This collection contains research reports authored by students and student teams in the Engineering and Technology Management program at Portland State University (PSU), and serve to partially fulfill their requirements for Master's degrees in Engineering and Technology Management.
Many reports are openly available to researchers anywhere. However, due to the inclusion of proprietary content in the reports many are limited to PSU students, staff and faculty.
Submissions from 1995
Project Management Structure Based on IndustryEnvironments, Ed Buescher, Rawee Chaimongkol, Jerry Knoben, Art Louie, Al Pierce, Tim Schnidler, and Usanee Thiravaja (Closed Project)
Economic Analysis: Neal Creek Bridge, PhuongLan Bui, Susan Goodwin, and Lam Han (Closed Project)
Small Package Operating Facility Design, Judith Bulski, Paul Bulski, Sharon Cibula, and Andi Tan (Closed Project)
Capital Expansion Project-Administrative Office Space, Paul Bulski (Closed Project)
A Coordination Structure Approach to the management of Projects, Ruth Burris (Closed Project)
Cross-Functional Project Teams: A Study of Communication, Motivation & Conflict Resolution, Ruth Burris, Eric Etheridge, Nandor Farkas, David Huffman, and Boris Litinsky (Closed Project)
Strategic and Policy Issues: Managing the Entrepreneur in Large Companies, Ruth Burris, Eric Etheridge, Nandor Farkas, David Huffman, and Boris Litinsky (Closed Project)
Reduction of Public Paging at Information, Inc., John Childs, Chin-Jai Jong, Vikki Scotti, Indra Surataruna, and Usanee Thiravaja (Closed Project)
A Project Management Study of the Warped Printed CircuitAssemblies Project, Roger Cox (Closed Project)
Leadership Qualities of Engineering Project Managers, Roger Cox, Paul Hamilton, Eric Kangas, Joe Mohr, and Steve Serna (Closed Project)
Evaluation of Potential Power Generation Projects for Entryinto Pacific Northwest Power Market, John Dorrance, Curt Mayer, Scott Samuels, and Patrick T. Van Hoomissen (Closed Project)
A Research Review of "Career Development Opportunities & Likelihood of Turnover Among R&D Professionals", Eric Etheridge (Closed Project)
The Dream Team, "Only as a Team Can We Succeed!", Karla Fant, Ted Gribble, Tony Madarieta, Tahir Mir, Jim Snell, and George Schultz (Closed Project)
A Critical Evaluation of Exploring the Success of Information Technology Enabled Business Process Reengineering, Karla Steinbrugge Fant (Closed Project)
Management of Intellectual Property: Copyrights and Patents, Karla Steinbrugge Fant, Ted Gribble, Ed Juline, Vikki Scotti, Alex Tran, and Robert Woolridge (Closed Project)
Open-Book Management, Karla Steinbrugge Fant, Ted Gribble, Ed Juline, Vikki Scotti, Alex Tran, and Robert Woolridge (Closed Project)
Employee Involvement in Quality Improvement: A Comparison of American and Japanese Manufacturing Firms Operating in the U.S, Nandor Farkas (Closed Project)
The Watchers Team Self Diagnosis, Chris Funke, Greg Nelson, and Hieu-Tony D. Ngo (Closed Project)
Increasing Semiconductor Manufacturing's Strategic Value to a Firm, Rob Gagnier (Closed Project)
Dream Team: Team Project, Peter Ghavami, Beth Gibson, Toryos Pandejpong, and Nattanon Pronanun (Closed Project)
Effects of Concurrent Engineering on Make-To Order Products, Peter K. Ghavami and Robert Handfield (Closed Project)
OCATE Marauders Team Self Assessment, Tim Gooding, Vidya Kale, Andy Narkiewicz, Jim Teeter, and Lee Urban (Closed Project)
Entrepreneurs' Experience, Expertise, and the Performance of Technology-Based Firms, Ted Gribble (Closed Project)
TBD Team Report, Jay Hah, Ziad Keirouz, Indra Surataruna, Raid Obeidi, and Hun Kye (Closed Project)
Transportation Simulation using LINDO, Simon Hans (Closed Project)
Innovation From Differentiation: Pollution Control Departments and Innovation in the Printed Circuit Industry, Khaled Haris (Closed Project)
A Coordination Structure Approach to the Management of Projects, David Huffman (Closed Project)
134 Questions, Marvin Joanis (Closed Project)
An Analysis of a Coordinate Measurement Machine Project atPrecision Castparts Corporations, Eric Kangas (Closed Project)
Asset Allocation & Mutual Fund Selection, Ling Kan (Closed Project)
Seletion of a Client Server Computer System for a SoftwareDeveloper, Ling Kan and Eric Kangas (Closed Project)
Individual Project Report, Ali Khashab (Closed Project)
Ball Grid Array Process Implementation, Jerry Knoben (Closed Project)
