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  • Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work cell

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hao
    Abstract:
    Sustainability has been the focus of intense discussions over the past two decades, with topics around the entire product life cycle. In the manufacturing phase, research has been focused solely on environmental impact assessment or environmental impact and cost analysis in its assessment of sustainability. However, few efforts have investigated...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    greatly valued. The author would also like to thank Dr. Kenneth H. Funk II for advising in human systems

  • A Method to Effectively Measure Sustainability in Non-Profit Organizations

    Creator:
    Vanlue, Mary Elizabeth
    Abstract:
    With the growing importance of sustainability, organizations in the non-profit sector need a way to measure, track, improve, and report their sustainability. Through research in current literature and a survey of practices within local non-profits, it is shown these organizations need a simple, flexible process with stakeholder participation to measure...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis

  • An economic and environmental assessment model for microchannel device manufacturing

    Creator:
    Gao, Qi
    Abstract:
    A key application of microchannel process technology (MPT) is its implementation in heat exchanger devices, since a larger surface contact area can be realized than in conventional approaches, thus achieving high heat transfer efficiency. To justify high volume production of configurations validated as prototypes, and to select from among the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    advice. I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Kenneth Funk, Dr. Brian Paul, Dr. Jair Lizarazo