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Engineering Management Field Projects: Recent submissions
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Sustainable Transportation Design In the United States: Background, Current Initiatives and Optimization
(2010-12-17)Decades of increased highway maintenance and construction, the constant use of finite resources, the severity of highway accidents, increased congestion, harmful emissions, and other negative environmental impacts have ... -
Business and Marketing Plan: Homeowners Off-Grid Association
(2010-12-17)Today, more than ever the United States government is pushing legislation to relieve the pressure of high energy prices on the economy. Most notably, on February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and ... -
Changing Trends in Telecommunications Industry
(2010-12-17)The mobile telecommunication industry is one of the fastest growing and continually changing markets in the world today. The greatest achievement of wireless technology is that it has made communications possible in the ... -
Evaluating the Productivity of Software Engineers in Enterprise Development
(2010-12-17)Managing and evaluating the work of software engineers creating complex products at large corporations is particularly challenging with no standardized system to recognize productivity. Cerner Corporation, a leading supplier ... -
Reducing a Companies Carbon Footprint through Energy Saving Best Practices at a Dairy Manufacturing Facility
(2010-12-17)Today global warming and the issues that cause it are a high priority to consumers. They want the companies that provide their products and services to reduce the global warming gasses in the atmosphere and as such consumers ... -
Economic Analysis and Optimization of Exterior Insulation Requirements for Ventilated Buildings at Power Generation Facilities with High Internal Heat Gain
(2010-12-17)Industrial buildings require a large amount of heating and ventilation equipment to maintain the indoor environment within acceptable levels for personnel protection and equipment protection. The required heating and ... -
Integrated Project Delivery: Managing Liability Risks for the Design Professional
(2010-12-17)In today’s construction industry a paradigm shift is happening and along with it a complete new way of thinking. This paper was written to help identify the liability changes design firms in the construction industry may ... -
Leadership Development Program
(2010-12-17)Rapid growth at SWEF (Software Engineering Firm) in recent years has led to the creation of many new team lead positions. This led to Human Resources developing a leadership development program to better equip newly ... -
Evaluating the Interstate Highway Transportation System in West Africa: Recommendations for an Integrated Highway Network
(2010-12-17)As West Africa invests in highway systems, the question arises as to why the highways built in West Africa do not perform and have not provided the successes similar to the highways constructed in other developing countries ... -
A Critical Analysis of the Viability and Impacts of Solar Energy Carve-Outs in Renewable Portfolio Standards
(2010-12-17)Numerous states have implemented legislation to advance the use of specific renewable energy resources, most notably solar. However, solar energy is accompanied by several deficiencies – including high costs, limited ... -
Business and Marketing Plan for XXXX Engineering
(2010-05-14)XXXX Engineer is a proposed Veteran Owned Electrical Engineering Firm that specializes in Aviation Lighting Design. Aviation Lighting Design includes runway lighting, taxiway lighting, guidance signs, approach lighting ... -
Qualitative Strategy for Inbound Call Center Outsourcing
(2010-05-14)An analysis of the various challenges of the call center industry, together with the challenges of outsourcing, revealed a need for developing a strategy that acts as a guide for organizations that are willing to outsource ... -
Web-Based Software Vendor Management Application
(2010-05-14)At XYZ Technologies, Inc., the lack of standardized processes and tools to manage different software vendors is costing the company time and money. Visibility and the ability to track software vendor transactions are limited ... -
Ad-Hoc Cross-Functional Workgroups
(2010-05-14)The situation found at Acme Inc is unique in that it constantly forms, disbands and reforms workgroups that contain multiple functional disciplines. While readily available for study at Acme Inc, these types of groups are ... -
A Method for Estimating the Financial Impact of Cyber Information Security Breaches Utilizing the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and Annual Loss Expectancy
(2010-05-14)Information security is relatively new field that is experiencing rapid growth in terms of malicious attack frequency and the amount of capital that firms must spend on attack defense. This rise in security expenditures ... -
A Pragmatic Business Analysis Model for Telecom Operators
(2010-05-14)It was July 2008, in a conference room at the headquarters of CLEC Telecom that the idea for this research was conceived. I was meeting with my new boss, Sunil Bhojwani, to understand the team’s raison d’être and determine ... -
The Essentials of Preparing Cost Estimates Yielding Long-Run Profitability
(2010-05-14)This research is based on the study of all the various steps and elements involved in estimating costs of projects. The different factors, whether it be human resources employed, concepts applied or processes used, affect ... -
Are the Factors Impacting Women's Success in Avionics Industry Different from Other Male Dominated Industries?
(2010-05-14)The purpose of this paper is to determine if the factors impacting women’s success in the Avionics Industry are different from those in other male dominated industries. This paper is written in order to help women in male ... -
Improving the Execution and Influence of a Quality Group
(2010-05-14)National Conduit is a manufacturing company for the telecommunications industry. Though management stresses the importance of quality, management often overlooks quality due to a misunderstanding of its role. Management ... -
Auto Defect Classification (ADC) Value for Patterned Wafer Inspection Systems in PLY Within a High Volume Wafer Manufacturing Fabrication Facility
(2010-05-14)The purpose of this investigation is to demonstrate value for Auto Defect Classification (ADC) for patterned wafer inspection systems within a high volume manufacturing fabrication in the Process Limited Yield (PLY) ...