Now showing items 91-100 of 102
Haptic Steering Interfaces for Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
(2021)
Autonomous vehicles are predicted to significantly improve transportation quality by reducing traffic congestion, fuel expenditure and road accidents. However, until autonomous vehicles are reliable in all scenarios, human ...
Networked Miscommunication: The Relationship Between Communication Networks, Misunderstandings, and Organizational Performance
(2020)
In this dissertation, I introduce and define the concept of networked miscommunication – unintentional, aggregated effects of communication practices throughout an organization – and demonstrate its deleterious impacts on ...
Improving Worker Performance with Human-Centered Data Science
(2021)
Advances in information technologies not only provide novel tools to support work in the traditional sectors; they also create additional employment opportunities in the modern workforce where work contexts have been largely ...
On the Combustion Chemistry of Biofuels and The Activist Engineer.
(2012)
This dissertation presents detailed work on the chemical kinetics of biofuel/fossil fuel blends through experimental combustion studies, and explores whether or not issues of the environment have changed the way engineers ...
Incentive and Culture: Shaping Information and Social Dynamics in Online Information Sharing Systems.
(2011)
The most revolutionary power of the Internet lies in the way it changes people’s collaborative work, aggregating social knowledge at an ever-increasing speed. This trend has been manifested in a variety of social information ...
Understanding the Importance of an Energy Crisis.
(2009)
Human development and energy, in general, and electrical energy, specifically, co-exist seamlessly in high HDI countries where reliability and availability is greater than 99%. In numerous low HDI countries, there is 2-50% ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products
(2008)
This dissertation incorporates the construction of preference into engineering design methodology. Currently, engineers view customer preferences as existing a priori, evoking metaphors such as “need-finding.” For some ...
Quantifying Perception-Based Attributes in Design: A Case Study on the Perceived Environmental Friendliness of Vehicle Silhouettes.
(2010)
Design optimization problems have traditionally used engineering functionality attributes to inform the design of products and systems. However, the quantification and inclusion of subjective attributes has become a necessary ...
What Competencies Should Undergraduate Engineering Programs Emphasize? A Dilemma of Curricular Design that Practitioners' Opinions Can Inform.
(2008)
Designing a curriculum is a multifaceted challenge. Issues concerning implementation of the curriculum plan must be considered simultaneously with questions about what competencies students should have upon graduation and ...
Memory, Interference and Depression.
(2010)
This dissertation explores the role of interference in short-term memory and how interference in memory may influence depression. The first chapter tackles whether forgetting in the short-term is due to decay with the ...