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  • Using Conceptual Change to Improve Lean Implementation Quality

    Creator:
    Mirdad, Waleed K.
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    Change initiatives have a 70 percent failure rate, but effective change is necessary if a company is to remain competitive. Current organizational change research around lean process improvement links unsatisfactory implementation results to organizational behaviors, but does not assess how individual cognitive characteristics affect successful lean implementation. Although a range...
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    . vii CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Joshua D. Hille assisted with the development of the Conceptual

  • Turbulent Heat Transfer of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in the Proximity of the Pseudo-Critical Point with Non-Uniform Heat Flux Boundary Conditions

    Creator:
    Jajja, Saad A.
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    Seven decades of supercritical heat transfer research have not seen an attempt to characterize turbulent thermal transport in internal flows subject to asymmetric heating. Existing heat transfer models therefore do not account for phenomena that dictates thermal transport, in the proximity of the pseudo-critical point, for non-uniform heating. Additionally, past...
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    channel geometries, were employed. A data analysis technique, employing 2-D and 3-D heat transfer models

  • The experimental characterization of membrane behavior in two-phase gas extraction

    Creator:
    Cappello, Nicholas C.
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    Understanding the behavior of hydrophobic membranes is important for applications where separating a gas from a liquid-gas mixture is beneficial. For example, in-situ vapor extraction can be used in microscale heat sinks to improve heat transfer and flow stability. In this study, gas is experimentally evaluated flowing through flexible polytetrafluoroethylene...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas C. Cappello for

  • The Effect of Process Improvement Practices on Kuwaiti Manufacturing Companies

    Creator:
    Khajah, Abdullah Saheb
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    Awareness and implementation of process improvement strategies, like Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, and Lean Management have increased since the 1980s. In more recent history, lean management thinking has shown its significance in the manufacturing world. Kuwait, being a country in which its whole dependence is on revenues of oil...
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    products and processes (Nicholas, 2011). Mirdad and Eseonu (2015) identify six principles, which are

  • The Effect of Isothermal Aging on the Development of Long-Range Order in Ni-based Alloys

    Creator:
    Aerne, Nicholas S. J.
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    Nickel (Ni)-based alloys with a high chromium (Cr) content are frequently employed in applications where elevated temperatures and/or corrosive environments are present due to their excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties. However, a gap exists around the formation, and kinetics of long-range order (LRO) Ni2Cr phase in both model binary...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Nicholas Steven Jude Aerne for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • The development and application of asystemic human error identification and remediation methodology

    Creator:
    Lee, Wei-Tau
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    This thesis describes a Systemic Vulnerability Identification and Remediation (SVIR) methodology that identifies human fallibilities and errors in complex technical processes, and recommends remediations for the errors, based on human factors principles and guidelines. The objectives of the research described in the thesis are the development of the methodology and...
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    ………………………………………………………….. 128 C: Recruitment memo……………………………………………………………… 130 D: Human Fallibility Identification

  • The Applicability of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics to Compressive Damage of the Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Matrix

    Creator:
    Carpenter, Kevin T.
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    With the widespread replacement of aluminum with composite materials, particularly in aircraft structures, the lack of comprehensive understanding of these materials is unsettling. The complex nature of these materials, with respect to isotropic aluminum, makes the prediction of their mechanical response equally complex. The failure of carbon fiber reinforced plastic...
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    engineer. I would also like to thank the members of the lab (past and present): Nicholas Aerne, Taylor

  • Robotic Actuation and Control with Programmable, Field-Activated Material Systems

    Creator:
    Bira, Nicholas P.
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    This dissertation presents novel, field-activated smart material systems for the actuation and control of autonomous robots. Smart materials, a type of material whose properties can be changed with an external stimuli, represent a promising direction to expand upon existing robotic control and actuation methods, particularly in the sub-fields of soft...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Nicholas

  • Risk-based design for multidisciplinary complex systems

    Creator:
    Farhangmehr, Farzaneh
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    The ultimate goal of large-scale design organizations are mainly to reduce costs and improve reliability and performance of systems while assessing how much risk (cost, schedule, scope) they can take and still remain competitive. To achieve this goal they need to develop tools to reach the most preferred design product...
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    would also like to thank the members of my committee to attend my defense: Prof. J. Zaworski, Prof. D

  • Risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among surgeons: comprehensive question pool development and a pilot study

    Creator:
    Kia, Kiana
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    Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are prevalent among surgeons due to a variety of risk factors. Various subjective tools have been used to investigate the associations between these risk factors and their contributions to the development of WMSDs. This study aimed to provide a summary of a collection of popular subjective...
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