The use of Benchmarking as a management tool to achieve"Best-In-Class" Performance, Wah-Ying Kwong (Closed Project)
Intelligent Production Planning Systems, Michael Lazur and Vincent Scalesse (Closed Project)
Assessment of the Engineering Management Program at Portland State University, Michael Lazur, Vincent Scalesse, Jim Teeter, and Greg Wilt (Closed Project)
Effects of Concurrent Engineering on Make-to-Order Products, Chun-Yu Lin (Closed Project)
The Vulcain Project: A Project Management Organization, Sebastien Michelet (Closed Project)
The Engineering Feets, Amy Miller, Meggan Murphy, Cheryl Ronald, Keith Storie, and Tyson Terhaar (Closed Project)
Increasing Semiconductor Manufacturing's Strategic Value to AFirm, Tahir Mir (Closed Project)
Organizational Activity Analysis: A Methodology forAnalyzing and Improving Technical Organizations, Ruth Moreland (Closed Project)
World Views and Information Flows between First and Second Level Managers in an Information Technology Organization, Molly Olson (Closed Project)
Measures of Technology Transfer Effectiveness: KeyDimension and Differences in their Use by Sponsors, Developers andAdopters, Toryos Pandejpong (Closed Project)
Predicting Technical Communication in Product DevelopmentOrganization, Nattanon Pronanun (Closed Project)
Participatory Organizations within the Project Cycle, Thomas Rak (Closed Project)
Effects of Concurrent Engineering on Make-to-Order Products, Thomas K. Roth-Roffy (Closed Project)
Intel Strategic Policies and Issues, Tom Roth-Roffy, Robert Schneider, George Schultz, and S. J. (Closed Project)
Strategic Steps in the Implementation of New Technology (Windows '95 Case Study), Tom Roth-Roffy, Robert Schneider, George Schultz, and James Snell (Closed Project)
Use of Linear Programming to Solve a Production and Inventory Scheduling Problem, Anatole Schaff (Closed Project)
A Comparison and Analysis of Different CommunicationTechniques That May Be Utilized during the R&D, Design and Manufacturing Phases of a Project, Anatole Schaff, Linus Lin, Raid Obidi, Sebastien Michelet, Simon Hans, and Brian Breiling (Closed Project)
Business Process Management: Survey and Methodology, Robert J. Schneider (Closed Project)
Educating Innovation Managers: Strategic Issues of Businessand Higher Education, George Schultz (Closed Project)
Career Development Opportunities and Likelihood of Turnoveramong R&D Professionals, Vikki Scotti (Closed Project)
Educating Innovation Managers: Strategic Issues of Businessand Higher Education, Jim Snell (Closed Project)
Employee Involvement in Quality Improvement: A Comparison of American and Japanese Manufacturing Firms Operating in the US, Bud Stratton (Closed Project)
Optimizing Operations in theGasoline Storage Unit, Kawin Suvatte (Closed Project)
Paperless Engineering Documentation System, Martina Testa, Carl Wu, and Patricia Zarate (Closed Project)
Organizational Vision for Technology Assimilation: TheStrategic Roads to Knowledge-Based Systems Success, Usanee Thiravaja (Closed Project)
Prioritizing Telecommunications Technologies for Long-RangeR&D Planning to the Year 2006, Alex Tran (Closed Project)
Business Process Management: Survey and Methodology, Chanujarb Watanakithavonkul (Closed Project)
Prioritizing Telecommunications Technologies for Long-RangeR&D Planning to the Year 2006, Robert Woolridge (Closed Project)
A Newtonian Metaphor for Organizational Change, Janet Zhang (Closed Project)
Environmental Management System ISO 14000, Janet Zhang, Khaled Haris, Mike Coleman, Mohamed Al-Muhairi, Nattanon Pronanun, Tahir Mir, and Toryos Pandejpong (Closed Project)
Submissions from 1994
TQM: Effective Teams and the Organizational Culture Factor, John J. Alvarez (Closed Project)
Defect Reduction for Screen Printing, John J. Alvarez, Edward Buescher, Jerry Knoben, Thomas Rak, Fernando Rivera, and Akin Uslu (Closed Project)
Monitoring and Controlling Contractors in Software Development, John J. Alvarez, Ling Kan, Mike Posovich, Fernando Rivera, Akin Uslu, John Weisensee, and Wira Yuwana (Closed Project)
Evaluation and Improvement of the Customers Satisfaction at the PSU Cafeteria, Emad Armoush, Ségolène Badelon, Graydon Hansen, Razif Abdullah Razak, and Nicolas Renaud (Closed Project)
The TQM Application in the Automobile Industry: Comparison between Japan, Europe, and the U.S., Ségolène Badelon (Closed Project)
