Almost 60% of the US Major Defense Acquisition Programs are either over budget or delayed in terms of schedule. To combat and address this, the Department of Defense has introduced and mandated the implementation of the Modular Open Systems Approach through the Better Buying Power 3.0 directive...
This qualitative study was a means to identify what motivated Black students to serve in the supplemental instruction (SI) leader role, the challenges they experienced, and what they learned while serving in the peer educator role within the context of an historically Black college or university...
Companion (2019-2020) is an ongoing project on the experiences of survivors from sexual assault and harassment in the form of a massive wall made of boxes of various sizes and shapes. I handmade each box from papier-mâché and painted into mixed acrylic colors. Moreover, I have collected...
This research presents the application of various single machine learning algorithms (generalized linear models, random forest, decision tree, gradient boosted trees, support vector machine, deep Learning) and ensemble (bagging) to predict the cost and schedule of a software project. The software...
Substance use among women has increased in recent years (SAMHSA, 2019). SAMHSA (2009) recommends that substance use be treated differently in women due to the biopsychosocial differences from men, such as progression of substance use disorders, comorbid and co-occurring psychological issues, and...
U.S. expatriates are vulnerable to psychological distress due to challenges of living outside the U.S. that may contribute to decreased overall psychological and functional well-being with potentially long-term harmful consequences (Truman, Sharar & Pompe, 2011). However, there is scant evidence...
There has been a considerable increase in Open Source software vulnerabilities in recent years (WhiteSource, 2018). Moreover, OSS vulnerabilities are disclosed through nonofficial channels and dispersed among heterogeneous data sources with limited cross-references. This renders efficiently...
There are an estimated 70.8 million people forcibly displaced worldwide due to conflict and persecution (UNHCR, 2019) and a backlog of 476,000 asylum cases awaiting review in the United States as of 2019 (USCIS, 2019). There is a lack of research focusing exclusively on asylum seekers, even...
Latinx youth are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population and are at higher risk for a number of internalizing (i.e., emotional problems or disorders) and externalizing (i.e., behavioral problems) symptoms compared to their White and African American counterparts. Perceived ethnic...
This report details the design, build and test for Bush’s Revenge by the 2019 – 2020 AIAA DBF team at the George Washington University (GWU), School of Engineering and Applied Science. The aircraft was designed to complete the following mission tasks: empty weight flight, carriage of passengers...