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Decision Model for Selection of a Senior Program Manager for Rovi Corporation, Asem Alluhibi, Fannie Black, Shabnam Razeghian Jahromi, Pinprapa Pakdeekasem, and Alex Trolese
Technology Assessment and Attractive Analysis of a New Concrete Modifier, Asem Alluhibi, Farshad Madani, and Pinprapa Pakdeekasem
Common Practices to Handle Key Challenges in Managing Virtual Teams, Asem Alluhibi, Alex Trolese, Puniti Singla, Sara Bahrini, Shabnam R. Jahromi, and Matt Nickeson
Team 1 Process Report, Asem Alluhibi, Kevin C. van Blommestein, Shabnam Razeghian Jahromi, Matt Nickeson, and Shamla Puthuparambil
Project Glass: Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses, Manar Al Mallak, Nameer Al-Mulla, Sarah Griffis, Rachanida Koosawangsri, Tri Nguyen, and Sajeda Tamimi
Forecasting the viability of Thin Film Solar PV Systems, Manar Al Mallak, Niharika Jeena, Isaac Pendergrass, and Sumir Varma
Brazil: A Technological Poster Child, Nameer Al-Mulla, Melvin Cooper, Colette Cox, Ryan Menze, Michael Uffelman, and David Ulrich
Open Source Medical Solutions, Rami Alshafi and Joseph King
Let's Try to Change It: Psychiatric Stigmatization, Consumer/Survivor Activism, and the Link and Phelan Model, María Jimena Alvarado Chavarría
Informal Learning Choices of Japanese ESL Students in the United States, Brent Harrison Amburgey
The Lived Experience of High School Policy Debate in Oregon, Ameena AnnaMaria Amdahl-Mason
TFDEA Application for Solar Industry, Mitra Amini, Sara Bahrini, Manar Al Mallak, Sajeda Tamimi, and Daria Spatar
Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Adoption, Mitra Amini, Puniti Singla, Jonathan Lui, Craig Kensel, and Joseph Lethlean
The Effects of Hypoxia and Temperature on Developing Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Skye N. Anderson
Perceived Isolation, Social Integration, and Health Behavior: A Daily Process Examination of Responses to Loneliness, Sarah Noel Arpin
A Study on Crowd Funding via Social Media and its Differences from Traditional Funding Methods, Sara Bahrini, Elizabeth Gibson, Shabnam R. Jahromi, Kayvan Javadi, Rupha Natarajan, and Matt Nickeson
Voicing Oppositional Conformity: Sarah Winnemucca and the Politics of Rape, Colonialism, and "Citizenship": 1870-1890, Jennifer Bailey
Using Dataflow Optimization Techniques with a Monadic Intermediate Language, Justin George Bailey
Anna of Denmark: Expressions of Autonomy and Agency as a Royal Wife and Mother, Anastasia Christine Baker
Application of Inter-Die Rank Statistics in Defect Detection, Vivek Bakshi
Team 5 Business Plan Project, Aparna Balasubramanian, Michael Uffelman, Asem Alluhibi, Opinderjit Bhella, Garrett Gilliland, and Neil Runde
A Fault-Tolerant Alternative to Lockstep Triple Modular Redundancy, Andrew Lockett Baldwin
Insights and Blind Spots: A Qualitative Analysis of Risk in Psychiatric Security Review Board Hearings, Abby Kealani Balfour
Technology Roadmapping for Medical Imaging: Towards Improved Value, Larry Ball, Ritu Bidasaria, Ignacio Castillejos, Pinprapa Pakdeekasem, and Chakaphan Pornsatit
Medical Device Sales Distribution Model, Larry Ball, Ritu Bidasaria, Kevin C. van Blommestein, Yonghee Cho, Jared Nambwenya, and Matt Nickeson