Doing Business in the People's Republic of China, Andy Baker, Dan Gildow, Danen Heath, Wah-Ying Kwong, Mike Posovich, and Rick Zhang (Closed Project)
An Evaluation of Re-engineering Projects in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Mete Bayyigit, Paul Gilbarg, John Stein, Jocelyn Yu, and Wira Yuwana (Closed Project)
An Expert Advisor for Graduate Students in the Engineering Management Program, Mete Bayyigit and Akin Uslu (Closed Project)
ISO 9000 Certification Projects: Four Companies Compared, Tim Bennington-Davis, Michael Lazur, J. Teeter, G. Wilt, and C. Winton (Closed Project)
Fostering Intrapreneurship within Established High Technology Companies: Critical Factors leading to Success, Helmut Brech, Abdurrauf Farrouge, Karen E. Howe, Barbara Jones, and Lee A. Urban (Closed Project)
Defender vs. Challenger Analysis, Edward Buescher (Closed Project)
Dr. Edwards Demings 14 Points and their Impact on the Quality Movement in Japan, Edward Buescher (Closed Project)
A TQM Implementation in North West Motor Welding Company, Edward Buescher, Fernando Rivera, Clifford W. Jones, John J. Alvarez, Eric Kangas, Akin Uslu, and Rick Markle (Closed Project)
Group Research Project on Joint Ventures, E. Buescher, Rob Hensel, Ling Kan, J. Thornton, D. Twitchell, and G. Wilt (Closed Project)
Analysis Some Factors to Create Models in Designing Evacuating Fans, Rawee Chaimongkol (Closed Project)
The Appropriate of Matrix Management in Various Organization Types, S. Chusanathans, A. Sonthinen, V. Puvanunt, and N. Tulananda (Closed Project)
Strategic and Policy Issues (SPI) Paper: The New Economy, Kim Cox, Karl Schorr, Mahasti Hastings, and Brita Kelly (Closed Project)
The Review of Liiterature on Evaluation of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies: Five Concerns Strategy, Technology, Market, Organization and Structure of Innovation Diffusion, Tugrul Daim (Closed Project)
The NPI Process in Electronics Manufacturing, M. Greenwood, S. Kiesow, J. L. Lim, R. Mazloomi, and K. Ping (Closed Project)
Comparison of Concurrent Engineering Management with Traditional Project Management, Jeff Grogan, Ali Khashab, Ghassan Abu-Hamdeh, and Roger Nordlund (Closed Project)
Strategic and Policy Issues Investigation "Leadership andTechnology Management", Paul Hamilton, Simon Hans, Sebastien Michelet, Pat VanHoomissen, and Oliver Woywode (Closed Project)
Justification for Total Quality Management, Graydon Hansen (Closed Project)
Improving a Present Manufacturing Process by Implementing TQM and ISO 9001, Graydon Hansen, Razif Abdullah Razak, Ségolène Badelon, Nicolas Renaud, and Emad Armoush (Closed Project)
Multiple Regression for Daily Chlorine Use, Vu Han (Closed Project)
An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Proceedings and Articles on Concurrent Engineering, Eckhard Heinold (Closed Project)
Management of Software Development, Richard Hendra, Mongkol Marmool, Srinivas Patnaik, and Chi Shih Wu (Closed Project)
Tooling Project Schedule Optimization Using Linear Programming, Paul Huebschman and Eric Kangas (Closed Project)
Re-Engineering: Service-Information Processes, Clifford Jones (Closed Project)
Effective Goals, Measurements, and Motivation for Total Quality Management, Eric Kangas (Closed Project)
Managing the Conversion to Concurrent Engineering, Ranjit Kurup, Sameeran Krishnatheeram, and Robert Wilson (Closed Project)
How Does the Oregon Department of Transportation Identify Their Customers and Determine What They Want, Art Louie (Closed Project)
Development of Self Directed Work Teams in Clackamas County Department of Utilities, Art Louie, Thomas A. Rak, Don Smith, Rini Tanoko, Ela Whelan, and Wira Yuwana (Closed Project)
Project Control in Industry, Curt Mayer, Dan McDonald, Sam Moss, and Scott Samuels (Closed Project)
Critical Success Factors in ISO 9000 Registration, Joe Mohr and Levent Neymen (Closed Project)
The Optimized Management of Manufacturing Projects in Concurrent Engineering Programs, D. Murray and S. Vollmoeller (Closed Project)
Cost/Benefit Model of Patent Rights, Shawn Oveson (Closed Project)
The New Economy: High-Tech Global Marketing and theEngineering Manager (Virtual Reality Exemplified), Shawn Oveson, Razif Abdullah Razak, Fuad Al-Ansari, Brian Breiling, Graydon Hanson, Roger Jones, Raid Obeidi, Anatole Schaff, and Hongbin Zhu (Closed Project)