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Improvement to PSU Dining Services Catering Process for Student Groups and Clubs, Andy Barrett, Gary Ficek, Watjana Linhavess, and Markus Zepf
Knowledge Management, Oliver Baumann, Dulyapun Buranawit, Hongyi Chen, David Loewi, and Matthias Woehrle
Strategic and Policy Issues Paper on the Dell Computer Corporation, Oliver Baumann, Dulyapun Buranawit, Hongyi Chen, David Loewi, and Matthias Woehrle
Social, Economical, Political and Technological Environment’s Impacts on A Company’s Strategic Direction: A Case Analysis in TURKEY, Ali Serdar Bayram
Production Scheduling for OCS Blount Corporation, Ali Serdar Bayram, Fatih Ersan, and Seyhun Hepdogan
Project Delivery Systems: Analysis of the IMAX Light Rail Project, Ali Serdar Bayram, John Garlitz, Daniel Soose, Wissanu Sumitsawan, and Chuck Yang
Economic Analysis of Print Quota System at Portland State University, Ali Serdar Bayram, Naveen Mundanda, Kittinan Boonserm, Navarat Anankavanich, and Chen Yu
The Removable Data Storage Market, Ali Serdar Bayram, Dale Rook, Diane Keil, Dionne Auyeung, Jim Kenney, Seyhun Hepdogan, and Sulaiman Magboul
Trolley Trail: An Assessment of Opportunities and Constraints, Jennifer Bell, Michele Healy, Stacy Burnett, Beth Park, and Jennifer Shively
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