ESM Student Projects

UAF Student Projects

The following is a partial list of projects completed in the recent past by UAF students in fulfillment of the requirements for ESM 684-ESM Project.

• A Data Collection & Analysis System for Houses Built on Permafrost
• A Distributed Data Processing Implementation Strategy for the Chatham Area, Tongass National Forest
• A Linear Programming Method for the Optimal Assignment of United States Air Force KC-135 Tanker Aircraft to Forward Operating Locations
• A Management Control System for Remote Regions Projects: An ILS Model Network, Logistics Information System and Support Information Package for Use by the Polar Ice Coring Office
• A Project Plan For The Galbraith Lake Campground
• A Reevaluation of Alaska Policy Prohibiting the Use of Explosives in the Marine Environment: A consideration of whether explosives should be allowed in the transition zone
• A Time Management Analysis of the City of Fairbanks Engineering Division
• A Total Quality Management Approach to the Reduction of Outage Durations at an Electric Utility
• A Traffic Flow Analysis of the Eielson Air Force Base: Base Exchange/Commissary Mall Parking Lot
• A Waiting Line Study of a Multi-Channel Bank Drive-Up System
• A Feasibility Study for Medical Electronic Service
• Achieving Quality Architectural/Engineering Services Through Quality Management
• Alaska Construction Contract Law
• Alaska Pavement Inventory Used in a Priority Programming System
• Alaskan Placer Mining Reclamation, Tasks and Costing Analysis
• Allocating Alaska's Limited Resources: The Need for a Quantified Decision Method for University of Alaska Capital Project Planning
• Alternative Methods of Financing Public Works
• An Analysis of Supplying Natural Gas to Fairbanks
• An Application of Project Management: Developing a Forecast System
• An Economic Analysis of the Small Unit Support Vehicle
• An Economic Feasibility Study of Export of Beneficiated Coal from Usibelli Coal Mine to Korea
• An Evaluation of Traffic Simulation for Analyzing Routing Alternatives
• An Inquiry into the Development and Preparation of Construction Contract Documents and Procedures
• An Investigation into the use of a Thermostatic Control Device to Control Auxiliary Heating Equipment on Vehicles
• ANWR's National Petroleum Reserve: Explore It Before Locking The Door
• Business Planning for Design Firms
• Computer Simulation of Battery Production Operations for Analyzing Process Alternatives
• Computer Software Reliability Management (from a digital hardware perspective).
• Computerized Control Algorithms for Mixed Air Control of Commercial Buildings Air Handling Equipment
• Correction of Axle Undercounting in Pneumatic Tube Traffic Surveys: A Simulation Approach
• Cost Analysis of Hazardous Waste Incineration in Alaska.
• Crisis Management - A Future Management Technique for Engineers
• Critical Path Management in the Alaskan Construction Industry
• Development and Implementation of Computer-Assisted Job Costing Systems
• Differing Site Condition Clauses - A Comparison of Clauses Used By Various Public and Private Agencies
• Economic Analysis of the Active Solar Heating Alternatives in Alaskan New Home Construction
• Economic Life of Trans Alaska Pipeline System
• Eielson AFB General Plan and GIS Implementation Plan
• Electric Utility Industry Regulation and Regulatory Reform
• Emergency Building Egress for the Mobility Impaired
• Engineering and Economics Analysis
• Environmental Mitigation and Regulation Compliance on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
• Evaluation of Feasibility and Economic Viability of Multiple Step Upgrade of Interior Alaska Hardwoods
• Experimental Simulation for Project Management
• Exploring and Implementing Job Order Contracting
• Facility Records Management
• Feasibility Analysis of an Alpine Ski Resort on Moose Mountain, Fairbanks, Alaska
• Feasibility of Residential Photovoltaics in Alaska
• Feasibility Study for Satellite Tracking Station at Fairbanks, Alaska, December 1994.
• Fort Wainwright Radiation Safety Program Standard Operating Procedure and Implementation
• Improving Pulp Mill Effluent: An Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits
• Investigation of the Inventory System of a Sports Equipment Sales Store
• Land Use Management and Planning Tool for Transportation Systems
• Life Cycle Cost Bidding Legal Aspects, Methodology and Software - A Project for Alaska DOT&PF
• Management Guidance for Quality Civil Engineering Operations
• Managing High Potential Well Damages
• Methodology Improvements in U.S. Army Test Procedures for Determining Insulative Properties of Clothing for Arctic Tests
• Northern Operations Handbook for the Junior Military Engineer
• Optimizing Moves For Renovation Projects At Remote Locations
• Petroleum Development Laboratory, an EOR Research Center in Alaska
• Project Controls: What is Really Used?
• Project Jukebox: Using Modern Technology to Preserve Endangered Recordings
• Project Management Approach: An Effective Project Team
• Proposal for a UAF Field Safety Procedures Manual
• Public Construction Claim Settlement Methodologies and Philosophies - Recommendations for Improvement
• Rapid Deployment: An Exercise in Airframe Minimization
• Rehabilitation of Pavements
• Selection of Combustion Air Handling Equipment for Gas Turbine Installation in the Arctic Environment Using Life Cycle Costing Analysis
• Technical Trade Between Alaska and the Soviet Union
• The Archive Future of the Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar Facility
• The Barber Shop: An Analysis of Ft. Wainwright's Barber Shop using Queuing Theory to Predict the Optimum Time of Expansion
• The Battle for North Norway and the A-10, May 1986.
• The Cost of Quality Designs by Open-End Consultants for Air Force Facilities, May 1989.
• The Development of the A-10 Flying Hour Program for Fiscal Year 1986
• The Economic Feasibility of a Satellite Repair Company
• The Feasibility of a Local Area Network (LAN) for the DOTY, Cobra Eye Training Flight, Office 24 SRS - Eielson AFB
• The Feasibility of an Additional Ice Skating Facility in the Fairbanks North Star Borough
• The Introduction of Micro-computers into Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Project Field Offices
• Towards a Computer-Based Bibliography for Cold Weather Construction Managers
• Traffic Control Plan, Procedures and Methodologies: South Cushman Street
• Transitioning the Russian Space Program into the Commercial Launch Market
• Two-year Construction Work Plan and the Rural Electrification Administration Loan Process
• Valdez Solar Dome Softball Stadium, Conceptual Study
• Water Quality and Gold Recovery Investigations at Gold Dust Mine, Circle Mining District, Alaska
• What is the B-2 Really Worth?
• Winter Highway Construction
• Wolf-Moose Management in Alaska: A Scientific Approach

