Search Results - subject:"Systems engineering."

Disciplinarily Hetero- and Homogeneous Design Team Convergence: Communication Patterns and Perceptions of Teamwork

Adams, Shawnette K. - 2007

In todays worlds of industry and academia, teamwork is becoming more and more prevalent and is becoming more and more desirable when addressing certain tasks. Intensified and growing competition in the global marketplace is forcing businesses to produce better products, thereby, requiring the...

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A System Dynamics Approach Linking Employee Health, Quality Culture and Organizational Effectiveness

Sadia, Rina - 2006

A System Dynamics Approach Linking Employee Health, Quality Culture and Organizational EffectivenessRina SadiaAbstractThe purpose of this research is to investigate the interactions between organizational effectiveness, quality culture, and employee health. The system dynamics modeling approach...

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Sustainability of the Service-Profit Chain

Pasupathy, Kalyan Sunder - 2006

Managers in organizations make investment decisions all the time. These decisions have an impact on the bottom-line profits and on the market penetration of the organization. Some decisions have more impact than others do and not all such decisions are evaluated for their impact. The...

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Slot-Exchange Mechanisms and Weather-Based Rerouting within an Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision-Making Model

McCrea, Michael Victor - 2006

We develop and evaluate two significant modeling concepts within the context of a large-scale Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision-Making Model (APCDM) and, thereby, enhance its current functionality in support of both strategic and tactical level flight assessments. The first major...

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Capacity Investment, Flexibility, and Product Substitution/Complementarity under Demand Uncertainty

Suwandechochai, Rawee - 2006

We provide a comprehensive characterization of the relationship between optimal capacity and the degree of product substitution/complementarity under price/production postponement, considering different business practices (holdback versus clearance, negative price policies) and different demand...

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Determinants of team effectiveness for cross-functional organizational design teams

Van Aken, Eileen M. - 2006

Recent research indicates that teams are an essential element of most leading organizations (Mohrrnan, Cohen, & Mohrrnan, 1995). With the proliferation of team use comes the need for research to better define the design and management requirements unique to specific types of teams. This research...

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A decision support model for the cash replenishment process in South African retail banking

Adendorff, Susanna Aletta - 2006

The objective of the research was to establish a scientifically-based decision makingprocedure for determining the amount of cash to be held at a cash pointat any time without compromising the customer service level or incurring unduecost. To reach the objective, the problem was divided into the...

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Targeting and design of CWNs (cooling water networks)

Shenoy, Akshay U.; Shenoy, Uday V. - In: Energy 55 (2013) C, pp. 1033-1043

CWNs (cooling water networks) are targeted and designed in this work by an analytical approach requiring no graphical procedures. The key basis for the approach is the conversion of the cooling duties to equivalent inlet–outlet (demand–source) pairs. The UTA (Unified Targeting Algorithm) is...

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The application of systems engineering principles to the prioritization of sustainable nuclear fuel cycle options

Price, Robert R.; Singh, Bhupinder P.; MacKinnon, Robert J. - In: Energy Policy 53 (2013) C, pp. 205-217

We investigate the implementation of the principles of systems engineering in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fuel … sustainability objectives. The goal of the systems engineering approach is to transparently define and justify the research and … groups interested in U.S. energy policy. Furthermore, the use of systems engineering principles will allow the FCT Program to …

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A systematic approach to finding internal rate of return using the interpolation method, based on 'big vs. small' concept

Ng, Jun Jie - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 4 (2013) 3, pp. 278-284

Engineering economy entails the dollars-and-cents side of the decisions engineers make today (Sullivan et al., 2012). In the context of engineering economy, engineers make recommendations to work proposals and compare these alternatives based on several criterions. One such criterion is the...

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