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Environmental Middle School Making the Connection: Locally grown food and the Portland Public Schools' Meal program, Paul Bender, Daniela Brod, Lauren Maloney, April Siebenaler, and David Stocker
City of Sherwood Transit Plan, Keith Benjamin, Gary Berger, Shimon Isreal, Mauricio Leclerc, Ethan Spoo, and Carl Switzer
Impact of Public Transit Investment on Travel Pattern and Land Use, Jaturapat Bhiromkaew
Oregon Log Buyers Database, James Bland, Wendy Christensen, Diane Keil, Scott Leavengood, and Khanh Nguyen
Xerox and Xerography, Brian Bluelake, Fatih Ersan, Aaron Freier, Serin Hudson, and Bob Wang
Human Genomics of Biotechnology, Brian Bluelake, Bob Wang, Serin Hudson, Fatih Ersan, and Aaron Freier
Modeling and Computing Probabilities of Random Variables: Visitor Observation Website Analysis, Kittinan Boonserm and Thuchchai Piyakulchaidej
Feng Shui and Chinese Rituals of Death across the Oregon Landscape, Andrew Ryall Briggs
Call Center Scheduling: Research Data Design Inc., Alain Brúlé, William Eisenhauer, Phasin Komonchaisak, Proadpran Pringsulaka, and Srisak Punayangkool
The response to left-wing radicalism in Portland, Oregon, from 1917 to 1941, Andrew Nils Bryans
Emergency Project Management in Ground Zero, A. Afsin Bulbul, Yu Chen, Ahmet Ege, Diana Laboy-Rush, Elvan Ozar, Suttha Suriyabhivadh, and Natthapong Viriyarojanakul
Employee Outsourcing Optimization Project, Ali Afsin Bulbul, Cheryl Duarte, Timour Khamnayev, Archie Patdu, Joao Simoes, and Saad A. Siddiqui
Selection of US Candidate City for 2012 Summer Olympic Host City, Ali Afsin Bulbul, Pisek Gerdsri, Diana Laboy-Rush, Tony Sandiford, and Suttha Suriyabhivadh
European Union, Ali Afsin Bulbul, Faheem Jan, Matthew M. Hickey, Mehmet Can Erginsoy, Saad A. Siddiqui, and Sarka Dluhosova
Project Management Framework Proposal: for Office of Information Technology at Portland State University, Dulyapun Buranawit, Heshan Jayasuriya, Phasin Komonchaisak, Suttha Suriyabhivadh, and Ivan Patricio Hernandez
Motorola Global Strategy, Dulyapun Buranawit, Phasin Komonchaisak, and Wissanu Sumitsawan
Team Report No. 2: The Evolution of a Culturally-Different High Performance Team, Daniel Campean, C. Chung-Sine, Shane LaBelle, Khoi Le, and Archie Patdu
A Reactive Model of the Innovation-Decision Process, Brent Capps
Choosing a Ph.D. Topic, Brent Capps
Project Management Framework, Eddie Cespedes, Fatih Ersan, Javier Espinoza, Priya Ajgaonkar, and Stephen Knewitz
Forest Landscape Change Detection in the Meseta Purépecha, Michoacán, México, John Malcolm Chase
Ballard Power Systems Fuel Cells, Avnish Chauhan, Lydia Haid, Doug Harms, Jod Oudom, and Atsunobu Takeshita
Internet Access Time for PSU Students, Che-Min Cheng
Enron: Strategic Impacts on Technology Management, Che-Min Cheng, Julie Cyris, John Garlitz, Watjana Linhavess, and Panumas Siritianthong
HP/Compaq Merger: Merging Technological Innovation, Che-Min Cheng, Julie Cyris, John Garlitz, Watjana Linhavess, and Panumas Siritianthong