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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:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir
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:: 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
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:: 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
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:: 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
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:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Etemadi, Amir
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:: systems-of-systems, planning, system life cycle, system dynamics, modernization, 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:: 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
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:: 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
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:: Criteria, MCDM, Interdependency, TOPSIS, dependency, and MCDA
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Malalla, Ebrahim, Blackburn, TImothy, and Etemadi, Amir
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:: 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

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:: 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
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:: 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
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:: Machine Learning, Intrusion Detection System, 802.11 Wireless Security, Cybersecurity, and ICS/SCADA
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

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:: Resistance, Return on Investment (ROI), Automation, Augmentation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Innovation
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amirhossein and Malalla, Ebrahim
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, Resilience, and Communication Systems
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir
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:: Non Parametric Statistics, Test and Evaluation, Design of Experiments, Simulation, Split Plot, and Flight Test
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:: Paired Comparison, Decision Analysis, Feasibility Assessment, Expert Opinion, 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:: systems engineering, life cycle models, economics, diversified industrials, business growth, and semi-structured interviewing
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:: Identify, Competive Advantage, Develop, Predictive Tool, Areas of, and Approval Success
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Etemadi, Amir H
Committee Member(s):: Malalla, Ebrahim, Etemadi, Amir H, and Agbenyikey, Wilfred
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

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

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