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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
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GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Blackburn, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Blackburn, Timothy
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:: Decision Making, Techology Profile, Technology Adoption, Gartner Hype Cycle, and Innovation
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir and Ebrahim, Malalla
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, Blackburn, Timothy, 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:: Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, and DevOps
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Blackburn, Timothy
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
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GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Blackburn, Timothy
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.
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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

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

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
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GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Etemadi, Amir
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:: Technology Risk, Systems engineering, Complex Systems, Engineering management, Schedule, and Program management
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

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:: Schedule Performance, Prediction Model, Information Technology, Project Performance, and Federal Government
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Blackburn, Timothy
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:: contract manufacturing, knowledge transfer, scale-up, technology transfer, chemical, and engineering management
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and Blackburn, Timothy
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:: Estimation, Yesterday's Weather, Velocity, Sprint, MARS, and Agile
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Malalla, Ebrahim and Blackburn, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Malalla, Ebrahim, and 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:: ICS/SCADA, Cybersecurity, 802.11 Wireless Security, Machine Learning, and Intrusion Detection System
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

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:: Systems Engineering, Resilience Analysis, Inertial Navigation Systems, Resilience, and Resilience Engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Garstenauer, Andreas and Blackburn, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Murphree, Edward L., Stott, Clint, Blackburn, Timothy, and Garstenauer, Andreas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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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