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The Design of Mobile Control Car Security System (Electronics Project)

Support Team — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:34:42 +0000

The present car alarm systems are still of no match to the well-equipped thieves. It is just a matter of seconds to break through the system. This paper introduces and describes the design of mobile controlled car security system offering … Read more »

Matrimonial Web Application in ASP.Net (Computer Project)

Support Team — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:33:56 +0000

The main objective of Matrimonial Web Application is to provide Grooms and Brides with excellent matchmaking experience by exploring the opportunities and resources to meet true potential partner. Keeping our objective in mind, we have created a world renowned online … Read more »

Capital Budgeting and Initial Cash Outlay(ICO) Uncertainty (Management Project)

Support Team — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:32:05 +0000

According to recent surveys, most companies use discounted-cash-flow (DCF) methods to evaluate capital budgeting decisions. DCF methods typically assume that a project’s initial cash outlay (ICO) is known with certainty. However, many types of initial outlays have substantial uncertainty, especially … Read more »

Development of a CAD Model Simplification Framework for Finite Element Analysis (Mechanical Project)

Support Team — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:31:08 +0000

Analyzing complex 3D models using finite element analysis software requires suppressing features/parts that are not likely to influence the analysis results, but may significantly improve the computational performance both in terms of mesh size and mesh quality. The suppression step … Read more »

An Analysis of Success and Failure Factors for ERP Systems in Engineering and Construction Firms (Civil Project)

Support Team — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:30:15 +0000

Even though the use of ERP systems is growing and becoming more popular, these systems are still somewhat unfamiliar in the construction industry. Many engineering and construction firms know how beneficial ERP systems are, but they still hesitate to adopt … Read more »

Extended Split-Issue Mechanism in VLIW DSPs to Support SMT and Hardware-ISA Decoupling (Electronics Project)

Support Team — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:55:54 +0000

The use of VLIW architecture has become widespread in the DSP arena due to the combined benefits of simple hardware and instruction level parallelism extracted by the compiler. In an attempt to extract higher processing throughput we investigate simultaneous multithreading … Read more »

Dwarf: A Complete System for Analyzing High-Dimensional Data Sets (Computer Project)

Support Team — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:54:50 +0000

The need for data analysis by different industries, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing and financial services, has generated a flurry of research, highly sophisticated methods and commercial products. However, all of the current attempts are haunted by the so-called ‘high-dimensionality curse’ … Read more »

Understanding the Black Box in Strategic HRM Research from Resource-based and Social Exchange Perspectives (Management Project)

Support Team — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:53:59 +0000

In this project, I examine the specific mediating mechanisms through which High Performance Work Systems influence overall unit performance. In particular, I draw mainly on two theoretical perspectives, the resource-based view of the firm and behavioral perspective, to propose and … Read more »

Performance Investigation of CHP Equipment (Mechanical Project)

Support Team — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:52:08 +0000

The Cooling Heating & Power systems for Buildings (BCHP) are attracting more attention due to their advantages as compared to conventional energy systems. As a developing technology, there are still problems to be solved. Fuel flexibility and dynamic response between … Read more »

Characterization of Delayed Ettringite Formation in Maryland Bridges (Civil Project)

Support Team — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:51:15 +0000

The research investigated the significance of Delayed Ettringite Formation (DEF) presences in the Maryland Bridge Inventory. The objective of the research included investigating possible presence of DEF, correlations between the presence of DEF in cast-in-place concrete and moist map cracking, … Read more »

Towards Automatic Performance Tuning (Computer Project)

Support Team — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:42:53 +0000

When the computing environment becomes heterogeneous and applications become modular with reusable components, automatic performance tuning is needed for these applications to run well in different environments. We present the Active Harmony automated runtime tuning system and describe the interface … Read more »

Low Energy Wake-up Logic (Electronics Project)

Support Team — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:41:43 +0000

Wake-up logic is responsible for informing instructions in the Window that are waiting to execute, about the availability of their input operands. The conventional method of wake-up consumes a significant percentage of the Instruction Window energy. Reducing the wake-up energy … Read more »

Executive Information Search Within Top Management Teams and its Impact on Organizational Innovation (Management Project)

Support Team — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:40:18 +0000

The focus of this study is an examination of an important yet understudied managerial activity – that of information search. Information is an essential component to the functions of managers, and the way in which information is gathered should therefore … Read more »

Vehicle Handling, Stability and Bifurcaiton Analysis for Nonlinear Vehicle Models (Mechanical Project)

Support Team — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:39:08 +0000

Vehicle handling, stability, and bifurcation of equilibrium conditions were studied using a state vector approach. The research provided a framework for an improved method of vehicle handling assessment that included non-linear regions of performance and transient behavior. Vehicle models under … Read more »

Catalog of Material Properties for Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design (Civil Project)

Support Team — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:34:18 +0000

The new pavement design methodology is based on mechanistic-empirical principles that are expected to be used in parallel with and eventually replace the current empirical pavement design procedures. The new mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG) requires greater quantities and quality … Read more »

Nanoprocessors: Configurable Hardware Accelerators for Embedded Systems (Electronics Project)

Support Team — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:09:24 +0000

Today’s consumer market is driven by technology innovations. Many technologies that were not available a few years ago are quickly being adopted into common use. Equipment for these services requires microprocessors inside and can be regarded as embedded systems. Embedded … Read more »

Simple Search Engine in JAVA Servlets (Computer Project)

Support Team — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:09:18 +0000

This is a simple search engine developed in JAVA Servlets. Installation Instruction: Download and unzip the file into your favorite directory. Create a database on your MySQL Server. Run all the queries from the source.txt file. Compile search.java file and … Read more »

Performance tip-sharing: When, and how, do employees share their insights? (Management Project)

Support Team — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:09:15 +0000

The purpose of my project is to expand understanding about when, and how, employees share performance-tips– that is, when employees will more frequently disclose to their colleagues (in organizationally-targeted or coworker-targeted ways) the new ideas that they have discovered in … Read more »

Development of a Simulation and Optimization Tool for Heat Exchanger Design (Mechanical Project)

Support Team — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:09:07 +0000

Heat exchangers have been used extensively and play an important role in the capital cost, energy efficiency and physical size of refrigeration and air conditioning systems. In this project, a simulation and optimization tool to improve effectiveness and efficiency in … Read more »

Capacity of Frozen Soil for Shallow Tunnel Pre-Support Underneath a Building Founded on Wooden Piles (Civil Project)

Support Team — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:09:01 +0000

The ever-increasing density of urban environments poses new challenges to tunneling for transit projects. Tunneling methods are called for that meet these challenges while minimizing the impact on every day routines. With only a few exceptions, urban tunneling is confronted … Read more »