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Buying a House: The Decision-Making Process, Bindu Chilka, Hashir Kidwai, Mubarak Al-Khaili, Saad A. Siddiqui, and Scott Leavengood
Writing in the Contact Zone: Three Portraits of Reflexivity and Transformation, Laurene L. Christensen
Modeling and Computing Probabilities of NBA Players Shooting Averages: Empirical and Theoretic Distributions, Gokhan Ciftci, Sarka Dluhosova, and Serhat Ozcanli
Querying Geographically Dispersed, Heterogeneous Data Stores: The PPerfXchange Approach, Matthew Edward Colgrove
Improving Roll Call at the Clackamas County Sheriff Office, Rod Conduragis, Joy Heredos, Doug Heredos, and Lynn Schoenfeld
Empirical and Theoretical Distribution Comparison “Customer Analysis”, Kitti Dachavorawuth and Wissanu Sumitsawan
Public outreach and the "hows" of archaeology : archaeology as a model for education, Jon Darin Daehnke
PeopleSoft Payroll/Time & Labor 8.0 Implementation, Cem Demirci, Faith Ersan, Sam Majam, and Thang Nguyen
Microsoft: Corporate Strategies and Technology Management, Ahmet Ege, Peerawut Kantawat, Ray McCormack, Natthapong Viriyarojanakul, Tassawan Wongsuebchart, and Tolga Yakar
Analysis of European Union Framework Programs General Criticisms -- Critical Issues, Ahmet Ege, Tolga Yakar, Peerawut Kantawat, Natthapong Viriyarojanakul, Tassawan Wongsuebchart, and Ray McCormack
Optimizing the Selection of Information System Architectures, Stan Feighny, Diane Keil, Martin Rinne, and Senthil Natarajan
Team Report 2: Team Self-Diagnosis, Aarob Fenberg, Evan Hall, Joao Simoes, Kitti Dachavorawuth, Kittinan Boonserm, and Sam Majam
Term Project: Statistical Analysis of Baby Birth Patterns in Oregon (1985-2000), Aaron Freier, Ahmet Ege, Fatih Ersan, and Seyhun Hepdogan
Control of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age, Aaron Freier, Fatih Ersan, Serin Duplantis, Bob Wang, and Brian Bluelake
Increase in the Customer Satisfaction of Users of the PSU Computer Labs by Increasing the Quality of Service and Equipment, Pisek Gerdsri, Massoud Massarat, and Priya Ajgaonkar
Lab and Lab Case Tracking Software Development Project, Ashish Gupta, Navarat Anankavanich, Supachart Iamratanakul, Thuchchai Piyakulchaidej, Brian Patterson, Kitti Dachavorawuth, Saad A. Siddiqui, and Hashir Kidwai
Risk Management System for E - BilL OPerations (e-BLOP): Application: e-BLOP For Netzee, Inc., Ashish Gupta, Bindu Chilka, Rajkumar Swamy, and Rohit Srivastava
Team #1: Team Report #2, Ashish Gupta, Brian Patterson, Khanh Nguyen, Rohit Srivastava, Thuchchai Piyakulchaidej, and Wendy Christensen
Courseware Standardization at OHSU: An Evaluation of Project Selection Criteria, Bridget Haggerty
Case Study: Biotechnology, Lydia Haid, Halime Sarihan, Jod Oudom, Juan Carlos Ospina, Richard Klein, and Daniel Soose
Supply Chain Management: Competitive Advantage in a Digital Economy, Lydia Haid, Halime Sarihan, Jod Oudom, Juan Carlos Ospina, Richard Klein, and Daniel Soose
Software Development Task Optimization: PowerPoint Presentation, Evan Hall, Tobiah Halter, Quinn Collett, and Guvenc Eren
Leadership of Creativity, A Vital Link to Combat Groupthink, Matthew M. Hickey
The Future of Global Positioning System Technology, Matthew M. Hickey, Ali Afsin Bulbul, Faheem Jan, Mehmet Can Erginsoy, Saad A. Siddiqui, and Sarka Dluhosova
The Columbia River Channel Deepening Project Balancing the Decision Using a Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM), Matthew M. Hickey, Sarka Dluhosova, Brian Bluelake, Juan Carlos Ospina, Fatih Ersan, Sam Majam, and Mehmet Can Erginsoy