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College Football Rankings: An Industrial Engineering Approach, Brent H. Wiles
College Football Rankings: An Industrial Engineering Approach, Brent H. Wiles
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
In using an industrial engineering approach, we utilize optimization and mathematical modeling techniques to rank college football teams when viewed as a quadratic assignment problem.
Disaster Relief Models: Location Of Points Of Distribution, Othman Boudhoum
Disaster Relief Models: Location Of Points Of Distribution, Othman Boudhoum
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
This project consists of developing a Location Allocation model that focuses on determining the locations of relief supply Points of Distribution (PODs) after a natural disaster and how to assign demand points to them. According to FEMA, PODs are “centralized locations where the public picks up life sustaining commodities following a disaster or emergency†[1]. After each disaster, decisions have to be made to ensure a good delivery of resources in a timely manner. The road infrastructure may be damaged due to the disaster. Some roads might become inoperable, and some bridges are expected to fail. The model studied in …
Emerging Technology In Healthcare And The Associated Environmental Impacts, Sarah Wood
Emerging Technology In Healthcare And The Associated Environmental Impacts, Sarah Wood
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Hospitals are continually examining ways in which technology can be used to improve patient care and to stay competitive. For example, robotic surgery has been rapidly adopted at many hospitals throughout the United States to address this need. Some evidence suggests that robotic surgery has better clinical results than open and laparoscopic surgeries, but little data exists to measure the sustainability of robotic surgery technologies. A team of researchers at the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Research at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arkansas collected and analyzed data to determine the environmental impacts of four modes of hysterectomy …
Cost Distribution Analysis Of Remote Monitoring System Use In The Treatment Of Chronic Diseases, Adeola Yusuf
Cost Distribution Analysis Of Remote Monitoring System Use In The Treatment Of Chronic Diseases, Adeola Yusuf
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The cost of the treatment of chronic diseases is very high and this has a huge impact on the health-care system. Several factors contribute to this high cost. Some of these include the direct costs of treatment and the costs of several potential complications that arise as a result of the presence of other diseases. The goal of this study is to evaluate a cost-effective way of managing some of the common chronic diseases by analyzing the potential cost savings of utilizing remote monitoring systems (RMS) as opposed to the use of the traditional bundle (which includes regular visits to …
Decision Support Tool For Operations Management Course And Instructor Scheduling, Morgan Ulesich
Decision Support Tool For Operations Management Course And Instructor Scheduling, Morgan Ulesich
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The goal of this project is develop a decision support tool that will assist the Operations Management Department at the University of Arkansas with scheduling courses and instructors for the upcoming academic year. The staff of the department dreads this time each year because it takes countless hours to complete the daunting task. Creating an abstract mathematical model will assist the department in scheduling the courses. The model will have the ability to optimize the schedule of the courses and instructors from a large number of variables and constraints that the department requires. An optimization software package can solve the …
A Duration-Of-Stay Storage Policy In The Physical Internet, Robert Curry
A Duration-Of-Stay Storage Policy In The Physical Internet, Robert Curry
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
This article investigates and analyzes the implementation and effectiveness of a Duration-of-Stay torage policy in the Physical Internet. Rather than being stored according to SKU-based information, containers in the Physical Internet are able to gain efficiency through storage according to their length of stay in the warehouse. Data and observations come from different given levels of expected throughput, variance in throughput, and number of storage locations within a unit-load warehouse. The level of efficiency within the system proves to be directly dependent on these different inputs. Whereas an increase in the expected throughput will yield an increase in the overall …