National Technological University Student Projects

The following is a partial list of projects completed in the recent past by National Technological University students in fulfillment of the requirements for ESM684/MB780-G-Capstone Project under the auspices of the UAF program:

• 895 Printer Development and Customer Problem Resolution
• A Client Server Network Simulation Model
• A Customized Manufacturing Quote Method for Polybent Products
• A Guide to the Computer Aided Design System Upgrade Procurement Process
• A Plan for an Ashland Electrical Power Distribution Study
• A Project Management System for Gallium Arsenic Application Specific Integrated Circuits
• Accelerating the Product Development Cycle
• Adaptation of Large Project Management Procedures for Small Projects
• Addressing the Need for Growth Transmission Line Testing in the Cellular Communications Industry
• Addressing the Software Crisis using Object-Oriented Technology
• An Engineering Management Analysis of the Trident II MK6 Guidance System Program
• An Engineering Study for Modernization of a Five Stand Tandem Cold Mill
• Bare Copper Printed Circuit Board Processes (Development and Introduction Within Digital
• Blackbird Application Development Process
• Budget, Staffing and Equipment Needs for the Sensitometric Testing of Graphic Films in Kodak Park
• Capacity Planning system: Machine Placement Analysis
• Capital Budgeting of Cross-Connect Systems and Their Economically Optimized Deployment in a Communications Network
• Client/Server Database application Development Accelerators: Fact or Fiction?
• Customizing the Installation of CQI Techniques to Existing Organizations
• Design Management
• Designing Products for Maintainability
• Development of a Mold Management Systems
• Development of a Quality Plan for a Writable CD Production Station
• The Development of a Total Quality Management System for a Semi-Conductor Failure Analysis Operation
• Economic Application of Software Quality Assurance Methods to Small Computing Projects
• The Effect of Career plateauing on Motivation in the Engineering Environment
• Emerging Technology Forecast and Assessment: U.S. Digital Cellular Technology
• Engineering Management 2000: How the Trends of the 1990’s will Change the Role of the Engineering Manager in the 21st Century
• Equipment Reliability Program in the Plant Maintenance Division
• Establishing a Predictive Maintenance Program in a Manufacturing Facility
• Evaluation of the Development and Implementation of a New Engineering Organization
• Feasibility Study of a Second AJAC Enduferator Production Plant
• Feasibility Study of Recycling at Milliken Chemical Dewey Plant
• Financial Forecasting using Neural Networks
• Guesstimating to Estimating: Predictive Costing at the Concept Stage of Product Development
• Increasing Productivity of a Copier Service Business Utilizing The Field Data Available
• Information Systems Planning in a Cost Plus, Government Owned, Contractor Operated Environment
• International Procurement
• Inventory Analysis for Heluva Good Cheese Inc. Horseradish Division
• LAMANNA, GINA M., Improved Methods of Web Cleaning: Analysis of Cost and Benefit, Spring 1994.
• Lighting and Exhaust System Energy Reduction
• The Management of Software Releases in a Networked Manufacturing EnvironmentMotivating Industrial Staff in an Internal Supplier Facility: A Case Study of the Plastics Business Center of Xerox Corporation
• Motivational Techniques for Technical Professionals
• Plan for Qualification of Laser Diode for Use in Optical Storage Device
• Practical Quantitative Methods for Software Development Process Management
• Predicting Cost of New Equipment from a Design Concept.
• Predicting the Costs and Benefits of Designing Computer Products for Mixed Model Production
• Project Management Simulator: Upgrade and Support of Heterogeneous Computer Platforms
• Quality Management, A Process Approach
• Reducing Schedule Slip in Product Development Projects to Increase Revenues
• Short Case Names Fabrication: A Case Study of Project Management Techniques
• Software Globalization: Opportunity or Necessity
• Software Project Communication Guidelines: Interface between Marketing and Development
• Statistical Process Control in a Professional Facilities Engineering Organization
• Strategic Sourcing: A Make or Buy .Tool for Competitive Manufacturers
• Strategy Support Systems: The Integration of Computer and Strategy Development Through Implementation
• Survival of Service Support Organization In a Large Manufacturing Company in Today’s Competitive Environment
• Telecommunications Interoperability in the Post Divestiture Era
• Three Powerful Engineering Management Tools for Efficient Engineering Project Management in an R&D Environment of a High-Tech Firm: ICAF, WBS, and CPM.
• TQM Implementation and People Involvement Process in HVIC
• Using Statistical Analysis of Forecast Error to Reduce Safety Stock Inventories

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Last updated May 18, 2001

For more information, please contact:

Robert A. Perkins, P.E., Program Coordinator