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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...
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    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

  • Care Team Burnout: Predictors and Potential Intervention

    Creator:
    Alshaiji, Rawan A M A J
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    Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion and disconnectedness induced by continuous stress that affects various aspects of an individual’s life. Physicians experience burnout at a higher rate than other professions due to the highly stressful nature of their work. Consequently, physicians are at a higher risk of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    OF THE THESIS OF Rawan A M A J Alshaiji for the degree of Master of Science in Industrial

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

    Creator:
    Vanlue, Mary Elizabeth
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    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...
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    Honors College Thesis

  • Oxidative desulfurization of dibenzothiophene with tert-butyl hydro peroxide in a photochemical micro-reactor

    Creator:
    Hebert, Eilleen M.
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    Sulfur content in fuels is an increasingly critical environmental issue. Hydrodesulfurization removes sulfur from hydrocarbons; however, further desulfurization is necessary in fuels. New methods are required. In this study, micro-scaled single phase oxidative desulfurization is explored. An ultraviolet light-assisted micro-reactor is introduced for desulfurization of dibenzothiophene. Dibenzothiophene is mixed with...
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    Masters Thesis
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    support that has helped me complete this degree. I would like to also thank Dr. Kenneth Funk and Dr

  • A conceptual and strategy map for lean process transformation

    Creator:
    Mirdad, Waleed Khalid
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    Since the introduction of lean manufacturing by Toyota and publication by Womack and Jones, organizations have realized sizeable gains through lean process improvement. The spread of lean practices across organizations and industries – from manufacturing to healthcare and construction – requires adjustments of the lean process and, in the case...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Designed to fit : tailored technologies for medical practitioners

    Creator:
    de Brum, Silvina
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    Although electronic medical records systems (EMR) present promising benefits, they have not yet been widely adopted. A problem facing many EMR are that they are disruptive technologies; their complex hardware and software are not designed to account for the clinicians' characteristics and needs, thus, demanding a steep learning curve and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    worked with me on very tight deadlines. Committee members Dr. Kenneth Funk and Andrea Marks were also

  • An expert system for softwood lumber grading

    Creator:
    Zeng, Yimin
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    The focus of this research is to develop a prototype expert system for softwood lumber grading. The grading rules used in the knowledge base of the system are based on Western Lumber Grading Rules 88 published by the Western Wood Products Association. The system includes 27 grades in Dimension, Select/Finish,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    successful completion of this thesis. I wish to thank Dr. Kenneth Funk and Dr. Eldon Olsen for

  • Defining and comparing risks and success measures of the reference design process and traditional new product development processes

    Creator:
    Larson, Tasha M.
    Abstract:
    To address aggressive global competition, retain customers and increase revenue, firms are required to pursue New Product Development (NPD) projects. Ventures of this nature are risky and fail often. Numerous factors influence the survival of a project. In this research, 16 factors have been identified and selected as indicators of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • An investigation of Chinese quality circle effectiveness : critical success factors and outcomes

    Creator:
    Li, Jing
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    This research studied the relationship between three input variables and outcomes related to the use of quality circles (QCC) in a Chinese manufacturing company. After a thorough review of the literature, three managerial input variables were identified, including goal clarity, goal difficulty, and management support. Five outcomes were measured, including...
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    Masters Thesis
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    support were greatly valued. I would also like to thank Kenneth Funk, Karl Haapala, and John Parmigiani

  • Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of continuous improvement training

    Creator:
    Wiseman, Lindsay M.
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    Training is a key business process used to increase the skills and knowledge of employees in an effort to improve overall performance. Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of training processes is necessary to ensure time, money, and resources are used to provide the most benefit possible. This investigation is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Calvo, Peña, & Domingo, 2009; Bagadia, 2008; Jorgensen & Kofoed, 2007; Liker & J. M. Morgan, 2006

  • Investigating socio-technical factors in short-term continuous improvement project effectiveness

