Titles of Recent Dissertations

 

  • Essays on Interdiction Problems in Novel Settings
  • A Deep Learning Based Approach for Time-series Modeling
  • Understanding Kinetics of Carbon Transport across Length-Scales at Diamond-Transition Metal Interfaces
  • Manufacturing and Design Validation of New Stent Grafts That Contain Complex Geometries
  • Temporal and Spatial Considerations in Maintenance Planning
  • Exploiting Local Optimality and Strong Inequalities for Solving Bilevel Combinatorial and Submodular Optimization Problems
  • Durable, Self-Cleaning, Medical Fabric Coatings for Infectious Hazard Protection
  • Structured Strategies for Learning and Exploration in Sequential Decision Making
  • Three Dimensional Blueprinting of Molecular Patterns in Liquid Crystalline Polymers
  • Diamond Surface Structuring via Carbon Transport at Diamond-Transition Metal Interfaces
  • Laser Processing of Polymers for Controlled Carbonization and Folding
  • A Study of Data-driven Models with Challenges Arising from OR Applications
  • Volumetric Data Analysis for Reverse Engineering and Solid Additive Manufacturing: A Framework for Geometric Metrological Analysis
  • Electrothermally Driven Dynamic Instability in Molecularly Ordered Liquid Crystalline Polymers
  • Inverse Optimization and Inverse Multiobjective Optimization
  • Deformation Mechanics and Microstructure Evolution of Material Removal at Small Length-Scale
  • Multi-functional Optoelectronic Substrates
  • Reformulation Techniques and Solution Approaches for Fractional 0-1 Programs and Applications
  • Optimal Design and Operation of WHO-EPI Vaccine Distribution Chains
  • Operations and Maintenance Optimization of Stochastic Systems: Three Essays
  • Critical Elements Detection in Dynamic Networks Under Uncertainty
  • Micro/Nano Structured Materials for Enhanced Device Performance and Antibacterial Applications
  • Workflow Analysis, Scheduling, and Chance Constraint Models in Community Pharmacy Operations
  • Optimizing donor human milk bank operations
  • Multiobjective and Robust Optimization in Pharmacy Delivery and Emergency Department Nurse Staffing
  • Operating Room Scheduling and Integrated Block Assignments under Emergency Arrivals
  • Optimal Energy Storage Strategies in Microgrids
  • Design, Parameter Optimization and In Vitro Evaluation of Implantable Medical Devices
  • Bilevel linear programs: generalized models for the lower-level reaction set and related problems
  • Sequential Bilevel Linear Programming with Incomplete Information and Learning
  • Optimizing Multi-Item Inventory Management Decisions in Healthcare Facilities
  • Transparent Conductors Based on Microscale/Nanoscale Materials for High Performance Devices
  • Optimal Maintenance Planning in Novel Settings
  • A Systematic Inquiry on Global Engineering Education: Strategies and Impact
  • Data-Driven Management of Intensive Care Units
  • Optimizing Vaccine Clinic Operations in Low and Middle Income Countries
  • Improving the design and operation of WHO-EPI vaccine distribution networks
  • Valid Inequalities and Reformulation Techniques for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming
  • Novel Surface Modification Techniques to Enhance Biocompatibility of Metallic Materials for Medical Implants
  • Light Management in Silicon Nanostructures for Photovoltaics
  • Integrating Proactive and Reactive Decision-making in Surgery Scheduling
  • Engineering of Surface Microstructure Transformations Using High Rate Severe Plastic Deformation in Machining
  • Effect of Length Scales on Microstructure Evolution During Severe Plastic Deformation
  • Efficient resource allocation in a bilevel hierarchy with knapsack and assignment lower-level problems
  • Integer Programming Approaches to Stochastic Games Arising in Paired Kidney Exchange and Industrial Organization
  • Improving healthcare delivery: liver health updating and surgical patient routing
  • Optimizing implanted cardiac device follow-up care
  • Performance analysis and optimization of query-based wireless sensor networks
  • Optimal Replacement Strategies for Wind Energy Systems
  • Essays on Integer Programming in Military and Power Management Applications
  • Managing HIV treatment in resource-limited and dynamic environments
  • Dynamic Decision Models for Managing the Major Complications of Diabetes
  • The analysis and modeling of the engineering design process: factors leading to innovative outcomes
  • Duality theory for composite geometric programming
  • Scheduling multiple operating rooms under uncertainty
  • Modeling the WHO-EPI Vaccine Supply Chain in Low and Middle Income Countries
  • Eliciting patient preferences and placing expedited organs
  • Markov decision process models for improving equity in liver allocation
  • Optimal Design of the Annual Influenza Vaccine
  • A Systematic Consideration of the Human and Technical Elements in the Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Cells
  • Best-subset Selection for Complex Systems using Agent-based Simulation
  • Assessing and Mitigating Risk in a Design for Supply Chain Problem
  • A Facility Layout Design Methodology for Retail Environments
  • Spare Parts Management for Nuclear Power Generation Facilities
  • On Solving Selected Nonlinear Integer Programming Problems in Data Mining, Computational Biology, and Sustainability
  • RFID in Supply Chains
  • Understanding the Modeling Skill Shift in Engineering: The Impact  of Self-Efficacy, Epistemology, and Metacognition
  • Increasing and Assessing the Impact of Patient Choice in Liver Transplantation
  • A quantitative decision model towards maximizing organizational sustainability
  • Decision models for sustainable manufacturing systems
  • An integrated multiple statistical technique for predicting post-secondary educational degree outcomes based primarily on variables available in the 8th grade
  • Development and evaluation of a model to assess engineering ethical reasoning and decision making
  • Agent-based discrete event simulation modeling and evolutionary real-time decision making for large-scale systems
  • Optimization of mapping onto a flexible low-power electronic fabric architecture
  • Designing the Liver Allocation Hierarchy: Incorporating Equity and Uncertainty
  • Development of a simultaneous design for supply chain process for the optimization of the product design and supply chain configuration problem
  • Estimating the price of privacy in liver transplantation
  • Developing methods to solve the workforce assignment problem considering worker heterogeneity and learning and forgetting developing methods to solve the workforce assignment problem considering worker heterogeneity and learning and forgetting
  • Integrated Decision Making in Global Supply Chains and Networks
  • Detection resource allocation in adversarial problems
  • An Investigation of the Idea Generation and Protection Process in Academia
  • On the Variance of Electricity Prices in Deregulated Markets
  • Multivariate statistical process control for correlation matrices
  • Modeling Disease Management Decisions for Patients with Pneumonia-related Sepsis
  • Three Essays on Decision Making under Uncertainty in Electric Power Systems