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An Integrated Prognostics Condition-Based Maintenance Approach to Reduce Premature Failure of Wind Turbines' Gearbox Components

Description:: Abstract of PraxisAn Integrated Prognostics Condition-Based Maintenance Approach to Reduce Premature Failure of Wind Turbines’ Gearbox Components This research proposed an integrated prognostics condition-based maintenance (CBM) strategy to reduce the premature sudden failure of three-bladed...
Author:: Issahak, Ahmed
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GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Dimitriou, Aristos
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Implementing the Lean Approach to Reduce Long Waiting Times in Philippine Hospitals

Description:: Abstract of Praxis Implementing the Lean Approach to Reduce Long Waiting Times in Philippine Hospitals The Philippines, a developing nation in the Far East, is one of the 195 countries in the world that has serious problems within the health care system. Although experts and practitioners...
Author:: Alejo, Jet R
Keyword:: Patient Wait Time, Engineering Management, Queue Management System, Six Sigma, Philippine Hospitals, and Lean Methodology
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Dimitriou, Aristos
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A Project-Oriented Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Approach for Naval Decision Support

Description:: Systems engineering projects in the Navy require the use of a singular engineeringmethod that lacks tailorability, and while this method works for large scale projects, it has also caused small-scale projects (those with less than 1000 function points) implementing MBSE to fall behind schedule in...
Author:: Jenkins, Z
Keyword:: UML, Model-Based, MBSE, Systems Engineering, DODAF, and SYSML
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Dimitriou, Aristos
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Reducing Department of Defense IT System Outage Resolution Times

Description:: This research analyzes the factors within a Department of Defense organization's network-related outage resolution workflow that prolong resolution times. More specifically, how the current inefficiencies within the resolution process effect outage resolution and the management of enterprise...
Author:: Ward, Michael
Keyword:: Resolution, process improvement, IT, IT outage, and IT service management
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Adetunji, Oluwatomi, Blackburn, Timothy, and Etemadi, Amir
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Battery Energy Storage Operating Plan to Maximize Wholesale Power Cost Reduction for Electric Cooperatives in PJM

Description:: This praxis addresses the operational dispatch and economic benefit of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) for electric distribution cooperatives in PJM. The applied research uses day-ahead market (DAM) signals and load forecast data from the PJM market to develop a battery Energy Storage...
Author:: Hewa, John David
Keyword:: BESS, energy, storage, power, battery, and electricity
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Adetunji, Oluwatomi and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Adetunji, Oluwatomi, Blackburn, Timothy, and Etemadi, Amir
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Mitigating Risk in Retail Prime Money Market Funds: Capital Buffer Sizing and Pricing

Description:: Money market funds are investment vehicles that purchase short-term debt instruments issued by financial and non-financial corporations, state and local governments, and government entities. Money market funds are important to the financial system as they provide as an alternative to short-term...
Author:: Young, Stephen D
Keyword:: Money Market Funds, Risk, Structural Default, Financial Crisis, Regulation, and Simulation
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Adetunji, Oluwatomi O and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Adetunji, Oluwatomi O
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Improved Obsolescence Management for Electronic and Control Systems (ECS) in NASA-International Space Station (ISS) Program.

Description:: The most expensive project in human history is the International Space Station (ISS); it has reached $160+ billions in total expenses. Currently, the lifespan of the ISS has been exceeded, and the spacecraft operations is projected for a minimum of 10 years. However, due to its aging technology,...
Author:: Djoko Djoukuimo, Gilles MI
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Informed Technology Adoption Decisions Based on Innovation-related Factors

Description:: The timely adoption of technology for organizations in making the right investment or divestment can be achieved by using multicriteria decision making approach with integrated views of established innovation theories, industry best practices in technology acquisition lifecycle, statistical...
Author:: Hsieh, David A
Keyword:: Technology Adoption, Gartner Hype Cycle, Innovation, Techology Profile, and Decision Making
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Ebrahim, Malalla
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Griffith, Mark
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

Process Improvement Using Lean and Six Sigma to Support Priority Mail Package Delivery

Description:: In the package delivery industry, competitive advantage is changing with the evolution of customer expectation. The United States Postal Service (USPS) started with the delivery of letters, but had to restructure its company when the mailing of letters began to decrease, while simultaneously the...
Author:: Whiters, Chakeia
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
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

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

Data-Driven Analytics For Oil and Gas Well Parameter Estimation

Description:: Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (E&P;) projects routinely experience cost overruns and delays, with about 64% of new projects exceeding their budgets and almost 75% completed behind schedule partly as a result of non-optimal project designs1. Owing to the highly complex and heterogeneous...
Author:: Ebiye, John N
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
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

Reducing Errors in Development Trials Using Technology Transfer in Contract Chemical Manufacturing

Description:: Contract chemical manufacturers spend resources on development trials that have errors due to incomplete knowledge transfer from the customer. These errors waste engineering resources and can result in lost business. A technology transfer program was proposed as a solution to reduce the number of...
Author:: Miller, Michael Joseph
Keyword:: engineering management, technology transfer, knowledge transfer, contract manufacturing, chemical, and scale-up
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, and Malalla, Ebrahim
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

Resilience Analysis of Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) through an Enhanced INS Tool Kit

Description:: Resilience is explained as an entity’s capacity to survive and recover from disruptions. Approaches to design resilient systems are in growing demand; however, there have been few demonstrations for measuring and quantifying systems resilience. This research presents a Resilience Analysis...
Author:: Stavish, Kenneth
Keyword:: Resilience Engineering, Resilience Analysis, Inertial Navigation Systems, Systems Engineering, and Resilience
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy and Garstenauer, Andreas
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Etemadi, Amir, Garstenauer, Andreas, Stott, Clint, and Murphree, Edward L.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

An Integrated Prognostics Condition-Based Maintenance Approach to Reduce Premature Failure of Wind Turbines' Gearbox Components

Implementing the Lean Approach to Reduce Long Waiting Times in Philippine Hospitals

A Project-Oriented Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Approach for Naval Decision Support

Reducing Department of Defense IT System Outage Resolution Times

Battery Energy Storage Operating Plan to Maximize Wholesale Power Cost Reduction for Electric Cooperatives in PJM

Mitigating Risk in Retail Prime Money Market Funds: Capital Buffer Sizing and Pricing

Improved Obsolescence Management for Electronic and Control Systems (ECS) in NASA-International Space Station (ISS) Program.

Informed Technology Adoption Decisions Based on Innovation-related Factors

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

Process Improvement Using Lean and Six Sigma to Support Priority Mail Package Delivery

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

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

Data-Driven Analytics For Oil and Gas Well Parameter Estimation

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

Improved Federal IT Project Schedule Performance Prediction Model

Reducing Errors in Development Trials Using Technology Transfer in Contract Chemical Manufacturing

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

Resilience Analysis of Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) through an Enhanced INS Tool Kit

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