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Socio-Cognitive Analysis of Engineering Systems Design: Shared Knowledge, Process, and Product (.pdf)
By Mark Avnet, PhD

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Evaluating the Impact of Advanced Vehicle and Fuel Technologies in U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet (.pdf)
By Anup Bandivadekar, PhD

Qualitative Knowledge Construction for Engineering Systems: Extending the Design Structure Matrix Methodology in Scope and Procedure (.pdf)
By Jason Bartolomei, PhD

Integrating Demand into the U.S. Electric Power System: Technical, Economic, and Regulatory Frameworks for Responsive Load (.pdf)
By Jason Black, PhD

Commonality in Complex Product Families: Implications of Divergence and Lifecycle Offsets (.pdf)
By Ryan Boas, PhD

Scalability of the Air Transportation System and Development of Multi-Airport Systems: A Worldwide Perspective (.pdf)
By Philippe Bonnefoy, PhD

A Method for Analysis of Expert Committee Decision-Making Applied to FDA Medical Device Panels (.pdf)
By David Broniatowski, PhD

Modeling and Analyzing Cost, Schedule, and Performance in Complex System Product Development (.pdf)
By Tyson Browning, PhD

Guardians at the Gates of Hell: Estimating the Risk of Nuclear Theft and Terrorism – and Identifying the Highest-Priority Risks of Nuclear Theft (.pdf)
By Matthew Bunn, PhD

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Architectures for a Space-Based Information Network with Shared On-Orbit Processing (.pdf)
By Serena Chan, PhD

Electricity Demand-Side Management for an Energy Efficient Future in China: Technology Options and Policy Priorities (.pdf)
By Chia-Chin Cheng, PhD

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Enabling Systems Thinking to Accelerate the Development of Senior Systems Engineers (.pdf)
By Heidi Davidz, PhD

The Liability of Carbon Dioxide Storage (.pdf)
By Mark de Figueiredo, PhD

Operational Flexibility in Complex Enterprises: Case Studies from Recent Military Operations (.pdf)
By John Dickmann, PhD

Air Quality and Intelligent Transportation Systems: Understanding Integrated Innovation, Deployment and Adaptation of Public Technologies (.pdf)
By Rebecca Dodder, PhD

A Multi-Attribute Value Assessment Method for the Early Product Development Phase With Application to the Business Airplane Industry (.pdf)
By Troy Downen, PhD

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Market-based Airport Demand Management: Theory, Model and Applications (.pdf)
By Terence Ping-Ching Fan, PhD

Linking Modularity and Cost: A Methodology to Assess Cost Implications of Product Architecture Differences to Support Product Design (.pdf)
By Sebastian Fixson, PhD

Coastal Communities and Climate Change: A Dynamic Model of Risk Perception, Storms, and Adaptation (.pdf)
By Travis Franck, PhD

The Impact of Manufacturing Offshore on Technology Development Paths in the Automotive and Optoelectronics Industries (.pdf)
By Erica Fuchs, PhD

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Mission Emphasis and the Determination of Needs for New Weapon Systems (.pdf)
By Daniel Gillespie, PhD

Understanding Enterprise Behavior using Hybrid Simulation of Enterprise Architecture (.pdf)
By Christopher Glazner, PhD

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Knowledge Integration for Problem Solving in the Development of Complex Aerospace Systems (.pdf)
By Marc Haddad, PhD

Understanding and Applying the Concept of Sustainable Development
to Transportation Planning and Decision-Making in the U.S.
(.pdf)
By Ralph Hall, PhD

A Model to Design a Stochastic and Dynamic Ground Delay Program Subject to Non-Linear Cost Functions (.pdf)
By Michael Hanowsky, PhD

Standards as Interdependent Artifacts: the Case of the Internet (.pdf)
By Mo-Han Hsieh, PhD

Innovation in the Life Sciences: the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Scientific Knowledge Diffusion, Accumulation and Utilization (.pdf)
By Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang, PhD

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Platforms and Flexibility in Large-Scale Engineering Systems (.pdf)
By Konstantinos Kalligeros, PhD

Networking Technology Adoption: System Dynamics Modeling of Fiber-to-the-Home (.pdf)
By Andjelka Kelic, PhD

Command in Air War: Centralized vs. Decentralized Control of Combat Air Power (.pdf)
By Michael Kometer, PhD

A Meta-language for Systems Architecting (.pdf)
By Benjamin Koo, PhD

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Group Decision Making in a Prototype Engineering System: The Federal Open Market Committee (.pdf)
By Christopher Lawson, PhD

Exploring Flexible Strategies in Engineering Systems Using Screening Models: Applications to Offshore Petroleum Projects (.pdf)
By Jijun Lin, PhD

Hierarchy in Industry Architecture: Transaction Strategy under Technological Constraints (.pdf)
By Jianxi Luo, PhD