    Creator:
    Stelson, Paul Martinez
    Abstract:
    Lean manufacturing, or more generally continuous improvement (CI), has been the methodology behind significant improvements in quality, work in process inventory reductions, lead time reduction and cost reduction while conversely being associated with failed implementations and occasionally with unpopular work practices. This research focused on promoting understanding of CI methodology...
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    other committee members Dr. Kenneth Funk, Dr. Brian Paul and Dr. Charles Brunner for their time

  • Failure state identification for requirements development during complex system design

    Creator:
    Mueller, Jonathan D.
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    The increasing level of complexity in systems creates a growing challenge for engineers to design safe and reliable systems. The growing complexity can lead to possible moments when situations occur that were unanticipated or were not known that they could occur by designers and leave the system in an undesirable...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • An ontology-based system for representation and diagnosis of electrocardiogram (ECG) data

    Creator:
    Dendamrongvit, Thidarat
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    Electrocardiogram (ECG) data are stored and analyzed in different formats, devices, and computer platforms. There is a need to have an independent platform to support ECG processes among different resources for the purposes of improving the quality of health care and proliferating the results from research. Currently, ECG devices are...
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    Dissertation
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    suggestions, Dr. Michael Savitt, Dr. Kenneth Funk, and Dr. Mark Pagell for serving on my committee. I am

  • Automated manipulation of zebrafish embryos for high-throughput toxicology screening of nanomaterials

    Creator:
    Mandrell, David
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    The field of nanotechnology has been rapidly developing new materials. These materials have become incorporated into consumer products and the environment after only minimal assessment of their effects on human health or the environment. The toxicity of these new nanomaterials remains unknown due to the unpredictable nature of the core...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Vehicle routing and scheduling with delivery and installation

    Creator:
    Kim, Kyoung Cheol
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    For manufacturing and service industries to stay competitive in this rapidly changing, globalized world, one of the most important operations, and one that many businesses struggle to plan and manage efficiently, is material handling. There has been a large amount of research on various vehicle routing problems (VRPs) in recent...
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    Dissertation
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    develop an understanding of the subject. My gratitude extends to my committee members, Dr. Kenneth H

  • Two-stage flexible flow shop scheduling with blocking constraint and batching machines

    Creator:
    Panahi, Hadi
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    In this dissertation, a two stage flexible flow shop scheduling problem is studied, where in stage 1, there are identical batch processors (burnout ovens) and in stage 2, there are identical discrete processors (furnaces). Batch processors perform a pre-heating process on a batch of jobs at a time and discrete...
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    Dissertation
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    times. Machine-dependent setup time is realized for a job-machine pair (i, j) when job i is the first

  • A Vision System for Automatic Dendrometry and Forest Mapping

    Creator:
    Wells, Lucas A.
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    In pursuit of global sustainability, forestry has witnessed significant shifts in practices and the development of new technologies and ideas. Primary and secondary processing industries have made substantial efforts to increase wood utilization rates, improve occupational safety and the working environment for humans, and have exhibited interest in procuring raw...
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    Dissertation
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Project guidance Woodam Chung1 Jenny Perth2 Ed Messerlie2 Kenneth Funk1 Sinisa Todorovic1

  • An economic and environmental assessment model for microchannel device manufacturing

    Creator:
    Gao, Qi
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    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

  • The effects of CI tools and implementation practices on hospital performance

    Creator:
    Holliday, John W.
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    Continuous Improvement (CI) is an integral part of hospital administration. This study examined the relationship between five CI variables against six hospital criterion measures of, wait times to prepare a room, patient costs per day, waiting time for lab results, reportable errors, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction. The research was...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • A study of the impact of collaborative and simulation sessions on learning lean principles and methods

    Creator:
    Choomlucksana, Juthamas
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    This research is aimed at obtaining a better understanding of the impact of the use of collaborative and simulation sessions for learning lean principles and methods. Study participants were enrolled in a Lean Manufacturing System Engineering (IE436/536) course at Oregon State University or at three other business and engineering universities...
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    Dissertation
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    members and graduate representative, Dr. Kenneth Funk, Dr. David Porter, Dr. Darlene Russ-Eft, and Dr