane Wind Conditions with Increased Solar Photovoltaic and Wind Turbine Power Generation

Description:: The resource mix for the U.S. electrical power grid is undergoing rapid change with increased levels of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind turbine electricity generating capacity. There are potential negative impacts to grid resilience resulting from hurricane damage to wind and solar power...
Author:: Watson, Eileen B.
Keyword:: Fragility Curve, Resilience, Solar Photovoltaic, Electrical Grid, Wind Turbine, and Hurricanes
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H.
Committee Member(s):: Marden, Mirjana
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Multi-factor Sentiment Analysis for Gauging Investors Fear

Description:: The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) is widely used to gauge investor fear and measures the “insurance premiums” of the stock market. Traditionally, VIX prediction was done using time-series analysis models (e.g., GARCH), and some attempt was made to predict it using...
Author:: Tai, Ichihan
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H
Committee Member(s):: Malalla, Ebrahim, Mitsuhashi, Takeo, and Etemadi, Amir H
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Evaluating Program Risk for Department of Defense Acquisition Programs Using Performance Risk Indices

Description:: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) continue to provide engineering managers challenges in meeting cost, schedule and performance targets. To better identify acquisition programs that are at risk of failure, numerous studies have called for an expanded...
Author:: Hollers, Daniel
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A Conceptual Framework for Increasing Innovation through Improved Selection of Subject Matter Experts

Description:: Engineering managers involved in product development and manufacturing are responsible for proposing and developing ideas and concepts that will benefit new or existing products and processes. Improved methods are required to identify, prioritize, and integrate the opinions, ideas, and concepts...
Author:: Jeffcoat, Keith L
Keyword:: open innovation, specialized professionals, subject matter expert, concept generation, systems engineering, and engineering maangement
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H
Committee Member(s):: Harwood, Roland
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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

Quantitative Purchasing Structure for Ferrous Scrap

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

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

General Aviation Accident Modeling and Causal Determination of Pilot Loss of Aircraft Control

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

A System Dynamics Approach to Planning Systems-of-Systems Modernization: A Wireless Telecommunications Interface Standard Case Study

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

Improving the Forecast of Emerging Technologies Using Patent Analysis

Interdependency of Criteria Impacts on TOPSIS

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

Improved Federal IT Project Schedule Performance Prediction Model

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

Development of Resilient Safety-Critical Systems in Healthcare Using Interdependency Analysis and Resilience Design Patterns

Machine Learning Model for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Cargo Systems Program Directorate’s Sprint Effort Capacity Estimation

An Investigation of Anomaly-based Ensemble Models for Multi-Domain Intrusion Detection

US Knowledge Worker Augmentation versus Replacement with AI Software: Impact on Organizational Returns, Innovation, and Resistance

Percolation-Based Metrics to Quantify Resilience and Performance of Communication Systems

Delivering Program Efficiency to Aerospace Testing Using Designed Experiments

Concept Feasibility Assessment with Uncertainty Using Expert Opinion and the Method of Paired Comparison

An Analysis into the Use of Various Systems Engineering Life Cycle Processes and their Influence on the Economic Growth of the Diversified Industrial Sector

Identifying Areas of Competitive Advantage: Developing a Predictive Tool to Determine New Drug Approval Success

Application of System Maturity Level to Cost and Schedule Risk in Major DoD Programs

Optimal Subset Selection for Causal Inference Using Machine Learning and Particle Swarm Optimization

Modeling Electrical Grid Resilience under Hurricane Wind Conditions with Increased Solar Photovoltaic and Wind Turbine Power Generation

Multi-factor Sentiment Analysis for Gauging Investors Fear

Evaluating Program Risk for Department of Defense Acquisition Programs Using Performance Risk Indices

A Conceptual Framework for Increasing Innovation through Improved Selection of Subject Matter Experts

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