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Globally Distributed Product Development: Role of Complexity in the What, Where and How (.pdf)
By Pedzisayi Makumbe, PhD

Implementing a Time- and Location-Differentiated Cap-and-Trade Program: Flexible Nitrogen Oxide Abatement from Power Plants in the Eastern United States (.pdf)
By Katherine Martin, PhD

The Duality of Innovation: Implications for the Role of the University in Economic Development (.pdf)
By Carlos Martínez-Vela, PhD

A Life-Cycle Flexibility Framework for Designing, Evaluating, and Managing "Complex" Real Options: Case Studies in Urban Transportation and Aircraft Systems (.pdf)
By Joshua McConnell, PhD

The Micro-foundations of Alignment among Sponsors and Contractors
on Large Engineering Projects
(.pdf)
By Nicholas McKenna, PhD

New Venture Commercialization of Clean Energy Technologies (available on DSpace)
By David Miller, PhD

Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design Process for Engineering Systems (.pdf)
By Ali Mostashari, PhD

System Transition: Dynamics of Change in the US Air Transportation System (.pdf)
By Aleksandra Mozdzanowska, PhD

Beating the System: Accelerating Commercialization of New Materials (.pdf)
By Christopher Musso, PhD

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Shaping the Terms of Competition: Environmental Regulation and Corporate Strategies to Reduce Diesel Vehicle Emissions (.pdf)
By Christine Ng, PhD

A Multi-Domain Process Design and Improvement Framework (.pdf)
By Robert Nicol, PhD

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Improving Product Availability in Hospitals: the Role of Inventory Inaccuracies (.pdf)
By David Opolon, PhD

Architectural Innovation, Functional Emergence and Diversification in Engineering Systems (.pdf)
By Carlos Osorio-Urzúa, PhD

Using Phase Space Attractors to Evaluate System Safety Constraint Enforcement: Case Study in Space Shuttle Mission Control Procedure Rework (.pdf)
By Brandon Owens, PhD

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A Methodology to Capture, Evaluate and Reformulate a Firm's Supply Chain Strategy as a Conceptual System (.pdf)
By Roberto Perez-Franco, PhD

Toward a Theory of the Evolution of Business Ecosystems: Enterprise Architectures, Competitive Dynamics, Firm Performance and Industrial Co-Evolution (pdf: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV)
By Theodore Piepenbrock, PhD

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Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration for Survivability (.pdf)
By Matthew Richards, PhD

Managing Unarticulated Value: Changeability in Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (.pdf)
By Adam Ross, PhD

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Climate Policy Design: Interactions among Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Urban Air Pollution Constraints (.pdf)
By Marcus Sarofim, PhD

Symbiotic Strategies in Enterprise Ecology: Modeling Commercial Aviation as an Enterprise of Enterprises (.pdf)
By Sgouris Sgouridis, PhD

Open Collaborative System Design A Strategic Framework with Application to Biotechnology (.pdf)
By Matthew Silver, PhD

System Architecture Analysis and Selection Under Uncertainty (.pdf)
By Rudolf Smaling, PhD

An Algorithmic Approach to System Architecting Using Shape Grammar-Cellular Automata (.pdf)
By Thomas Speller, Jr., PhD

Creating High Performance Enterprises (.pdf)
By Alexis Stanke, PhD

Energy System Development in Africa: The case of grid and off-grid power in Kenya (.pdf)
By Katherine Deaton Steel, PhD

Ensembles of Adaptive One-Factor-at-a-time Experiments: Methods, Evaluation, and Theory (.pdf)
By Nandan Sudarsanam, PhD

Flexible Product Platforms (.pdf)
By Eun Suk Suh, PhD

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Corporate Decision Analysis: An Engineering Approach (.pdf)
By Victor Tang, PhD

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Identifying Expression Fingerprints using Linguistic Information (.pdf)
By Özlem Uzuner, PhD

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The End of Core: Should Disruptive Innovation in Telecommunication Invoke Discontinuous Regulation? (.pdf)
By Chintan Vaishnav, PhD

Technology and Policy Options for Reducing Industrial Air Pollutants in the Mexican City Metropolitan Area (.pdf)
By Samudra Vijay, PhD

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Sequential Optimization through Adaptive Design of Experiments (.pdf)
By Hungjen Wang, PhD

Real Options "in" Projects and Systems Design – Identification of Options and Solution for Path Dependency (.pdf)
By Tao Wang, PhD

Identifying Enterprise Leverage Points in Defense Acquisition Program Performance (.pdf)
By J. Robert Wirthlin, PhD

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A Screening Model to Explore Planning Decisions in Automotive Manufacturing Systems under Demand Uncertainty (.pdf)
By Yingxia Yang, PhD

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Effective Information Integration and Reutilization: Solutions to Technological Deficiency and Legal Uncertainty (.pdf)
By Hongwei "Harry" Zhu, PhD

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